IMPROVING STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE PARAGRAPH USING OUTLINE TECHNIQUE

Individual Students’ Pathways of Achievement in Mathematics, Reading and Writing

25 This is not the student’s real name (nor is it the name of any other student in our study). For the analyses below, students’ achievement has been grouped for each subject according to whether their results improved, stayed relatively the same, or declined between each phase of the study. For the purposes of this simple analysis, scores that stayed relatively the same were calculated using t...

Improving Students Learning and Achievement in Mathematics by Using Smart board

Mathematics skill deficiencies for entrants into degrees are welldocumented. Quizzes at the first month of semester and mid-term test confirmed that incoming students to the Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University lacked basic mathematical skills. In 2011 visual learning resources were created using smart board, an interactive whiteboard, to helpstudents fi...

Improving the writing skills of college students.

Advanced writing skills are an important aspect of academic performance as well as of subsequent work-related performance. However, American students rarely attain advanced scores on assessments of writing skills (National Assessment of Educational Progress, 2002). In order to achieve higher levels of writing performance, the working memory demands of writing processes should be reduced so that...

Metadiscourse: A Technique for Improving Student Writing

The Comparative Effect of Using Idioms in Conversation and Paragraph Writing on EFL Learners’ Idiom Learning

This study investigated the comparative effect of teaching idiomatic expressions through practicing them in conversation and paragraph writing on intermediate EFL learners’ idiom learning. The participants were sorted out of a population of 134 intermediate students in Zabansara Language School in Khorramabad based on their scores on a Preliminary English Test (PET) and an idiom test piloted in...