____________________ 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...

In the context of natural language processing, representation learning has emerged as a newly active research subject because of its excellent performance in many applications. Learning representations of words is a pioneering study in this school of research. However, paragraph (or sentence and document) embedding learning is more suitable/reasonable for some tasks, such as sentiment classific...

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...

In progress, if a debtor himself is unable to register Deed of Granting Mortgage Rights application, then he may choose representative. As consequence debtor's absence, deed giving mortgage rights must be made into Attorney power Charge for deed. This research sociological juridical research. the results obtained its development Article 96 PMNA/Perkaban No. 3 1997 as amended by Perkaban 8 2012 ...

This study purported to comparatively investigate the influence of collaborative writing on the quality of individual writing of four female Iranian and four female Malaysian students. The first semester students at a private university in Malaysia, who were comparable in terms of age, gender, study discipline, and language proficiency, were divided into two Iranian and two Malaysian dyads. The...

This study investigates the effect of homogeneous and heterogeneous peer interaction on the development of Iranian EFL learners’ writing skill. Sixty female students of TEFL participated in the study. The participants were divided into two groups based on their English proficiency test scores. The homogeneous group consisted of 14 participants paired with partners with similar English proficien...

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...