Analyzing the Effects of Lexical Indices on Chinese EFL Students’ English Writing Proficiency

2019 ◽  
Vol 88 ◽  
pp. 299-317
Author(s):  
Jian Yu ◽  
Moongee Jeon
Keyword(s):  
Writing Proficiency ◽  
English Writing ◽  
Efl Students

scholarly journals Error Analysis in the Written Compositions of EFL Students: A Classroom Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 357
Author(s):  
Anjum Chaudhary ◽  
Sahar Al Zahrani
Keyword(s):  
Error Analysis ◽  
Writing Proficiency ◽  
English Writing ◽  
Word Level ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Classroom Study ◽  
Written Compositions

The aim of the study is to analyse the linguistic errors in the writings of EFL students in a Saudi university. For error analysis, the writing tasks of a group of students were collected and analysed. The results showed that the frequently committed errors were at the sentential level as well as the word level. The most frequent errors were the errors of spellings and the least were the errors of demonstratives. The marked errors were categorised as errors of omission, addition, misinformation and misordering. Further analysis of the collected data indicated interlingual interference, intralingual interference, inadequate practice in English writing and carelessness of students as the major sources of the errors. Hence, the study has pedagogical implications as it will help teachers to device appropriate measures for improving the students’ writing proficiency.

The Effectiveness of Internet-based Peer Feedback Training on Chinese EFL College Students' Writing Proficiency

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 34-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiahong Jiang ◽  
Yibing Yu
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Error Correction ◽  
Peer Feedback ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Writing Proficiency ◽  
English Writing ◽  
Feedback Training ◽  
Learning Platform ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Efl College Students

English writing, an indispensable skill in English learning, plays an important role in improving learners' language proficiency. With the wide spread and use of wired or wireless internet, EFL students can easily help and be helped with English writing. Therefore, the application of internet-based peer feedback training on writing to foreign or second language teaching and learning has opened up new possibilities for EFL students to improve their writing. Based on the theory of scaffolding and a computer-aided collaborative learning platform, the present study explored the effectiveness of internet-based PFT on 80-sampled Chinese EFL college students' writing error correction and their writing proficiency improvement. The findings of the study showed that 1) the internet-based PFT had positive effects on the improvement of EFL college students' writing, 2) compared with the more-proficient students, the less-proficient students made greater progress in their writing after the internet-based PFT on error correction and they became more capable of correcting both local errors and global errors, thus raising the quality of their writing error correction, 3) the more-proficient group showed no trust on the received peers' feedback because of the entrenched prejudice that their peers were incompetent for revising English writing.

scholarly journals Enjoying Learning Writing through Facebook Group

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 115
Author(s):  
Zulfadli Abdul Aziz ◽  
Husnul Khatimah
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Situational Interest ◽  
Individual Interest ◽  
English Writing ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Interactive Feedback ◽  
Group 1

This research showed many English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students in Aceh struggle in learning English writing as they had a lack of interest in it. This descriptive qualitative study aimed to find out in what ways Facebook Group might facilitate the enjoyment of the students in learning this skill. The data were collected using interviews and was analyzed through thematic analysis. The interview was done one by one at a time. Ten students from UIN Ar-Raniry were purposely chosen for the interviews in this research. The research findings show that there are four themes found that caused the participants enjoyment of the learning writing in the group: (1) it provides unlimited timing; (2) it facilitates the participants’ freedom and creativity; (3) it provides the interactive feedback; and (4) it helps them in brainstorming the ideas. These four themes directly enhance the students’ situational interest in learning writing that related to an environmental factor, but it results in the development of their individual interest. This research suggests that the teacher should combine the learning process in the classroom with the Facebook group media to fasten the enhancement of the learners’ writing skills. For the learners, it is suggested that they should utilize their social media such as Facebook group not only as their communication media but also for developing their learning in writing.

Discipline specificity and students’ English writing proficiency: A case of collaborative teaching for transfer

TESOL Journal ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Somayeh Biparva Haghighi ◽  
Zohreh G. Shooshtari ◽  
Alireza Jalilifar
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Teaching ◽  
Writing Proficiency ◽  
English Writing

scholarly journals A Study on the Relationship between University Students’ Chinese Writing Proficiency and Their English Writing Proficiency

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoyu Huang ◽  
Xueying Liang ◽  
Effie Dracopoulos
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Positive Transfer ◽  
First Year ◽  
Writing Proficiency ◽  
Significance Level ◽  
English Writing ◽  
Language Writing ◽  
Chinese Writing

Up to now, most researchers have been paying attention to the negative transfer of mother tongue to second language writing. Few studies, if any, have touched upon the positive transfer. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate the positive transfer of Chinese to 26 first-year university students’ English writing holistically and segmentally in the use of words, grammar, coherence, and content and organization. The result of the Pearson correlation coefficient turned out to be 0.43 at the 5% significance level, indicating a positive relationship between the Chinese writing and the English writing. The questionnaires have also confirmed the result of the correlation analysis. In particular, the positive transfer of Chinese seems to be more apparent in the content and organization of the English writing, followed by coherence and use of words. Thus, it can be concluded that the positive transfer of mother tongue can facilitate English writing.

scholarly journals A Study on Critical Thinking Assessment System of College English Writing

