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Devotha Msuya; Jafari Abdala – Discover Education, 2025
This study investigated teachers' classroom practices in teaching English writing skills through competence-based language teaching among secondary students in the Mtama district. It aimed to identify teachers' instructional strategies and explore the challenges faced in ordinary-level classrooms. Employing a qualitative case study design, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Secondary School Students
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Owusu, Edward – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2020
There are a number of functions paragraphs play in discourse studies. For example, it encourages a writer to give adequate focus to the various aspects of his or her message; and it facilitates the identification of one idea in an essay to another idea. Some classical second language writers (for example: Stern, 1976; Halliday & Hasan, 1976;…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Paragraph Composition, Discourse Analysis
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Sütçü, Selim Soner – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2020
Firstly known as "weblog", soon shortened as "blog" in 1999, blogs have always been an important part of online culture. Since then their static nature has changed, and they have offered new opportunities, which in return has started to draw the attention of both educators and researchers increasingly. Soon they have assumed a…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Web Sites, Academic Language, English (Second Language)
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Sabarun – English Language Teaching, 2019
This study attempts to explore the target needs and the learning needs. This research was conducted at the second semester English department students of Palangka Raya State Islamic Institute of 2017/ 2018 academic years. The respondent was 20 EFL paragraph writing learners. The research findings were as follows: (a) in terms of the target…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Class Activities
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Siddiqui, Kamran Akhtar – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2020
Writing in English holds great importance throughout the world, especially when it comes to academic and professional excellence. Therefore, writing in English is given due status in Pakistan too. However, despite learning English for years, Pakistani students face difficulty in writing like other foreign language learners. One of the major issues…
Descriptors: Paragraph Composition, English (Second Language), Language Proficiency, Writing Difficulties
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Situngkir, Debby Annella – Acuity: Journal of English Language Pedagogy, Literature and Culture, 2019
Enhancing paragraph writing skill of students addresses the issues of writing. To see the paragraph writing skill enhancement of students and finding out the significant difference in paragraph writing skill enhancement between students acquired Individual Process Approach and students acquired Collaborative Process Approach are the aims of this…
Descriptors: Paragraph Composition, Process Approach (Writing), Writing Processes, Writing Improvement
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Hung, Do Minh; Diem, Tran Thi Thuy – Arab World English Journal, 2020
Corrective feedback in learning English as a foreign language (EFL), especially in writing skills, has been investigated for years. Feedback is in various modes, including direct, indirect, electronic, and conferencing between teachers and students. The current study attempted to apply teacherstudent conferencing feedback to a class of non-English…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Teacher Student Relationship, Language Teachers, College Freshmen
Siu, Fiona Kwai-peng – Online Submission, 2018
Different approaches have been used to teach EFL students summary writing, including a genre-based approach (Chen & Su, 2012), implementing key words and question generation (Chou, 2012), and automatic scaffolding and concept mapping (Yang, 2015). This study aims to explore the effectiveness of another approach--one that might be more…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Generalization
Arteaga-Lara, Héctor Mauricio – Latin American Journal of Content and Language Integrated Learning, 2017
Writing plays a significant role in language learning. Previous research has reported on the effectiveness of several approaches to develop writing skills to enhance writing competence, but little attention has been given to the paragraph writing of elementary students. The present qualitative action research study used artifacts, teacher's…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Reading Instruction, Second Language Learning
Siu, Fiona Kwai-peng – Online Submission, 2016
This study aims to explore the effectiveness of a paradigm to teach native Cantonese-speaking university students the hierarchical structure of expository prose to improve paragraph coherence. Most of the diagnostic argumentative essays the participants in this study wrote in the course were incoherent, failing to meet readers' expectation of…
Descriptors: Rhetorical Invention, Paragraph Composition, Writing Strategies, Writing Skills
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Donley, Michael – English Language Teaching Journal, 1976
The use of the paragraph is recommended in teaching composition, provided that heuristic rather than mechanical techniques are used. Some such techniques for advanced level teaching are discussed. (RM)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Instruction, Paragraph Composition, Second Language Learning
Byrne, Donn – English Teachers' Journal (Israel), 1974
Some of the difficulties of developing a student's ability to write in aforeign language are discussed, and specific suggestions are made of ways to teach this skill. (RM)
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Language Instruction, Language Skills, Paragraph Composition
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Buckingham, Thomas – TESOL Quarterly, 1979
This article states that advanced composition skills must provide students with means of becoming independent writers, able to monitor their own writing and to know the means to solve problems of effective written communication. (Author/CFM)
Descriptors: Course Objectives, English (Second Language), Language Instruction, Paragraph Composition
Anderson, Mary Lynn; Wrase, Judith – 1976
The foreign student in an American university must be able to communicate in English, orally and in writing, well enough to do college-level academic work. The college or university which admits foreign students has the responsibility either to require a certain level of English proficiency or to provide the means for the student to get the…
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Foreign Students, Higher Education
Yorkey, Richard – 1974
This paper first explains the diversity of the Arab World, the unifying force of Classical Arabic, and that Modern Standard Arabic, less complicated in structure and less ornate in rhetoric, is sufficiently Different from colloquial dialects to require considerable instruction in schools. For contrastive analysis to be useful as a basis for EFL…
Descriptors: Arabic, Contrastive Linguistics, Dialects, English (Second Language)
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