摘要：This is a case study approach where three learners and an English teacher from a secondary school were involved. In this study, the effect of teacher's assistance in developing rural learners’ skills in writing had been looked into depth through five-months of observation at one of the rural area schools in Malaysia. Findings showed that these learners improved in terms of vocabularies when the teacher provided interactive approach via writing process approach. Three aspects were identified as important in the writing process which were teacher's questioning, commenting and giving clues technique in improving the learners’ writing skills. In the usual practice, the teacher will drill the learners in writing where the learners are needed to do as many essay writing exercises as possible to prepare them for major examination. These findings thus has called for Malaysian English teachers to reconsider their approach which is more exam-oriented and focused more on the process itself in teaching English language.
关键词：Writing skill;Malaysian rural learners;writing process approach ;
