Enhancing L2 Writing through Scaffolding Concept: A Study With Reference To Rural Students in a Government College of Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu

This paper attempts to highlight the importance of Scaffolding concept in L2 writing. As writing requires complex psycholinguistic skills it is necessary study writing to come out with new insights. A number of studies have highlighted the importance of learner scaffolding. This paper tries to answer the following research question. How does scaffolding concept in L2 writing, enhance the writing ability of the target group of learners?It touches upon a number factors that affect L2 writing. Besides, the paper makes use of scaffolding frame work with regard to four major components namely, content knowledge, context knowledge, process knowledge and linguistic knowledge and finally it reveals the indispensable role of scaffolding framework in L2 writing context.