____________________ It has been more than thirty years since Richard Braddock published the notable article in which he examined the manner that professional writers utilize topic sentences. He found in his corpus that expository paragraphs seldom began with topic sentences. Consequently, Braddock (1974) admonished teachers to stop instructing their students that most professional writers begi...

This study aimed to investigate the kinds of peer scaffolding behaviors occurring during English as a Foreign Language (EFL) writing activities through three steps process. The participants comprised ten major students in classroom University Phayao selected by purposive sampling. They were classified into five expert EFL learners and novice according their scores written paragraph they wrote b...

Peer response is useful to improve student writing. However, traditional peer response takes a single mode, which has some problems, such as effort for preparation of documents or ambiguous feedback. To address these problems, this study presents two peer response approaches, that is, an integrative approach and a game-based integrative approach. Additionally, whether students with these two pe...

This study aimed to investigate whether cooperative learning approach is effective in improving writing skills of non-English majors China. The participants this are 305 ranging from freshmen sophomore Anhui Sanlian University. adopted the quantitative research method and used questionnaires collect data students' skills. results revealed that exerted a positive effect on terms mechanics, vocab...

Collocational competence is of critical importance to EFL learners’ language proficiency. Due limited research on L1 influence L2 development receptive and productive knowledge adjective + noun collocations, especially in the context Vietnam, this study an attempt address these gaps by investigating whether Vietnamese learners could recognize use congruent English collocations more accurately t...

This study aimed to investigate the students' participation and student's perceptions of use poster sessions in essay writing classes. A qualitative method was applied this study. The respondents were third-semester English Education Study Program students who took an class. Sixty-third-semester from two classes selected randomly participate participants consisted 30 students. reason for choosi...

This research analyzed Saudi undergraduate students’ writing before and after individual face-to-face feedback. The intervention was in the nature of written feedback on EFL students' paragraph writing. participants were 23 students exposed to a pre post-test across six criteria that targeted evaluate their with corrective from teacher. one semester long. study reported plays an important role ...

Writing is an important skill in language learning, which needs careful attention and planning to attain mastery desired proficiency. The development of technology has altered the ways instruction. People's interactions have become so close as a result social media that it appears we socially interconnected. purpose present study was explore impact Facebook on writing EFL learners. used quasi-e...