As a popular Web 2.0 technology, wikis have gained momentum in educational contexts. To give further empirical support to the use of wikis in foreign language education, this research probed the usefulness of a wiki-based writing instruction on the ...
Jianchun Dai, Li Wang, Yongcheng He
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Scrutinizing The Utility of Flipped and Online Instructions for Ameliorating EFL Learners’ Writing Ability [PDF]
Flipped instruction constitutes an approach to language teaching that prompts the teachers to give priority to the learners’ active engagement in second language interaction by assigning them to examine their instructional lectures outside the context ...
Leila Dobakhti +2 more
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Examining the Effects of Writing Instruction through Blogging on Second Language Writing Performance and Anxiety [PDF]
This study investigated the effects of blog-mediated instruction on English-as-a-foreign language (EFL) learners’ writing performance and anxiety. In addition, it aimed to probe into the EFL learners’ attitudes towards blog-mediated writing instruction ...
Jalil Fathi, Saeed Nourzadeh
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The Efficacy of an SFL-Oriented Register Instruction in Improving Iranian EFL Learners’ Writing Performance and Perception: Language Proficiency in Focus [PDF]
The current study sought to explore the impact of SFL-oriented register instruction on Iranian EFL learner’ writing performance with a central focus on their English proficiency level.
Mohammad Yousefi Osguee +2 more
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The Effect of Preview, Question, Read, and Summarize (PQRS) Strategy on Indonesian EFL Students’ Writing Ability across Working Memory Capacity Levels [PDF]
This study aimed at investigating the effect of Preview, Question, Read, Summarize (PQRS) Strategy on EFL students’ writing ability by considering their working memory capacity (WMC) levels.
Vindy Ekaningrum +2 more
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The Effect of Blog-Supported Writing Instruction on Writing Performance of Iranian EFL Learners [PDF]
As an attempt to shed more light on the impact of blog as a Web 2.0 technology in Second Language (L2) learning, the purpose of this study was set to investigate the effect of blog-supported writing instruction on writing performance of Iranian English ...
Vahideh Akbari , Fatemeh Mondanipoor
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Teaching Writing in Vietnam’s Secondary and High Schools
The current study adopted features of a survey research design to examine the EFL high school teachers’ beliefs about writing and its teaching, their actual classroom practices, and the interplays between their beliefs and practices in the realm of EFL ...
Vu Phi Ho Pham, Minh Hoa Truong
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Using Short Stories to Teach Language Skills [PDF]
The notion that the main objective of EFL teaching is to help students to communicate fluently in the target language cause many teachers still believe that an EFL class should focus on mastering linguistic elements only.
Pardede, P. (Parlindungan)
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The Effect of Portfolio Assessment on Second Language Writing Self-Regulation of Iranian EFL Students [PDF]
As an attempt to shed more light on the effectiveness of alternative assessment in second language (L2) writing, the present study sought to investigate the effect of portfolio assessment on L2 writing self-regulation of intermediate Iranian English as a
Marjan Feizi, Parisa Zohdijalal
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Effects of corrective feedback on EFL speaking task complexity in China’s university classroom [PDF]
Corrective feedback (CF) and task complexity are two important pedagogical topics in second language acquisition research in recent years, but there is few research investigating effects of CF on speaking task complexity in China’s university classroom ...
Gao, Xing, Zhai, Keyu
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