in assessing foreign language writing, holistic and analytic scoring can be used to measure a variety of discourse and linguistic features. this study aimed to investigate the possible significant effect of analyt- ic and holistic assessments on improving writing skill among iranian efl learners. for this purpose, two groups of intermediate efl learners, after being homogenized, were divided in...

Writing knowledge pertaining to process, system, content, and genre plays an essential role produce intelligible composition. The purpose of the present study is twofold – investigate correlation between aspects writing quality writing, contribution overall individual quality. participants were 54 second-year ELT undergraduate students a university in Indonesia. A test multiple-choice on used a...

This study is intended to investigate (a) English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ self-efficacy perceptions, (b) their use of self-regulated strategies, and (c) whether possible link exists between perceptions strategy in writing skill. The data were collected with the participation 50 EFL learners from Department Translation Interpretation through quantitative methods. instruments used t...

This study investigates the relation between EFL (English as a foreign language) learners’ autonomy, their identity styles, and their writing ability and it aims to show which independent variables have higher predicting power on variances in writing. To this end, 60 Iranian university EFL students at the language center of the researchers’ institution were selected to participate in this study...

This quasi-experimental study investigated the instructional efficacy of genre-based approach on Iranian EFL learners’motivation for writing. Out of 180 participants, 60 EFL male and female students at university level, with the age range of 19-28, based on a standard profeciency test, Preliminary English Test (PET), were selected and randomly assigned into control and experimental groups. Each...

This study aimed at investigating the impact of writing on Iranian EFL college students’ rhetorical organization. Thirty Iranian female undergraduate students majoring in English at Al-zahra University participated in the current study. The writing instructions included two stages, each lasting for four weeks. The participants were assigned to a control group and an experimental group according...

The purpose of the study is to examine types of lexical errors committed by EFL Mongolian learners in their writing. A total of 525 errors in 62 English writings by Mongolian English majors were identified and analyzed. Supplementary information is also collected by means of questionnaire and interviews for more comprehensive understanding of the factors affecting the errors. Possible solutions...

Most learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) consider writing challenging task, and they experience difficulties such organizing thoughts, selecting relevant words to represent their views, producing rhetorical patterns specific the target culture. Research into L2 suggests that collaboration in classroom can assist students set goals, generate ideas, write edit, reflect on task. The ef...

The ability to write effectively is becoming progressively important and instruction in writing is assuming an increasing role in second and foreign language education. Students’ writing abilities have been tested through various writing tasks. Independent tasks of writing or writing-only tasks have been utilized to test students’ writing ability; however, they have been criticized for their la...

Hedging academic claims has been recognized as one of integral pragmatic features of academic writing in which most EFL academic writers seem to face substantial problems. Explicit instruction has been proposed by some scholars as an effective approach to make EFL writers aware of the importance, different forms, and pragmatic functions of hedging devices some of which are polysemous and polypr...