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The Effect of Dialogue Journal Writing on EFL Students' Writing Skill

Despite the role writing plays in learning a foreign language, many students do not show much interest in taking an active part in writing classes (Myint, 1997). Thus different activities have been proposed to motivate students to write one of which is dialogue journal writing, and the present work tries to investigate the possible effect(s) of such activity on writing ability of a group of Eng...

Collaborative Online Writing Assignments to Foster Active Learning

To help students master the content of a neurophysiology course, they were asked to participate in collaborative writing projects. In the first two years, students contributed to a class wiki by summarizing one lecture and editing summaries of several others. In the second two years, students worked in teams of three or four to write a series of illustrated chapters spanning the entire semester...

Self-Awareness and Communication Skill Training in Foster Adolescents

Objective: Since fosters adolescents are deprived of family environment and probably the friendly relationships, some of them may develop problems in achieving self-awareness and communication skills and adjusting to the environmental conditions. Thus, this study was conducted to assess the effect of self-awareness and communication skills training on increasing the level of adjustment in foste...

self- vs. peer-editing: one step forward from assessment to building efl students’ writing skill

a number of pedagogical arguments support self- and peer-assessment in language classrooms to improve the quality of learning by students’ involvement in the final judgments of one’s work. considering editing as a method of communicative testing of writing, this study aimed at finding out whether self- and peer-editing of assignments could result in the improvement in iranian efl students’ writ...

Promoting Successful Transition from Foster Care to Independent Living