Fruitful Teaching Practices to Enhance the Writing skills in English of the Lateral Entry Engineering Students

Writing is the most powerful of LSRW skills as it is preserved as records and documents for the future generation. Professionals like engineers have to be competent in written English without which they would be unsuccessful in their career. Lateral entry engineering students require special attention because their exposure to written English is so poor. Appropriate teaching methodologies and practices are required to improve their written communication. Listening and reading activities acclimatises the students to the English atmosphere. Improving the vocabulary through various activities prepares them better for the task of developing the written communication. Task- based language teaching, guiding in letter writing practice, free writing, cloze testing, hints developing, rearranging the jumbled sentences, object description and peer learning are some of the useful teaching practices that would make them better professionals.