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Correa, Doris; Domínguez, Camilo – HOW, 2014
Traditionally, at universities, English as a foreign language instructors have used a series of approaches to teach students how to write academic texts in English from both teacher preparation and regular programs. In spite of this, students continue to have problems writing the academic texts required of them in the different courses. Concerned…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Soven, Margot – 1979
Even at an early age, children are guided by their intuitions as they write. Intuitions are the culmination of perceptions that have been internalized and synthesized into patterns. Furthermore, they take time to develop. Consequently, if systematic instruction is to play a part in the formation of intuitions about written language then it must…
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Processing, Paragraph Composition
Fahnestock, Jeanne – 1981
Helping students understand coherence in terms of the lexical ties and semantic relations possible between clauses and sentences formalizes an area of writing instruction that has been somewhat vague before and makes the process of creating a coherent paragraph less mysterious. Many students do not have the intuitive knowledge base for absorbing…
Descriptors: Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), College English, Connected Discourse