The Paragraph Writing Process

the impact of portfolio assessment on iranian efl students essay writing: a process-oriented approach

this study was conducted to investigate the impact of portfolio assessment as a process-oriented assessment mechanism on iranian efl students’ english writing and its subskills of focus, elaboration, organization, conventions, and vocabulary. out of ninety juniors majoring in english literature and translation at the university of isfahan, sixty one of them who were at the same level of writing...

The Impact of Teaching Developmental Grammatical Errors on Iranian Undergraduate Translator Trainees’ L2 Paragraph Writing Ability

This study aimed to investigate the impact of teaching developmental grammatical errors on translator trainees’ L2 paragraph writing ability. After administration of Oxford Placement Test (OPT), 40 out of 100 undergraduate translator trainees were selected from the Islamic Azad University of Tonekabon branch. Further, the participants were divided into an experimental and a control groups...

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...

THE WRITING PROCESS: An Overview of Research on Teaching Writing as a Process

Contemporary literacy theory argues that teaching students how to write is a means to more fully engage them as readers and in literacy learning. The writing process is utilized in many U.S. classrooms. This method emphasizes the recursive processes of prewriting, drafting, editing, and revising. The purpose of this study reviews research about the evolution and effectiveness of the writing pro...

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