the main purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of portfolios and conferencing techniques on iranian efl learners' writing skill. the experiment involved iranian intermediate students that were randomly assigned to two experimental groups and one control group. the participants of the first experimental group were asked to provide portfolios of their 4 paragraphs during the course ...

Ideas within student’s scientific works must meet conditions, one of which is written in a good and correct paragraph. Ironically, international students at UIN Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang still make some mistakes upon writing papers even though they have been equipped with Indonesian language competence since the first semester. The current study aims to identify problems on students’ paragra...

Paragraph writing is one of subject study at university level but there are no books provide to teach this subject. Therefore, the researcher construct teh material for Pargraph Writing based on EGRA Technique. This research find out students’ perceptions paragraph technique. The applied descriptive qualitative research. was conducted in English Education Department, Faculty and Teacher Trainin...

Generally, this study investigates the impact of problem-based learning strategies in enhancing and improving English as a Foreign Language students’ paragraph writing skills. It explores Problem-Based Learning on EFL learners’ development grammar abilities. The participants were 38 male students between ages 15 18. They all level ten secondary school attended public institution Al-Baha Saudi A...

Writing is key to educational and workplace success. The majority of computer-based writing support applications target K-12 students and offer standard feedback concerning the U.S.centric, 5-paragraph, expository essay genre, which is typically taught to developing writers and used on standardized tests. This writing demo takes a “left turn”. By “left turn”, we mean that this demo is illustrat...

Scaffolding is considered as a kind of support assisting students in completing language learning tasks. Research into mind-mapping, type graphic organizer, has indicated its role scaffolding strategy teaching English. This paper reports descriptive study examining teachers’ beliefs and practices using mind-mapping to scaffold students’ paragraph writing at pre-writing stage. The data discussed...