The purpose of the present study was first to offer a tentative solution to the problems observed in writing pedagogy in Iran by devising a more comprehensive approach to genre-based writing instruction. In the second phase, a quasi-experimental research design was adopted to determine how effective the model was in writing instruction, compared with the traditional, product-oriented approach, ...

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the purpose of this research was to analyze efl writing tasks in two of the most popular english for speakers of other languages (esol) exam preparation courses in iran, namely ielts and toefl. having collected the criteria of writing task appropriateness in light of the process-oriented approach to writing instruction, we asked 60 learner participants to rate efl writing tasks in 3 ielts and 3...

Ilighly-intcractive computer software can potentially help users think and work more effectively. To realize this potential, sotiware developers should understand the cognitive processes involved in the tasks being performed and the ways users interact with the software to accomplish the tasks. Gathering data about software usage-<:alled protocols-is costly in several ways, including preparing ...

Main textThe story of “Establishing design principles for emissive organic SWIR chromophores from energy gap laws” is a recontextualizing concepts to reach broader community, like so many papers are. I feel at times that battle represents the tension trying be scientist and queer person working on building safe secure community in sciences. Prior this paper, as an experimental materials physica...

İnsanoğlunun anlatma yetisinin bir ürünü olan yazı ve yazma, Türkçe öğretimi içerisinde önemli yer kaplamaktadır. Çoğunlukla okullarda yüz yüze olarak gerçekleştirilen öğretimi, COVID-19 pandemisi nedeniyle belli süre çevrim içi ortamlar üzerinden gerçekleştirilmiştir. Bu zarfında yapılan derslerinin yazma eğitimi üzerindeki yansımalarını belirlemek ana dili açısından önem taşımaktadır. bakımda...

This quasi-experimental study investigated the instructional efficacy of genre-based approach on Iranian EFL learners’motivation for writing. Out of 180 participants, 60 EFL male and female students at university level, with the age range of 19-28, based on a standard profeciency test, Preliminary English Test (PET), were selected and randomly assigned into control and experimental groups. Each...

III   This study was an attempt to determine the effect of task-based approach vs. traditional approach on the narrative and expository writing of the Iranian EFL learners. There were two control groups as well as two experimental ones in the current study. In the two control groups namely G1 and G2 narrative and expository writing were taught respectively using the traditiona...

Each pendulum swing in the debate over how best to teach reading and writing calls for large-scale systemic changes. For the most part, however, the Želd of education has paid little attention to the full array of complexities involved in large-scale replication of curricular changes and other new directions for school-based interventions. Such neglect has contributed to the failure of many ref...