EFL students’ writing

This study delves into the difficulties faced by English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students in essay writing, aiming to explore challenges from both the students’ and the lecturer’s perspectives. EFL learners often encounter obstacles that go beyond language skills, including cultural nuances and unfamiliar academic conventions.

3p vijaychest 16-05-2024 3 1   Download

Writing is very important for learners; it is a dynamic and creative skill. Although studies on students’ problems when writing a dissertation among Native Speakers (NS) are widely done, studies on English as a Foreign Language (EFL) are limited, especially those which examine problems faced while writing dissertations among Ph.D. EFL learners, in particular, Jordanian Ph.D. candidates.

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This paper attempts to summarize major types of errors frequently made by EFL students, investigating their sources and then gives some suggestions for both EFL teachers and learners to improve their writing skills.

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The study suggests integrating self-assessment checklists in EFL writing instruction, emphasizing the advantages of promoting self-regulated learning and empowering students to enhance their writing skills.

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Self-assessment has garnered significant recent attention within the domain of learner-centered education, particularly in the context of English language education. It contributes significantly to improving educational quality by emphasizing the importance of students taking responsibility for their learning and actively participating in assessing their own progress and performance in language learning.

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The most striking findings are (1) they have seen significant improvements in their English essay writing post-test results; (2) in terms of attitudes, students believe QuillBot can improve their essay writing skills, particularly Grammar, Vocabulary, and Cohesion and Coherence, they enjoy their experience with the application, and they are eager to not only continue using QuillBot but also introduce the tool to others.

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The results indicate that the textbook is essentially relevant to the training objectives and the university’s teaching-learning context. Additionally, based on the results of the evaluation, implications for better use of the textbook are proposed, which could improve the quality of English learning and teaching in the EFL context, and achieve the learning outcome according to the six-level Foreign Language Proficiency Framework for Vietnam.

10p vishekhar 25-10-2023 12 7   Download

This paper, therefore, aimed to investigate how ninth graders at a Ho Chi Minh City-based bilingual school self-evaluated their autonomous learning skills during the use of project-based learning in a Media course. Thirty-five students were involved in responding to a questionnaire and writing diaries, and six of them participated in semi-structured interviews.

12p viberkshire 09-08-2023 12 6   Download

This article explored how Vietnamese English as a foreign language (EFL) students used the high frequency verb MAKE in their written opinion essays, with the aim of understanding the patterns of MAKE uses and errors.

19p vistarlord 15-06-2023 8 5   Download

his study investigated the use of lexical collocations and related collocational errors in opinion essays written by Vietnamese English as a foreign language (EFL) students. Each of the fifty second-year English majors at a Vietnamese university wrote an opinion essay as a class writing test in 60 minutes.

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This is a four-week study aimed to investigate the influence of group activities on grammar mistakes of EFL students’ writing. The study was conducted with the random selection of 25 second-year students from non-English major classes at Dong Nai University, in which 13 are female and the rest are male. The study used pre- and post-trial writings, and after-school classes for group activities during the pre-and post-treatment to unveil the result of the study.

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The findings indicate that most students expressed positive attitudes to L2 writing through blogs and that they gave revision-oriented comments to their friends’ drafts. Also, there is evidence that students used peers’ comments in their final drafts. Implications are drawn for language teaching practice.

15p vizhangyiming 14-12-2021 35 4   Download

This research was aimed at fi nding out the implementation of the integrated approach of writing in English for Foreign Language (EFL) context. The approach was set by adjusting three different approaches namely, product, process, and genre approach. There were 20 sophomores students of a private university in Indonesia who became the participants of this study

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The study aims to investigate the kinds of DMs employed by Indonesian and Thai students in their argumentative writing, to compare the use of DMs by both groups in terms of its nature and problems, and to fi nd out whether the use of the DMs produced by Indonesian and Thai students contributes to the coherence of the text they write. The 46 argumentative writings composed by the Indonesian and Thai students were analyzed following Halliday and Hasan (1976) and Halliday and Matthiessen (2004)

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This research investigates how Schoology can facilitate students to apply autonomous learning skills in writing practice, and finds out what student desire in a writing course on Schoology to improve learner autonomy (LA). Participants of the research included 60 grade-10 students who experienced practicing writing skill on Schoology during the first 26 periods of a semester.

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This paper promotes the idea of integrating critical thinking skills in language learning in order to derive learning products in the process of reading and writing for English freshmen in Ha Tinh university. The important key principle here is applying higher order thinking skills in every stage of project done because these skills empower learners to create their own products. The study was conducted on the basis of instruments like seminar, questionnaire survey, observation and interviews.

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The study aimed at finding out: i) the attitudes of both teachers and students at a Vietnamese university as regards the integration of blogs into English writing classes; and ii) their perceived advantages and difficulties in adopting such a way of teaching and learning.

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This study aims to have a more indepth view of the effects of group composition on promoting critical thinking level of ELF students in collaborative writing.

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It is implied from the study’s findings that the critical thinking framework used in this study can be used as a reference tool to develop and assess critical thinking or to design teaching contents with the integration of critical thinking. Reflective journal writing activity can be widely used in EFL content classes, in general, and in EFL literature classes, in particular, to promote students’ critical thinking.

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This study adopted a mixed method integrating corpus techniques and error analysis to investigate Vietnamese EFL learners’ use of conjunction in English writing. The participants were ten-graders of a Hanoi-based high school. The results showed that additive and causal conjunctions were the most frequently used types, and the students encountered challenges mostly in using adversative and causal conjunctions. Besides, omission and misformation are the most common types of errors in the learners’ use of conjunction.

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