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Kumar, Tribhuwan – TESOL International Journal, 2020
This research is based on the difficulties and effectiveness of creative writing in language learning. Creative writing is the art of sorts, the art of making things up. It is writing done in a way that is not academic or technical but still attracts an audience. Nowadays, there is too much attention of teachers is on making students be a creative…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Creative Writing, Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness
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Gezmis, Nejla – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2020
The purpose of this study is to identify in which stage/stages of the Process Writing Approach students have difficulties most. This posttest-experimental study was applied to the 50 first-year students studying English Translation and Interpreting. The students were expected to produce an essay with the help of the Process Writing Approach at the…
Descriptors: Process Approach (Writing), Undergraduate Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Ghorbanchian, Elahe; Youhanaee, Manijeh; Amirian, Zahra – English Language Teaching, 2019
Cognitive complexity is traditionally used for describing human cognition along a simplicity-complexity axis in tests like TOFEL IBT and GRE where text creation and rhetorical organization are quintessentially important. Accordingly, this study sought to investigate the impact of mentor text modelling on cognitive complexity of academic writing…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Liaghat, Farahnaz; Biria, Reza – International Journal of Instruction, 2018
This study aimed at exploring the impact of mentor text modelling on Iranian English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners' accuracy and fluency in writing tasks with different cognitive complexity in comparison with two conventional approaches to teaching writing; namely, process-based and product-based approaches. To this end, 60 Iranian EFL…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Teaching Methods, Writing Instruction
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Al-Hammadi, Fatima; Sidek, Harison Mohd – International Education Studies, 2015
Academic writing is perhaps the most important skill required in higher education learning for the purposes of academic communication, academic performance, as well as academic achievement and success. However, many studies carried out in an EFL context showed that the majority of students face difficulties and challenges in acquiring effective…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing Skills, Writing Across the Curriculum, Secondary School Curriculum
Lee, Chien-Ching; Bopry, Jeannette; Hedberg, John – ALT-J: Research in Learning Technology, 2007
This study looks at a specific application of Ainsworth's conceptual framework for learning with multiple representations in the context of using multiple sequential graphic organizers that are student-generated for a process-writing task. Process writing refers to writing that consists of multiple drafts. It may be a process of re-writing without…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Concept Mapping, Writing Ability, Cognitive Processes
Tao, Pauline; And Others – 1990
This book consists of a collection of stories written by adults who attend a bilingual ESL (English as a Second Language) program co-sponsored by the Toronto Board of Education and Chinese Information and Community Services. All the writings deal with Chinese culture but the book may be used by people of diverse backgrounds and of varying levels…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Chinese Culture, Cultural Enrichment