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 ...

Task-based language teaching (TBLT) can provide learners with more authentic communicative activities, particularly in foreign language context, where learners may experience few such opportunities. From the perspective of sociocultural theory (SCT), scaffolding is a process of supportive interaction that occurs when learners are communicating with each other. There are situations in which the ...

Vocabulary acquisition is one of the hottest research fields in English learning, which has aroused researchers’ great attention in recent years. However, their focus is on vocabulary size, vocabulary learning strategies and receptive lexical ability, seldom to productive lexical ability. Writing is an important productive ability for EFL learners, and a myriad of writing researches show that i...

the present study seeks to introduce and investigate an approach to teaching writing in the efl classroom which draws heavily on the use of formulaic expressions. in contrast to its predecessors, this approach includes both the application of process writing techniques and the teaching of grammar and vocabulary into its syllabus. two groups of 30 efl learners participated in this study. one gro...

The objectives of this paper are to identify the metadiscourse devices used by English learners at different levels language acquisition established Common European Framework Reference and categorise them facilitate assessment learning textual interpersonal devices. First, a learner corpus essays written was compiled. Then, were classified in categories. results showed lists frequencies example...

The present study was undertaken to investigate the impact of comparative critical reading strategy on the writing ability of Iranian learners who were learning English as a foreign language (EFL). In order to carry on the study, 60 participants (25 males and 35 females aged between 19 to 27) at intermediate level of language proficiency were randomly assigned to two groups; that is, the experi...

BACKGROUND Deaf children vary in the use of and proficiency in signed language. The majority of studies on writing skills of children who are deaf did not assess deaf children's proficiency in signed language and/or grouped together deaf children with varying sign language skills. AIMS Adopting a bimodal bilingual perspective, we examined evaluative expression, an important narrative tool in ...

Background: Academic writing is a complex and demanding activity in which students have to regulate their (meta)cognitive, motivational, linguistic processes self-regulatory strategies might serve as tool accomplish tasks. The research was done part of verification Zimmerman & Risemberg’s (1997) model self-regulation writing. Previous on the relationships between students’ self-regulated le...