English language practitioners have long relied on intuition-based scales for rating EFL/ESL writing. As these scales lack an empirical basis, the scores they generate tend to be unreliable, which results in invalid interpretations. Given the significance of the genre of description and the fact that the relevant literature does not introduce any data-based analytic scales for rating EFL descri...

the purpose of the present study is to develop appropriate scoring scales for each of the defined stages of the writing process, and also to determine to what extent these scoring scales can reliably and validly assess the performances of efl learners in an academic writing task. two hundred and two students’ writing samples were collected after a step-by-step process oriented essay writing ins...

Çalışmanın amacını, yaratıcı yazmayla ilişkili hazırlanmış doktora tezlerinin incelenmesi ve betimsel içerik analizinin yapılması oluşturmaktadır. Temel nitel araştırma yaklaşımına göre desenlenen bu çalışmada, verilerin toplanmasında doküman incelemesinden yararlanılmıştır. Verilerin analizinde, analizi yöntemi kullanılmıştır. Araştırmanın sonucunda, yapılmış günümüze yaklaştıkça sıklaştığı gö...

Writing is troublesome to be learned and taught for some students. One technique that can used in teaching writing TPS. The research was conducted SMP Plus Nurulhidayah Pasundan. researchers identify problems, such as: 1) Does using TPS improve the students’ creativity?, 2) How learning situation when implemented class?. Classroom Action Research this research. From result of pre-test, we found...