The present review article discusses the significant role of technology, particularly blogging, in the development of the writing skill. Similar to the conventional classroom teaching, practitioners and researchers view blogs as tools for constructing grammar and writing skills and dispersing knowledge. In spite of the fact that learning through blogs can advance higher development of identity ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect critical thinking-infused paragraph writing instruction on enhancing university first-year L2 students’ intellectual traits. involved two randomly selected Social Science stream classes. researchers employed embedded design in because they mainly used quantitative data augmented by qualitative data. analyzed questionnaire and interview usi...

The English translation of Leo Tolstoy’s novel War and Peace has the following notable property: it contains this paragraph as a subsequence. If one were to write the letters and spaces that appear in the book as a string, then there would be a subsequence of the string that is identical to the string of letters and spaces in this paragraph. The full property is more general than that – War and...

This paper discusses discourse planning of pre-organized spontaneous narratives (SpnNS) in comparison with read speech (RS). F0 and tempo modulations are compared by speech paragraph size and discourse boundaries. The speaking rate of SpnNS from university classroom lecture is 2 to 3 times to that of RS by professionals; paragraph phrasing of SpnNS is 6 times that of RS. Patterns of paragraph a...

summary writing is associated with lots of cognitive and metacognitive complexities that necessitates instruction (hirvela & du, 2013). contrary to majority of studies carried out on summarization instruction, the present study addressed the underlying processes or microgenetic developments of the iranian efl learners’ summary writing. to this end, 41 male and female undergraduate students ...

Learning to speak foreign language requires more than knowing its grammatical and semantic rules. Speaking a language is especially difficult for foreign language learners because effective oral communication requires the ability to use the language appropriately in social interaction. This paper examines these aspects, so that teachers can more effectively help adult learners developing their ...

The present study was conducted to investigate the impact of multimodal discourse on Iraqi EFL learners' writing skills. To achieve goal, a group including 40 learners participated in free paragraph course based their scores Placement Test. Selected participants were randomly assigned control (N=20) and experimental groups. Prior start course, both groups given pretest (writing test). exposed t...

This research chiefly focused on the application of mitigation strategies and traditional form of feedback in writing development of the fifth semester University students majoring in TEFL and English Translation fields based on Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory in general and the notion of “Zone of Proximal Development” in particular. To that end, this study relied on a pre-posttest experimental...