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New Website Address

www.englishwritingclub.en.ma

    This website is created to be the online version of the school English magazine that is dedicated to the development of students' writing and reading skills. Additionally, the magazine has as an objective fostering students' love and interest in the English language.
    The website is now in the course of being created. Copies of all the issues are now all published and will soon be made available for downloading in pdf, word, and html formats. As for this year's fifth issue, it is now online. STAY IN TOUCH!
    Visit us soon to see the fruit of a seven-year experience. Your feedback is highly welcomed.

It is a great pleasure to bring out to light the English Writing Club magazine that relies mainly on the genuine contributions of the students of English in High School. The reasons behind this initiative were multiple and various. The primary guiding goal, however, was to provide students with a sort of free forum where they can express themselves in a language which is not theirs, exchange ideas and opinions about a variety of topics and issues, etc, and overall to see in tangible terms that they can write English.

The first and second issues were met with wide acceptance and solid encouragement inside and outside the school. The magazine also fulfilled its main objectives and exceeded all the set expectations. First, immediately after the publication of the two issues and the beginning of years to follow, students’ interest and motivation towards the English Language and the English culture have increased noticeably. Second, a major number of the last two years’ baccalaureate participants have opted for their university studies to major in English. Comparably, this year’s issue has witnessed a so heavier downpour of contributions from students that for purposes of quality writing and subject importance a sort of rigorous standards had to be set.

The third issue was a coronation of the previous issues in that it received the best prize of the regional school magazine plus a letter of praise from the delegate’s of Taroudant.

As an extracurricular support and supplement, as it were, the magazine draws essentially on literacy skills, namely reading and writing. As for reading, students were provided with a collection of novels, novelettes, short stories, articles, and other books to read and write up a synthetic synopsis of the content for the magazine. This goal-oriented home reading helps students enrich and consolidate their vocabulary stock and expressional style. It also exposes the students to the various grammatical intricacies of the language.

Regarding writing, which is considered as a nightmarish experience that discourages and de-motivates most students, I see it fit to recommend the process approach that is based on a step-by-step progress. Students were asked to pre-write, write, and re-write before the final draft to develop the skills and the confidence requisite for effective writing. Besides, all the students were motivated and invited to contribute freely with whatever they want to write about. Knowing that their written productions appended with their names and photos would be published in the school English magazine was a strong motivation-boosting factor for them all and would doubtlessly give them a deep sense of achievement.

The Editor