ABSTRACTThis study investigates how Indonesian undergraduate EFL students construct argumentative essays through critical discussion using Declarative speech acts and pragmatic approaches. This employed a qualitative research method. The data consist of authored by majoring in English at private university Indonesia (N=34). Students worked pairs to discuss controversial topic, separated into pr...

Argumentation in writing research articles is very crucial for showing the position of authors a certain science field, but social and humanity are still lower skill argumentation. This investigated using impact Genre Based Approach (GBA) training mentoring Research Article improving argumentation RA. The aim this study to describe activity learning teaching by GBA RA on RAs writing. material s...

Automated essay scoring is now an established capability used from elementary school through graduate school for purposes of instruction and assessment. Newer applications provide automated diagnostic feedback about student writing. Feedback includes errors in grammar, usage, and mechanics, comments about writing style, and evaluation of discourse structure. This paper reports on a system that ...