Two groups of freshman students, enrolled in their first writing course in EFL, participated in the study. Before instruction, no significant differences were found between both groups in their writing ability. Both groups were exposed to the same in-class writing instruction. Since students have difficulty generating ideas in EFL, writing paragraphs with topic sentences and supporting details,...

Classic observations in the field of the neuropsychology of language have established that brain injury can result in the specific disruption of the ability to use words from the closed class (e.g., determiners, auxiliary verbs, prepositions, etc.) while the production of words from the open class is preserved (e.g., nouns, verbs, etc.). In this study, we report the case of a French native spea...

Previous studies on Thai Sentence Boundary Detection (SBD) mostly assumed a sentence ends at a space and formulated the task SBD as a disambiguation problem, which classified a space either as an indicator for Sentence Boundary (SB) or non-Sentence Boundary (nSB). In this paper, we propose a word labelling approach which treats the space character as a normal word, and detects SB between any tw...

This paper describes WriteAhead2, an interactive writing environment that provides lexical and grammatical suggestions for second language learners, and helps them write fluently and avoid common writing errors. The method involves learning phrase templates from dictionary examples, and extracting grammar patterns with example phrases from an academic corpus. At run-time, as the user types word...

The purpose of this research is to analyze the steps and writing competency implemented through CLIL in writing. This aimed at seventh-grade students Junior High School SMPN 4 Busungbiu, Singaraja. participants were 30 one class. first time, researcher found diagnostic Busungbiu. mixed method combining descriptive qualitative quantitative was applied study. data collected by Classroom that dete...

The efficacy of genre-based approach to teaching writing has been regarded as an influential practice in L2 writing pedagogy (Hyland, 2007). However, there is still gap between actual structures found in reading materials recommended as textbooks and discourse patterns recommended for L2 writing in EFL contexts, the gap which would highlight the problems of genre and rhetorical patterns for tea...

Review on previous English as a second language (ESL) interventional programmes in Malaysia has indicated limited emphasis creative pedagogy. Particularly writing classes that include descriptive writing, genre requires writers to be and expressive, significant portion of learners were found suffer from poor proficiency. Therefore, the present study aimed explore impact pedagogical strategies E...

Speaking and writing are the productive skills of language and share similar components. In other words, writing and speaking are clearly related activities, but the modes of production are different. In addition, among a number of personality variables in predicting English language proficiency, extraversion/introversion has been extensively studied. This quasi-experimental study aims at explo...