Second language writing skills
Suggestions and solutions
Improve teaching methods
Conscious and incidental vocabulary teaching
Increase the number of writing practice
Increase the number of reading practice
Active and experential learning to increase motivation and interest
Actitvities to promote creativity and critical thinking
Cooperative learning
Incorporate technologies
Manipulative activities
Innovative methods
Common problems and difficulties
"Personal" problems
Reliance on the first language
Low motivation
Lack of ideas
"Technic" problems
Weak structure organization
Use of connectors and cohesive devices
Lack of coherence
Difficulties on syntax: sentence construction
Grammar mistakes
Lack of vocabulary knowledge
