By developing their writing skills early, young learners are making a valuable investment for their future studies. Writing gives learners the opportunity to find ways of expressing their ideas in a foreign language. Writing gives learners the opportunity to try out the language with plenty of thinking time. A learner's writing gives the teacher a good opportunity to diagnose grammar and vocabulary problems and to identify progress. Writing allows learners to practise new structures in an extended context.
Writing can provide more variety in classwork.
In many classes, attention to writing is very limited. The teacher gives the learner a title or a topic. The learner produces a text, and the teacher marks the grammar, vocabulary, and spelling mistakes in it. Writing is then merely a testing tool. This is perhaps the reason for writing's 'bad reputation' which we mentioned earlier.