Recent versions of international high-stakes tests like TOEFL and IELTS have made use of integrated tasks in addition to the traditional independent tasks in a claim to provide a more realistic estimation of the test takers’ language abilities. The present study aimed to investigate how test takers’ performance may differ on such tasks. As such, the test takers’ performance was compared on IELT...

This research aims to investigate the effects of two teaching sequences – interleaving and blocking on participants’ use three types cohesive devices (conjunctions, conjunctive adverbs prepositions [thereafter CCPs]) in their argumentative essays. The participants included 50 native Cantonese-speaking university students taking an academic writing course. Interleaving refers sequence which lear...

The paper proposes methodology of teaching argumentative essay to the Adyghe- Russian bilingual students. article considers problem native language interference, analyzes typical mistakes made by Adyghe-Russian students in Unified State Exam, justifies necessity use special methodological techniques (comprehensive text analysis, writing a short essay) which allow training for Exam essay. author...

Students’ argumentation performance can be influenced by their epistemic beliefs, however, in the context of argumentative essay writing and peer feedback online setting this has not been clearly investigated. This study explores relationship between students’ beliefs regarding feedback. In total, 101 undergraduate students filled out survey wrote an essay. Then, they provided two sets on essay...