Lewis (1993) recognized significance of word combinations including collocations by presenting lexical approach. Because of the crucial role of collocation in vocabulary acquisition, this research set out to evaluate the rate of collocations in Iranian EFL learners' writing production across L1 and L2. In addition, L1 interference with L2 collocational use in the learner' writing samples was st...

This study sought to investigate dynamic assessment (DA) - an assessment approach that embeds inter- vention within the assessment process and that yields information about the learner’s responsiveness to this intervention - and the writing performance of the second language (L2) learners in Web 2.0 contexts. To this end, pre and post-treatment writings of 45 par...

Indubitably, the efficacy of metalinguistic awareness in improving EFL learners’ grammatical knowledge and writing quality has long been an area of great interest in applied linguistics Brown (2001). Accordingly, the main objective of the present study was to investigate the impact of planned and unplanned focus on form instruction on students’ ability to learn grammar and use it appropriately ...

The Graphic organizer strategy is visually mapped to organize the general into a particular idea in an argumentative paragraph develop students’ writing scores. purpose of this research enrich theoretical and practical strategiesin argumentatively. This quasi-experimental study with Pretest-post-test non-equivalent group non-random sampling technique determine experimental consisting 23 partici...

In this paper we present a Travel Blog Assistant System that facilitates the travel blog writing by automatically selecting for each blog paragraph written by the user the most relevant images from an uploaded image set. In order to do this, the system first automatically adds metadata to the traveler’s photos based both on a Generic Visual Categorizer (visual keywords) and by exploiting cross-...

This study examines the potential for computational tools and human raters to classify paragraphs based on positioning. In this study, a corpus of 182 paragraphs was collected from student, argumentative essays. The paragraphs selected were initial, middle, and final paragraphs and their positioning related to introductory, body, and concluding paragraphs. The paragraphs were analyzed by the co...