‘High-quality talk’ is a fundamental principle of many approaches to teaching grammar. However, relatively few studies have attempted characterize this talk with attention the ways in which classroom dialogue might engender metalinguistic thinking. This paper explores how concepts procedural and declarative knowledge may be applied discourse order identify problems potentials grammatical ‘Metat...

This paper aims to examine the differences abilities between extrovert and introvert personality in learning English. study describes ability of speaking, writing, listening reading. The approach used this is a qualitative approach. Data were obtained by conducting observations interviews with research subjects. subjects students third semester English Education at IAIN Pekalongan. analysis use...

The issue of whether or not to correct errors in students’ writing is controversial. Some scholars argue that error correction is helpful, while others argue that it is ineffective, perhaps even harmful. What is missing from the literature are studies about how error correction might affect the performance of specific types of students. This study, which included 140 undergraduate English major...

In an effort to expand the disciplinary discussions on transfer in L2 writing and because most studies have focused on transfer as reuse and not as an adequate adaptation of writing knowledge in new contexts, the present study as the first of its kind aimed to explore the issue of adaptive transfer in an English for General Academic Purposes (EGAP) writing course. The study thus focused on type...

In the teaching of foreign languages, after all attempts and reforms, understanding has been increasingly strengthened that without reliable linguistic knowledge it is impossible to achieve strong communication skills, which were considered goal grammatical skills play an important role in development language skills. The grammar languages ambiguous. Grammar are equally for speaking, writing, r...

The research aimed to investigate the students’ ability and explore difficulties in writing recount text. This used a case study, design was presented using descriptive qualitative method. subject of study first year students MA NW Nabi’ Nubu’ Kekait which consists 25 students. Writing test interview were instrument research. result showed that mean score 69.92. It means text poor. There three ...

We report on the role of the Urdu grammar in the Parallel Grammar (ParGram) project (Butt et al., 1999; Butt et al., 2002).1 The ParGram project was designed to use a single grammar development platform and a unified methodology of grammar writing to develop large-scale grammars for typologically different languages. At the beginning of the project, three typologically similar European grammars...

This paper investigated the recommendations from six EFL (English as a foreign language) teachers about improving writing courses in Japan. The study focused on any commonalities among responses concerning three themes: (1) describing general curriculum, (2) modifications meeting student needs, and (3) identifying innovative approaches. Answers also differed how assessed quality of their compos...

Flowers belong to one of the natural phenomena that cannot be captured completely, as there is enormous variety of shapes both within and between individuals. The authors propose a procedural modeling of flowering plants using an extension of L-Systems – a model based on three-dimensional generalized maps. Conventionally, in order to build a model the user has to write the grammar, which consis...