Using Short Stories to Motivate Intermediate EFL Learners in Essay Writing at Vietnam Centre Point

Abstract

Among four main skills of English learning, writing is mostly considered to be the hardest skill. Whilst, writing is one of the productive skills, which is a special kind of communication, providing learners chances to produce their feelings, their ideas and their learned knowledge on the visual words. Even so, most of the English learners in Vietnam have experienced conventional and unsuitable teaching styles during their period time of studying, and this drives them to the demotivation of cultivating the target language and to the lack of critical thinking to write. Moreover, materials that teachers have used in the classes might be a complex matter since the learners are forced to study repeated topics and familiar ways of doing exercises in most of their time of practicing writing. It means that leaners are understandably not given enough vacancies of their critical thinking in each learning product as well as they would lack the inspiration for reading books. Additionally, the aims of learning or teaching English language are to build the learners to be competent communicators and users of this language. That path of learning and teaching should highlightthe higher values of teaching which are compassion, attitude, kindness exploited inside learners‟ characteristics.