IMPROVING STUDENTS’ WRITING SKILLS THROUGH SEMANTIC MAPPING TECHNIQUE IN GENRE-BASED APPROACH
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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...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: JELLT (Journal of English Language and Language Teaching)
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2579-6046,2579-6038
DOI: 10.36597/jellt.v3i2.5997