In recent years, writing, as one of the most important communicative skills, has been drawing increasing attention in English language teaching in China. This paper presents an investigation into the use of decomposition in Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) to analyze textual coherence. Based on LSA and Halliday and Hasan’s (1976) concepts of cohesion and their categorization of cohesive devices, ...

Integrationism is a post-structuralist theory of language and communication. The theory has been applied to a groundbreaking analysis of writing as a form of communication where writing is teased apart from speech and realigned with spatial configurations in general. Although it has many practical applications, this view can be extremely difficult to comprehend when expressed as a very specific...

This paper summarizes computer supported language learning environments using collaborative writing tools. Moreover, this paper proposes a markup-based composition learning support system called CoCoA (Communicative Collection Assisting System). It allows students and teachers to exchange marked-up documents via Internet, and its environment is very similar to a real one in which people use pap...

This case study is aimed to examine the communicative competence of an Indonesian student who studying in one United States Universities. The evaluation competence, such as speaking and writing, was based on theory Communicative Competence (CC) proposed by Celce-Murcia (2008). spoken written data given were from IELTS test format. collected face-to-face interview through Skype application, whil...

After moving away from the psychometric and the integrative language testing paradigms toward the communicative language testing paradigm, experts in writing and assessment have been concerned with creating conditions under which learners can experience and display writing in an authentic way so that their writings will tally the ones in non-test situations. As an alternative assessment option,...

GRST101 Elementary German This course is an introduction to German and leads to communicative competence in German by building on the four primary skills--speaking, listening, reading, and writing--while developing participants' awareness of life and culture of German-speaking countries. Learning German and its structure will also enhance students' awareness of commonalities between the English...

This article focuses on the writing strategies second-language students use to compose on social media sites. These alternative and unconventional sites for learning provide language learners opportunities to acquire language by using multiple modalities to respond to various rhetorical situations. In comparison to these sites, academic writing contexts, particularly the developmental-writing c...

Applied linguistics is defined as a discipline that uses a variety of methods to address language-based problems, one of which is that of language teaching and learning. Based on this definition, the article will define and tackle the problem of teaching EFL writing in Vietnam which has, for a long time, been considered a challenge for language teachers. Specifically, this article will explore ...

This study examined the effects of an innovative comprehensive writing program in upper primary education on students’ writing performance and on teachers ́ classroom practices, beliefs and skills. The program focused on the communicative nature of writing, on writing as a process, and on explicit teaching of five genre-specific writing strategies. It was implemented by 43 teachers in their regu...