The Effect of Sentence-Writing Practice on Iranian low-intermediate EFL Learners’ L2 Grammatical Accuracy

Authors

  • Marzieh Rahmati Department of English Language, Tonekabon Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tonekabon, Iran
  • Ramin Rahimy Department of English Language, Tonekabon Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tonekabon, Iran
Abstract:

This study aimed to investigate the effect of sentence writing practice on male and female low-intermediate students’ English grammatical accuracy. The question this study tried to answer does English grammatical accuracy can be affected by sentence writing practice. To find the answer to the question, 15 low intermediate level students from Kish away institute were selected. They were both male and female. Low- intermediate level students were deal for the current study because they were learning all skills of language at the same time, and they were familiar with some words, also their English proficiency was enough to speak English and to understand the importance of grammar but they were not high enough to not make grammar errors during writing. The students were selected via administrating OPT which divided into two groups, one Experimental groups (with sentence writing practice) and one control group (no sentence writing practice). And the results revealed that the male and female participants performed better on English grammatical accuracy.  

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volume 4  issue 4

pages  41- 51

publication date 2016-05-01

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