Document Type : Research Paper

Author

• Ali Fatemi Manesh

Lecturer at the Language and Islamic Education Center of Al-Mustafa (PBUH) Al-Alamiya University, Qom, Iran

Abstract

Teaching "writing" is one of the important skills that can be called as the first human efforts to teach "language". The skill of "writing", among the language skills, is one of the serious concerns in education and requires attention to the needs of the audience during education and writing requirements. One of the important Persian language teaching centers is Al-Mustafa Al-Alamiya University, where non-Iranian language learners enter the center to acquire Islamic knowledge and after passing the Persian language, they study in specialized fields. Since most of the language learners have to continue the educational process in Persian while attending Al-Mustafa University, in this research, the researcher aims to discern the strengths and weaknesses of the writing teaching method through a case study of writing teaching methods in the Islamic Language and Education Center. To this end, 30 writing classes for non-Persian speakers were examined in person and through interviews with professors. The method of analyzing the classes is based on Cunningworth's (1995) approach, which is a descriptive approach and attempts to determine the status and method of a book from an educational perspective by posing several questions and answering them. After analyzing the data by means of SPSS software, the results showed that the teachers generally teach in a traditional and product-oriented way in the writing class, the needs of the language learners are not seriously taken into account, and no written or teacher-made content is presented in the class. The emphasis of language teachers is mostly on correcting writing and not teaching writing. Due to this reason, grammar and language knowledge are the priority of education.

Keywords

• writing skill
• case study
• teaching method
• Cunningworth's approach
• Persian language teaching center of Al-Mahdi School