ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS’ ATTITUDES TOWARDS WRITING IN THE EARLY GRADES IN SERBIA
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The aim of this paper is to determine the attitudes of English language teachers who teach in younger grades of elementary school towards the teaching of writing. The research was carried out in the period from June to July 2023 on a convenient sample comprising 74 teachers working in Serbia. Only those teachers who teach or have taught English in younger grades of primary school participated in the research. The teachers took part in an online questionnaire. The research results show that the current teaching practice does not neglect writing in the first two grades and that writing activities are incorporated into lesson plans even though writing is not foreseen by the curriculum. At the end of the paper, implications for teaching are presented, suggesting a new methodological approach as well as redefining syllabi.
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