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Üstün, Bilal – English Language Teaching, 2021
This study set out to examine the writing skill self-efficacy of students studying at English and German Language Teaching Departments in terms of various variables. Survey model, one of the quantitative research methods, was preferred. Participants who study at English and German Language Teaching Departments at a university in Turkey were the…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Ren, Junhong – English Language Teaching, 2017
College English writing instruction has been a prominent research area in EFL field in mainland China. This paper has continued the focus by exploring a seemingly effective way for college English writing instruction in China--teaching writing based on reading on the basis of the "output-driven, input-enabled" hypothesis. This hypothesis…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Instruction, Nonmajors, English (Second Language)
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Barnawi, Osman Z. – English Language Teaching, 2011
Although the concepts of critical thinking and self-voice have been extensively discussed in a second language writing, little attention has been given, on the pedagogical level, to critical thinking and self-voice in college EFL writing instruction. To fill such a void, this paper attempts to propose some pedagogical tasks namely: persuasive…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Critical Thinking
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Cao, Linying – English Language Teaching, 2012
In this study the author draws on Jane Willis' TBL framework and examines its effects on the improvement of EFL learners' writing competence when such a framework is applied to college writing classrooms in Chinese EFL settings, and thus tentatively explores the feasibility of the task-based approach to the teaching of EFL writing. Results of this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Feasibility Studies
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Liu, Xiaojuan – English Language Teaching, 2010
The practical writing course aims at helping students have a comprehensive understanding of writing subjects and improve their abilities of analyzing and understanding texts. This paper has explored how writing textbooks are used in the writing course and pointed out that the aim should be to help students improve their ability of analysis and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Majors (Students), English (Second Language), College Second Language Programs
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Ezza, El-Sadig – English Language Teaching, 2010
There is a general belief among researchers and speakers at conferences and symposia that Arab EFL Learners are primarily responsible for their weak writing performance. Educational policies usually evade criticism. This study is an attempt to show that educational policies can have their role in the learner's writing problems. Viz. it posits that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning