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Mallahi, Omid – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2022
The present study intended to investigate the summary writing strategy use and writing quality of 57 Iranian EFL learners in an academic setting. As for collecting the required data, the students (1) completed an expository essay (as a measure of their writing competence), (2) summarized the literature review section of a research paper (as a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Strategies, Writing (Composition), English (Second Language)
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Masumeh Rahimivand; Saeideh Ahangari; Nasrin Hadidi Tamjid – Language Testing in Asia, 2025
Writing comprehensibly, dynamically, and persuasively in a foreign language is a significant challenge for learners. Written communication assesses language and writing progress for various summative and developmental goals. Scenario-based assessment (SBA), as one of the methodologies of classroom-based assessment (CBA), aims to elicit both…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Derakhshan, Ali; Karimian Shirejini, Roghayeh – SAGE Open, 2020
Inasmuch as the fact that writing is a cognitively demanding task and as a step toward overcoming some of the barriers English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners face during writing performance, this study attempted to investigate Iranian EFL learners' perceptions toward the most common writing difficulties. To this end, 120 Iranian EFL learners…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Writing Difficulties
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Hosseinpur, Rasoul Mohammad; Pour, Hossein Hosseini – TESL-EJ, 2022
A compelling body of evidence suggests that EFL students have problem with logical connectors' appropriate use in writing. This study explored Iranian EFL students' adversative connectors use in their essay writing course. To this end, a Learner Corpus of 60393 words consisting of 156 essays was compiled. LOCNESS was chosen as the criterion…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Native Language
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Khonamri, Fatemeh; Ahmadi, Faegheh; Pavlikova, Martina; Petrikovicova, Lucia – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2020
Recent research in SLA indicates that collocations are an indispensable aspect of language learning. Its importance in learners' writing ability is, therefore, undeniable. Thus, the present study attempted to explore the effect of explicit teaching of collocations on learners' awareness and use of them in their writing. It differed from previous…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Phrase Structure, Metalinguistics, Teaching Methods
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Rahimi, Muhammad – Language Teaching Research, 2019
The impacts of task characteristics on second language (L2) writing require further exploration. This study examined the effects of increasing task complexity on L2 argumentative writing. Upper-intermediate L2 learners performed two writing tasks with varying degrees of complexity in relation to the number of elements and the degree of reasoning.…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Accuracy