The Cubing Technique: A Technique in Pre-Writing to Improve Students’ Writing Skill

Metadiscourse: A Technique for Improving Student Writing

Writing Across the Curriculum: Strategies to Improve the Writing Skills of Nursing Students.

BACKGROUND Writing across the curriculum (WAC) is a strategy in which writing instruction occurs in classes outside of composition, literature, and other English courses. This literature review was conducted to identify and synthesize the peer-reviewed literature about WAC in nursing education. METHODS The team performed searches of MEDLINE (PubMed), CINAHL Plus With Full Text, and ERIC for a...

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...

the impact of pre-task planning on the improvement of iranian efl learners’ writing skill in task-based language teaching (tblt)

هدف اصلی تحقیق حاضر تبیین تاثیر برنامه ریزی پیش از انجام تکلیف بر بهبود مهارت نوشتاری زبان آموزان ایرانی در آموزش زبان تکلیف محور می باشد. به بیانی دیگر، این مطالعه رابطه بین برنامه ریزی پیش از انجام تکلیف و دو ویژگی زبانی در عملکرد نوشتاری یعنی پیچیدگی و دقت در مهارت نوشتاری را در سی یادگیرنده زبان در دو بخش عمده بررسی می کند. ابزارهای مورد استفاده برای جمع آوری داده ها در مطالعه حاضر شامل آزم...

Audiotaped Dialogue Journal: A Technique to Improve Speaking Skill of Iranian EFL Learners

  This study attempted to investigate whether there was any significant difference between the speaking achievement of learners who were trained by means of audiotaped dialogue journal, dialogue journal writing, or traditional free speech. The participants, 45 male and female students aged between 21 and 32, were selected by random sampling from among free speech classes in an English teaching...