The OUSL Journal is a peer-reviewed open access journal published by the Open University of Sri Lanka (OUSL). It first scholarly in focusing on research field and Distance Learning (ODL), being since 1997. provides platform to publish pedagogy relating teaching learning at level, particular (ODL). also forum for review articles related areas Agriculture, Natural Sciences, Education, Engineering...

Lewis (1993) recognized significance of word combinations including collocations by presenting lexical approach. Because of the crucial role of collocation in vocabulary acquisition, this research set out to evaluate the rate of collocations in Iranian EFL learners' writing production across L1 and L2. In addition, L1 interference with L2 collocational use in the learner' writing samples was st...

This study sought to investigate dynamic assessment (DA) - an assessment approach that embeds inter- vention within the assessment process and that yields information about the learner’s responsiveness to this intervention - and the writing performance of the second language (L2) learners in Web 2.0 contexts. To this end, pre and post-treatment writings of 45 par...

Indubitably, the efficacy of metalinguistic awareness in improving EFL learners’ grammatical knowledge and writing quality has long been an area of great interest in applied linguistics Brown (2001). Accordingly, the main objective of the present study was to investigate the impact of planned and unplanned focus on form instruction on students’ ability to learn grammar and use it appropriately ...

The Graphic organizer strategy is visually mapped to organize the general into a particular idea in an argumentative paragraph develop students’ writing scores. purpose of this research enrich theoretical and practical strategiesin argumentatively. This quasi-experimental study with Pretest-post-test non-equivalent group non-random sampling technique determine experimental consisting 23 partici...

Writing something worthy of reading in a foreign language is challenging task. Students learning English as or second suffer most writing especially paragraph writing. Although studies have been conducted to explore errors composition Pakistani students, organization received little attention. Therefore, this study investigated the unity, development, and coherence paragraphs written by college...