This study investigated the impact of writing checklist on composing descriptive essays among EFL learners at the intermediate level. Sixty participants were assigned to experimental and control groups. Both groups were given a pre-test of writing a descriptive essay including 150 words. The experimental group used checklist for learning while the control used teacher correcting technique in ea...

This study aimed to investigate the impact of teaching developmental grammatical errors on translator trainees’ L2 paragraph writing ability. After administration of Oxford Placement Test (OPT), 40 out of 100 undergraduate translator trainees were selected from the Islamic Azad University of Tonekabon branch. Further, the participants were divided into an experimental and a control groups...

This study examines the potential for computational tools and human raters to classify paragraphs based on positioning. In this study, a corpus of 182 paragraphs was collected from student, argumentative essays. The paragraphs selected were initial, middle, and final paragraphs and their positioning related to introductory, body, and concluding paragraphs. The paragraphs were analyzed by the co...

This paper is well composed in a comprehensive narrative form, and it is a good model for effective thesis development. The writer has revealed thesis elements clearly and early in the paper, has developed and extended these throughout the opening paragraph, and has concluded the first paragraph with a thesis summary. Examples of thesis development appear in blue below. The summary thesis state...

The recently introduced Paragraph Vector is an efficient method for learning highquality distributed representations for pieces of texts. However, an inherent limitation of Paragraph Vector is lack of ability to infer distributed representations for texts outside of the training set. To tackle this problem, we introduce a Generative Paragraph Vector, which can be viewed as a probabilistic exten...

After thoroughly and seriously studying, analysing and considering the basic matters confronted by the people, nation, and state, and additionally by using its authority based on Article 37 of the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia, the MPR amends and/or adds Article 1 Paragraph (2) and (3); Article 3 Paragraph (1), (3), and (4); Article 6 Paragraph (1) and (2); Article 6A Paragraph...

OBJECTIVES 1) To investigate different aspects of paragraph reading in Mandarin-speaking students with cochlear implants (CIs) and the factors associated with unfavorable outcomes, and 2) to understand the replaceability of a paragraph-reading test with a sentence-reading test. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional, case-controlled study. METHODS Fifty-three students with CIs (aged 11.0 ± 1.4 years)...