A Single or Separate Entities? A Genre-Based Investigation Into the Correspondence Between L1 and L2 Writing Skills

Reflecting one of the state-of-the-art issues in SLA, this study aimed at inspecting correspondence between Persian and English writing skills to see whether or not they emerged from a single entity called multi-competence (Cook, 1991, 2016). Besides, impact genre on was examined explore if their possible source were genre-sensitive not. In so doing, 50 MA TEFL students, intermediate level language proficiency, selected through Oxford quick placement test. Each student wrote down four argumentative descriptive compositions: two English. Then compositions evaluated based criteria IELTS task 2 scoring scale. To analyze obtained data, Pearson product-moment correlations one-way repeated measures ANOVAs employed. The findings illustrated that there significant compositions, which supported existence entity, multi-competence. also displayed affected participants’ L1 L2 skills, implying source, multi-competence, possibly influenced by genre. Based findings, it is recommended instruction be included courses as are inter-dependent can help each other’s amelioration. It suggested genre-based approach utilized enhance students’ awareness over building blocks