The main role and responsibility of second language writing teachers is to help learners to write with minimal errors. To do so, teachers need to provide students with appropriate types of feedback. In this research, the researchers examined the effect of post-text written corrective feedback on written grammatical accuracy of Iranian intermediate EFL learners. In the first phase, Nelson Profic...

This paper focuses on the impact of an asynchronous online discussion forum on the development of students’ ability in and attitudes toward writing in English. Two groups of third-year students (N = 60) majoring in English were assigned to two treatment and control groups, each receiving different types of feedback. Students in the treatment group were required to participate ...

The present study attempted to investigate the writing performance of EFL learners through process vs. product writing on IELTS test. To do this, the researcher randomly selected 60 candidates who wanted to take the IELTS Test. They had already taken and passed several technical courses regarding the skills in that test. After they were divided into two experimental groups, they were given a wr...

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...

This study aims to look into how EFL teachers use teaching strategies and they those help students improve their writing skills during online learning. A qualitatively guided phenomenological approach is used three from senior high school. The research includes interviews, questionnaires, document analysis. researcher then analyzed the data using techniques such as condensation, display, drawin...

The study investigated the interaction patterns of six ASEAN EFL university students when they worked in small groups on two collaborative writing tasks: a descriptive essay and an argumentative essay. Both were homogeneous terms gender heterogeneous home countries. Data collection included pre- posttest writing, post-task questionnaires, participants’ work essays, their reflections, ...

This study examined the effects of cognitive task complexity increase on the complexity, accuracy, and fluency (CAF) as well as the temporal distribution of the cognitive and metacognitive processes involved in computer-mediated L2 written production. To this end, the study employed a between-subjects experimental design with 85 EFL learners from a language learning institute in Iran. Participa...