Indonesia is a nation that rich in cultural artifacts. One of the artifacts oral literature which spread across archipelago. This study intended to describe use documented local Indonesian folktales applied for paragraph writing class. The chosen was Tenggerese Pasuruan, East Java, Indonesia. used mixed-method design. subjects were 46 students English Education Study Program who joined class Un...

The present study aims to explore critical thinking from EFL Thai students’ perspectives in collaborative writing activity. subjects were 32 second-year English major students composing paragraph the Writing II course. They divided into three groups based on their proficiency: advanced, intermediate, and novice, data was collected using quantitative qualitative approaches. skills questionnaire ...

Writing is considered as one of the most complicated skill in English that leads students to do some errors conducting particular paragraph. This research was conducted analyze students’ error writing recount A Theory on Surface Strategy Taxonomy (SST) which proposed by Dulay, Burt, and Krashen (1982) used work. There were 4 types had been classified according theory, namely: omission, addition...

Research in L1 writing has found numerous benefits of employing collaborative learning in the classroom. The research findings on group work provide clear evidence that engaging learners in group activities increases opportunities for students to engage in the negotiation of meaning, which further leads to better acquisition. The present study, implementing two different collaborative feedback ...

In this paper, we describe an n-gram approach to automatically assess essay quality in student writing. Underlying this approach is the development of n-gram indices that examine rhetorical, syntactic, grammatical, and cohesion features of paragraph types (introduction, body, and conclusion paragraphs) and entire essays. For this study, we developed over 300 n-gram indices and assessed their po...

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 something worthy of reading in a foreign language is challenging task. Students learning English as or second suffer most writing especially paragraph writing. Although studies have been conducted to explore errors composition Pakistani students, organization received little attention. Therefore, this study investigated the unity, development, and coherence paragraphs written by college...