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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Writing skill"”.
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An analysis of the writing skill difficulties of the English Composition I students at the Foreign Language Department of the University of El Salvador
… school to camouflage their lack of reading and writing skills, so it is often difficult for teachers to identify their weaknesses until students hand in papers or take exams. Then writing deficiencies are obvious. For this reason, it is important to say that academic writing involves many …
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Priority-Area Consensus Conferencing: Peer Versus One-to-One, a Study of an Efficient Method for Achieving Significant Improvements in Freshman Writing Apprehension and Writing Skill
… efficient for the instructor who assigns longer writing tasks than Roger Garrison and Kenneth Bruffee generally recommend. Procedure. Attempts were made to match fifty control (teacher review) and fifty experimental (peer review) students by sex, age, career interests, English ACT scores, English …
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Learning strategies used by students of english composition II, semester I 2014 bachelor in english teaching to develop their writing skill, department of foreign languages at the University of El Salvador.
… project addresses the development of the writing skills of students who are learning English as a foreign language. It investigates the strategies that students use to write an essay and the progress they had during the composition II course. As such, it aims to study what writing …
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Poetry in translation to teach ESL composition at the college level
… analyzes and codes the characteristics of their writing as well as the experiences and information reported in their reflective essays about the translation process. Poetry translation is discussed as a way to Honor the L1 and corresponding culture and as a way to facilitate writing skill …
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The Influence of The Task Upon Writing Performance
… to determine whether two different topics (a writing task with general information provided and a writing task with narrowly defined specific information provided) will elicit different qualities and syntactic characteristics of writing from a sample of upper college level students, this study …
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An Exploration of Changes in First-Year College Students' Writing Skills Between High School and the Conclusion of the Composition Course
<p>Effective writing skills are important for success in college, work, and for society. Although there is little argument about the importance of communication skills, there is more debate about whether or not students and graduates are actually attaining these skills. An examination of the impact …
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Writer's workshop: the results when iPads are used by kindergarten students
… of mini lessons were used to teach various writing skill and traits. Qualitative inquiry strategies such as surveys, student interviews, and observations recorded in my teacher research journal were used to collect data. Upon analyzing the data, the factors that most affected data in this …
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Refining academic writing skills for the third year Bcom (accounting) students at a selected university in KwaZulu-Natal
This study investigated the academic writing contests experienced by the third year BCom (Accounting) students at a selected university in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Most of these students are second language users of English, and the language is used as a medium of instruction. This study was …
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Exploring educators’ views on the pedagogy of writing skills in English First Additional Language of the intermediate phase at Hlabisa Circuit
Writing skill is an integral part of teaching and learning. A significant concern in Education is developing good writers, yet in several studies, learners seem to have writing challenges. This study sought to explore teacher's views on the teaching of English First Additional Language writing …
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Teaching and learning writing at primary school: an exploration of writing environments, transcription and text generation
Introduction: Children’s writing skill continues to cause concern. While research into interventions is on-going, little is known about writing in natural classroom environments or the effects of individual differences on everyday performance. This project examined real-life handwritten work in …
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Andragogy in One Community College: A Study of Students' Attitudes and Perceptions Toward Reading and Writing Following the Completion of a Concurrent Acquisition One-Semester Developmental English Course
… and perceptions changed toward reading and writing after participation in and completion of a one-semester dual-enrollment mandatory developmental non-credit reading and/or writing course combined with a concurrent acquisition general education three-credit-hour English 101 course.</p><p>The …
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The novels of Charles Brockden Brown: irony and illusion
… study of Brown emphasizes his dedication to his writing, no matter how casually they dismiss the results–a pursuit of writing skill reflected in the naive dreams of poetic utopias to be found in his youth, his nightly practice in his journals, his outburst of novel writing, and his editing and …
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From a young Bolshevik to a professional writer : A critical study of Wang Meng 's novels with reference to his writing from the 1950s to the 1990s
… locate them within the Chinese tradition in his writing. It would be hard to think of another writer in China that could compare with Wang Meng, in terms of his rich and highly productive literary works; his complex and unusual personal life experiences; his consummate writing skill; his writing …
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Towards ‘Skill’ and ‘Will’: Using Hope-infused Strategy Instruction in the English Writing Classroom at Chinese Universities
… mediated pragmatics, and so on in English writing. Very few Chinese teachers have employed writing Strategy Instruction (SI) in the classroom and examined how students learn and use strategies, despite a growing body of empirical evidence which suggests the effectiveness of SI in …
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E.K.K. Matlala : Mongwadi Wa Ditaodišo Tša Mathomo Tša Sepedi (Sepedi)
… this reason, it can be argued that Matlala is a skilled author of Sepedi essays. His skill becomes clear in an analysis of his essays, which shows that he arranges them to be in line with a clear structure, namely title, introduction, body and conclusion. This structure is generally accepted as …
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The Sterne voyage of the <i>Pequod</i>: the tale of a tub in American literature
… from the commonly held norm. The outspoken wags writing the literature of laughter, when perceived to be less a band of heretical brigands, daring traditional scholarship's proven methods and testing the patience of critics, than a fellowship of ludic logocrats, fully conscious of their …