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Pervaiz Yaseeni; Fahim Rahimi; Fareed Sahil – Journal of Research Initiatives, 2024
Academic writing is a salient skill for medical students all over the world. Academic writing starts with composing effective paragraphs, laying the foundation for students' advancement in writing during college. This study investigated common mistakes in English paragraph writing committed by the first-year medical students of the Medicine…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Medical Students, Paragraph Composition, Scores
Yu, Shuying – English Language Teaching, 2022
People frequently struggle with comprehending the text they read and require more intensive support to develop proficiency in reading comprehension. Some find it perplexing observing all the elements and constituents of the paragraph theory. Good readers, however, can understand what a paragraph is by studying the conjunction relationships between…
Descriptors: Paragraph Composition, Reading Comprehension, Text Structure, Form Classes (Languages)
He, Yuemin; Gaiser, Catherine Megliola – Inquiry: The Journal of the Virginia Community Colleges, 2023
The five-paragraph essay is highly controversial, and yet it has also been a useful format for composition. In this essay we explain why, despite its limits, students need to go along with the format to make what use and get what advantage of it. We then demonstrate that valuing the philosophical, historical, cultural, and educational backgrounds…
Descriptors: Essays, Writing Assignments, Culturally Relevant Education, Asian American Students
Umbreen Tariq – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2025
Purpose: This study aims to explore computer-assisted language learning (CALL) activities to improve the English essay writing of Pakistani university students. It highlights the role of CALL in the language proficiency model cognitive academic language proficiency (CALP), which can enable second language learners to engage in more critical…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Jama, Itithaz – International Education Studies, 2022
This research focused on the common errors that EFL learners included in their writing. The frequent errors that the study focused on were at the micro level, specifically the structures that related to gerund and infinitive forms. The participants were selected from the English language department at one of the Saudi universities. They were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Error Patterns
Tiryaki, Esra Nur; Bi?can, Gülsat – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2021
It is observed that individuals have problems in written expression in the Turkish education system, and a permanent solution can not be developed to solve these problems. Therefore, the primary objective of this research is to determine the problems of prospective Turkish teachers in paragraph creation. This research was carried out in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Writing Skills, Paragraph Composition
Firstya Evi Dianastiti; Sarwiji Suwandi; Budhi Setiawan – International Journal of Language Education, 2024
The purpose of this research is to describe the challenges and factors causing difficulties of deaf students in mastering writing skills at inclusive universities in Indonesia. This research is focused in Central Java province because of the more universities are considered as inclusive universities. This research was conducted in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Barriers, Deafness, Writing Skills
Patarapongsanti, Ampika; Thongsan, Nuchsara C.; Sukrutrit, Praweerata; Para, Chamnan; Saphanuchart, Nawarat – English Language Teaching, 2022
Effective written communication is not only a crucial skill for academic achievement but also for business context as it could lead to individual professional career success and profitable accomplishment. To achieve these goals requires concise and correct communication. This study, therefore, aims to explore the most frequently-made errors by 30…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Karafil, Burcu; Oguz, Aytunga – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2022
In this study, it was aimed to develop a scale to determine English paragraph writing self-efficacy beliefs of university students. The scale was developed in three stages. In the first stage, literature review was conducted and expert opinions were taken. A trial form consisting of 45 items in Likerttype was prepared. Moreover, a pilot study was…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Paragraph Composition, Self Efficacy
Allagui, Besma – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2021
Augmented reality (AR) is a new technology that consists in mixing virtual and real information. Although several studies have assessed the use of AR in various educational contexts, few contributions have examined its potential impact on students' writing performance. The current study evaluates the use of AR in a university setting by comparing…
Descriptors: Paragraph Composition, Writing Skills, Writing Attitudes, Writing Instruction
Aichele, Thorsten; Bannert, Maria – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2019
Hypertext comprehension often suffers from inadequate representation of the text's structure. Explication of the local paragraph macrostructure within each node might help to overcome this obstacle. As headings show several deficits, especially in digital text, marginalia are considered a promising alternative in signaling hypertext structure as…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Sentences, Hypermedia, Undergraduate Students
Thomas, Anuja M.; McCarthy, Philip M.; Ahmed, Khawlah; Kaddoura, Noor W.; Duran, Nicholas D. – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2022
Paragraph structure has been identified as consisting of three distinct parts, which are the topic sentence, supporting sentences, and a paragraph ending sentence. Although topic sentences have been widely researched, similar consideration for paragraph endings has been less forthcoming. This discrepancy may be problematic as research suggests…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Paragraph Composition, Text Structure, Models
Mitchell, Thomas D.; Pessoa, Silvia; Gómez-Laich, María Pía; Maune, Michael – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2021
This study reports on student writing outcomes from a two-year interdisciplinary collaboration between applied linguists (the authors) and an organizational behavior (OB) professor. We used an ethnographic language-focused approach to make explicit the linguistic features of the case analysis genre at an American university in the Middle East. We…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), College Students, Applied Linguistics, Heuristics
Sheila Windle; Leanne Johnny; Valerie Smith – TESL Canada Journal, 2024
This article reports the findings of a small-scale qualitative study aimed at exploring the academic experiences of college students (n = 11) who had previously engaged in the EAP program at a mid-sized college in Ontario. The primary objective was to unveil student perspectives on the effectiveness of the EAP writing program and to determine…
Descriptors: College Programs, English for Academic Purposes, Writing Instruction, College Students
Teshome Bekele Sime; Mulu Geta Gencha; Taye Gebremariam Olamo – Cogent Education, 2024
This study focused on paragraph writing abilities as it is a fundamental skill for academic and professional success. Improving paragraph writing lays the groundwork for addressing advanced writing tasks and is vital for effective global communication in English. The objective of this study was, therefore, to examine effects of blended instruction…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Paragraph Composition, Writing Skills, English (Second Language)