Japanese students’ lack of English writing skills has been a long-standing problem. It not only originates from grammatical knowledge and vocabulary, but also the availability fewer opportunities to write essays in English. Further, current standards for evaluating written by beginner-level learners are established sufficiently, resulting heavy grading burden on teachers. This study establishes...

Collocational competence is of critical importance to EFL learners’ language proficiency. Due limited research on L1 influence L2 development receptive and productive knowledge adjective + noun collocations, especially in the context Vietnam, this study an attempt address these gaps by investigating whether Vietnamese learners could recognize use congruent English collocations more accurately t...

This research analyzed Saudi undergraduate students’ writing before and after individual face-to-face feedback. The intervention was in the nature of written feedback on EFL students' paragraph writing. participants were 23 students exposed to a pre post-test across six criteria that targeted evaluate their with corrective from teacher. one semester long. study reported plays an important role ...

Writing is an important skill in language learning, which needs careful attention and planning to attain mastery desired proficiency. The development of technology has altered the ways instruction. People's interactions have become so close as a result social media that it appears we socially interconnected. purpose present study was explore impact Facebook on writing EFL learners. used quasi-e...

A major challenge for first-year students is the demands on academic writing. The purpose of study to identify students' difficulties with writing at beginning their education thereby contribute discussion about how development can be supported. overall theoretical perspective systemic functional linguistics (SFL). data consists texts from first examination a primary teacher program. analysis i...

A corpus of 313 freshman college essays was analyzed in order to better understand the forms and functions of humor in academic writing. Human ratings of humor and wordplay were statistically aggregated using Factor Analysis to provide an overall Humor component score for each essay in the corpus. In addition, the essays were also scored for overall writing quality by human raters, which correl...

The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of two types of paragraph on EFL learners’ written production. It addressed the issue of how three aspects of language production (i.e. complexity, accuracy, and fluency) vary among two types of paragraphs (i.e. paragraphs of chronology and cause-effect) written by EFL learners. Thirty intermediate level learners of English participate...