Enhancing the quality of EAP writing through overt teaching.

• Main Authors: Wee, Roselind, Sim, Jacqueline, Jusoff, Kamaruzaman
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: Canadian Center of Science and Education 2009
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/14494/1/Enhancing%20the%20quality%20of%20EAP%20writing%20through%20overt%20teaching.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/14494/; http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/elt

This paper examines how overt teaching is instrumental in reducing subject-verb agreement (SVA) errors of Malaysian EAP learners which in turn improves the quality of their writing. The researchers used overt teaching of these grammatical items, that is, SVA and investigated how this method has si...