Writing strategy instruction to improve writing performance of Bangladeshi EFL learners : a case study
Writing is one of the most difficult skills for English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learner to acquire. This skill becomes more difficult for a Bangladeshi EFL learner when he opts to pursue higher studies and is evaluated through the skill of writing in English. This article presents the findin...
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Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2018
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Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/20827/1/28041-85381-1-SM.pdf http://journalarticle.ukm.my/20827/ https://ejournal.ukm.my/ebangi/issue/view/1122 |
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Summary: | Writing is one of the most difficult skills for English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learner to acquire.
This skill becomes more difficult for a Bangladeshi EFL learner when he opts to pursue higher studies
and is evaluated through the skill of writing in English. This article presents the findings of an
experimental case study of writing strategy instruction on the learners’ performance for writing a listing
paragraph. The study was conducted on 43 undergraduate level EFL learners majoring in English
Language and Literature in International Islamic University Chittagong, Bangladesh. The results
demonstrated a positive result for the Bangladeshi EFL learners. The learners are able to write listing
paragraphs effectively after the writing strategy instruction. Most of the learners’ written listing
paragraphs had more organizational features such as topic sentence, supporting sentences, cohesive
devices, concluding signal and concluding sentence. Furthermore, the post-test paragraphs showed
fewer errors in terms of subject-verb agreement, use of tense and sentence structure among others.
Additionally, the learners scored higher marks based on the evaluation of the raters. The results draw
attention to the advantages of writing strategy instruction to write listing paragraph for significant
achievements such as maintaining organizational aspects and grammatical correctness. |
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