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Chen, Yuan-Shan; Su, Shao-Wen – ELT Journal, 2012
This study utilizes a pre-test/post-test assessment to investigate the instructional efficacy of a genre-based approach to teaching summary writing. Forty-one EFL university students in Taiwan were asked before and after the instruction to summarize a simplified version of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in a maximum of 500 words. All the students'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Teaching Methods, Second Language Instruction
Tarrayo, Veronico N. – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2011
This paper looked into the interplay between language and culture based on the metatext categories utilized by the writers in three speech communities: Philippines, Iran, and Taiwan. Specifically, it answered the following subproblems: (1) What metatext categories exist in the results-and-discussion section of ESL/EFL research articles written in…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning