This paper reports the initial findings of an ongoing investigation into the summary writing performance of university students in Taiwan. Forty-six students at the high-intermediate and advanced levels of proficiency participated in this study, in which they were asked to read two argumentative English texts and write a summary in English for each source text. Frameworks from Friend (2001), Ri...

The purpose of the present study was to provide empirical support for the construct of the involvement load hypothesis (ILH ) in an EFL context. To fulfill the purpose of the study, 4 intact groups consisting of 126 intermediate-level students participated in this experiment. In order to ensure that the participants were at the same level of English language proficiency, the Nelson test was adm...

The objective of this study was to investigate the effect target cultural knowledge on listening comprehension proficiency Chinese EFL learners. Two groups intermediate-level English language learners participated in study. One group received lessons reading, writing, listening, and speaking, as well a curriculum focused knowledge, specifically culture Britain US. other only without any focus k...

Although story mapping strategy has been shown to be beneficial in many reading comprehension classes, the benefits of this technique have not been thoroughly investigated in L2 writing research. The small number of previous studies (e.g., Li, 2007; Brunner, 2010) have found the potential benefits of using story mapping strategy on students’ writing performance, but they did not focus on differ...

despite the crucial role of introductory sections in argumentative academic writing, the effects of genre- based approaches to writing introductory paragraphs have not been much explored yet. the present study aimed to investigate whether the provision of genre knowledge through modeling and non-modeling could enhance learners’ ability in writing introductory paragraphs of argumentative essays....

This study investigated the impact of social factors and peer tutoring on EFL students’ academic performance. In this research work, strategy was used to examine its effectiveness. Three dimensions ‘reciprocal tutoring, class-wide cross-age tutoring’ were used. The objectives find effectiveness writing fluency accuracy learners investigate advantages disadvantages in skills. population consiste...

Mainland Chinese graduate students in North America generally exhibit a common pattern of English proficiency: academic writing performance greatly exceeds oral performance. Many linguistic, cultural, and educational factors contribute to different aspects of this phenomenon. In this essay, the causalities, along with the main points of understanding and assumptions are analyzed through a liter...

Many studies on the Automated writing evaluation (AWE) Program predominantly focused outcomes of students and comparison between AWE programs. However, investigating students' perception combining an program teacher feedback are still insufficient. This study examined use Grammarly their writing. It also sought to know whether English proficiency level influences perception. The participants in...

In the acquisition of foreign languages, it is a challenge to achieve a near­native level, particularly in academic contexts. This is certainly important in the case of future foreign language teachers, because they are responsible to transfer their knowledge. In this sense, a continuous formation is needed in order to acquire an academic level. However, most of these students finished their un...

The proposed adoption of 'scientific Globish' as a simplified language standard for scholarly communication may appeal to authors who have difficulty with English proficiency. However, Globish might not justify the hopes being pinned on it and might open the door to further deterioration of the quality of English-language scientific writing.