Two groups of freshman students, enrolled in their first writing course in EFL, participated in the study. Before instruction, no significant differences were found between both groups in their writing ability. Both groups were exposed to the same in-class writing instruction. Since students have difficulty generating ideas in EFL, writing paragraphs with topic sentences and supporting details,...

Classic observations in the field of the neuropsychology of language have established that brain injury can result in the specific disruption of the ability to use words from the closed class (e.g., determiners, auxiliary verbs, prepositions, etc.) while the production of words from the open class is preserved (e.g., nouns, verbs, etc.). In this study, we report the case of a French native spea...

Previous studies on Thai Sentence Boundary Detection (SBD) mostly assumed a sentence ends at a space and formulated the task SBD as a disambiguation problem, which classified a space either as an indicator for Sentence Boundary (SB) or non-Sentence Boundary (nSB). In this paper, we propose a word labelling approach which treats the space character as a normal word, and detects SB between any tw...

This paper describes WriteAhead2, an interactive writing environment that provides lexical and grammatical suggestions for second language learners, and helps them write fluently and avoid common writing errors. The method involves learning phrase templates from dictionary examples, and extracting grammar patterns with example phrases from an academic corpus. At run-time, as the user types word...

The purpose of this research is to analyze the steps and writing competency implemented through CLIL in writing. This aimed at seventh-grade students Junior High School SMPN 4 Busungbiu, Singaraja. participants were 30 one class. first time, researcher found diagnostic Busungbiu. mixed method combining descriptive qualitative quantitative was applied study. data collected by Classroom that dete...

Review on previous English as a second language (ESL) interventional programmes in Malaysia has indicated limited emphasis creative pedagogy. Particularly writing classes that include descriptive writing, genre requires writers to be and expressive, significant portion of learners were found suffer from poor proficiency. Therefore, the present study aimed explore impact pedagogical strategies E...

In this paper, we discuss our research into the effects on student writing of giving sentence-level feedback at several stages in a scaffolded assignment large second year science course. Our results indicate that draws reader’s intuitive sense for writing, rather than their technical grammatical knowledge, was most popular choice TAs assessing work, and also led to revisions students’ parts. A...

English learning is often thought of as words, grammar and sentence patterns, or a combination foreign languages cultures. In fact, rhetoric, an writing skill, great significance to writing. Many people think that the application rhetoric in will only make article mechanical rigid. Therefore, many learners pay less attention process learning. Flexible use various rhetorical devices can more viv...

The backgroundof this research is because are still many errors of using conjunctions in the papers student Indonesia Language and Literature education study program STKIP PGRI West Sumatera. This aims to describe misuse found students Indonesian type a qualitative descriptive methods. data source paper writing scientific discourse analysis studens programs papers. results analisysis showed tha...