You say "handwriting", so I am assuming that you are referring to students' cursive style or penmanship rather than expressing themselves in idiomatic English. Alas, with the ubiquity of keyboard writing, students are no longer drilled in the manual exercises (loops, curls, curves) once used at the beginning of learning cursive writing, and thus many students haven't developed more general finger dexterity either (some teens would have difficulty threading a needle).

I don't know which model is used for cursive writing in your country. In my day we we were taught the Palmer cursive style, which is not only elegant but designed for speed. Nowadays, more and more students are taught a style which is much like printing except with the letters connected; that is less of a transition from the printing learned in primary school and so requires less time to master, but it is not designed for speed, so when students are in a hurry on an exam readability suffers. I agree with Elhadi I. Dekam that practice is needed; perhaps frequent short in-class writing exercises, with some monitoring to improve the readability?

BTW, this is the Palmer method, which I employ with a few minor modifications:

• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Palmer_Method_alphabet.jpg
• http://www.educationalfontware.com/efi%20photoshop%20pngs/Palmer.png
• https://palmermethod.com/drills/

Mostly, it comes from the lack of practices !!!

First ,Students lack of confidence to use English because they are afraid of mistakes and shy feeling.

Secondly, Maybe the curriculum is inappropriate for helping students to improve their English proficiency.

Third, English language is difficult to learn due to students are not well-motivated, encouraged and gained learning strategy. Furthermore, students do not practice speaking English with English native speakers.

Solutions :

1- ENCOURAGE GOOD WRITING .

2- A LOT OF PRACTICE EQUALS BETTER PERFORMANCE.

3- PROVIDE INSTRUCTIONS THROUGHOUT THE WRITING PROCESS .

4- HAVE YOUR STUDENTS READ A LOT .

You say "handwriting", so I am assuming that you are referring to students' cursive style or penmanship rather than expressing themselves in idiomatic English. Alas, with the ubiquity of keyboard writing, students are no longer drilled in the manual exercises (loops, curls, curves) once used at the beginning of learning cursive writing, and thus many students haven't developed more general finger dexterity either (some teens would have difficulty threading a needle).

I don't know which model is used for cursive writing in your country. In my day we we were taught the Palmer cursive style, which is not only elegant but designed for speed. Nowadays, more and more students are taught a style which is much like printing except with the letters connected; that is less of a transition from the printing learned in primary school and so requires less time to master, but it is not designed for speed, so when students are in a hurry on an exam readability suffers. I agree with Elhadi I. Dekam that practice is needed; perhaps frequent short in-class writing exercises, with some monitoring to improve the readability?

BTW, this is the Palmer method, which I employ with a few minor modifications:

• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Palmer_Method_alphabet.jpg
• http://www.educationalfontware.com/efi%20photoshop%20pngs/Palmer.png
• https://palmermethod.com/drills/

I agree with Karl that the new skills of "electronic" handwriting is superior currently,