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tian Dong ◽  
Lu Yue
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Assessment System ◽  
Writing Proficiency ◽  
College English ◽  
English Writing ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Writing Competence

<p>This research attempts to discuss the validity of introducing the evaluation of students’ critical thinking skills (CTS) into the assessment system of college English writing through an empirical study. In this paper, 30 College English Test Band 4 (CET-4) writing samples were collected and analyzed. Students’ CTS and the final scores of collected writing samples were respectively regarded as two independent variables to make a correlation analysis through Pearson Correlation of SPSS17.0 software. In addition, Excel was also used as an instrument to analyze the research results. The findings suggest that the two variables are significantly and positively correlated with each other, that is, students’ CTS greatly influence their English writing proficiency. Thus, it is quite necessary to cultivate students’ CTS to improve their English writing competence.<strong> </strong></p>

College students’ awareness in organizational strategy use in English writing

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-209
Author(s):  
Shih-Chieh Chien
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
Strategy Use ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Organizational Strategy ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Final Comment ◽  
English Writing ◽  
Written Texts ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
High Achieving

Purpose – The purpose of the study is to look at Chinese English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ organizational strategy use in English writing at universities in Taiwan. One significant area that has been indicated in contrastive rhetoric studies spins around the notion of culturally constructed organizational patterns. It is claimed that second language (L2) writers may have implicit culturally driven presuppositions and values about academic writing in the first language (L1) that may transfer straightforwardly to academic writing in English. Design/methodology/approach – Data were from 50 high- and 50 low-achieving EFL students’ and 50 native English speakers’ (NESs’) written texts, and semi-structured interviews with EFL students and their teachers. Findings – Based on text analysis, when high-achieving EFL students and NESs were compared, they were similar in location of thesis, existence of introduction, existence of topic sentences, macro-level patterns, existence of conclusion, existence of a concluding sentence and existence of a final comment, but different in existence of background information. Nonetheless, it is noted that low-achieving EFL students were quite different from high-achieving EFL students and NESs in several aspects, such as location of thesis, existence of introduction, existence of topic sentences, macro-level patterns, existence of conclusion, existence of a concluding sentence, and existence of a final comment. In addition, the written texts and interview findings suggest that while cultural differences do, in fact, exist, Chinese writers’ English organizational strategy use were to some extent intertwined with their writing experiences and teachers’ writing instructions. The results also suggest the flexibility of writers and multiplicity of writing experiences within a cultural group. Originality/value – The study makes original recommendations for language pedagogy.

scholarly journals ENGAGING WITH EDMODO TO TEACH ENGLISH WRITING OF NARRATIVE TEXTS TO EFL STUDENTS

2018 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 333-349
Author(s):  
Qismullah Yusuf ◽  
Yunisrina Qismullah Yusuf ◽  
Nira Erdiana ◽  
Arif Rizky Pratama
Keyword(s):  
Blended Learning ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Narrative Texts ◽  
English Writing ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Writing Tests

This experimental research aimed to explore the effect of teaching English writing of narrative texts by using Edmodo learning media through blended learning on the tenth-grade students in one of the senior high schools in Banda Aceh, Indonesia. It further looks into the students’ responses on the use of this media in learning English writing of narrative text. To study the development of the students’ writing before and after using Edmodo learning media in the classroom, the writing tests were given to the students. The data were gained quantitatively and qualitatively. The quantitative data were collected from the pre-test, treatments for three class meetings and the post-test, while the qualitative data was collected through the open-ended questionnaire which was distributed to the students after the treatments were done. Statistical formulas were used to calculate the mean, standard deviation, and t-test for the students’ pre-test and post-test scores. The hand coding and computer coding were used to analyze the data from the questionnaire. The results from the analysis of quantitative data showed that there was an improvement in students’ writing of narrative texts; their scores improved from the pre-test to the post-test after treatments with Edmodo were done. Furthermore, the analysis of the questionnaire revealed a majority of positive responses from the students. Those who negatively responded towards the use of this online learning media said that it was due to the necessity of the Internet connection and computers, laptops or mobile phones to operate Edmodo. Not all students have the privilege of possessing such devises and the Internet quota can also be costly. Thus, they recommended the school to provide them with free access to the Internet and computers should learning by using this media is to be continued in the future. Keywords: Blended learning, Edmodo, EFL students, English writing, narrative texts.

scholarly journals “CONSTANT, ZIG-ZAG LINEAR, OR MULTIPLE?”: THEMATIC PROGRESSION PATTERNS ON EFL STUDENTS’ RECOUNT TEXTS

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 172
Author(s):  
Merina Devira ◽  
Makhroji Makhroji ◽  
Allif Syahputra Bania ◽  
Novia Sari
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
English Language ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Dominant Type ◽  
Linear Pattern ◽  
English Writing ◽  
Thematic Progression ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Progression Patterns

The main problem faced by EFL students in writing English texts includes the difficulties to produce a cohesive and coherent text that it seems necessary to show how the tools of Theme and Rheme can be used to help construct the students' good English writing. This study aimed to find out the types of thematic progression patterns in each clause of the recount texts written by students and the dominant pattern of thematic progression revealed from the texts. The research design of this study is a qualitative method which employed the study instrument of the students' recount texts at class IX of SMAN 2 Langsa, Aceh. A content analysis approach by using a Theme and Rheme framework generated from a theory of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) was used to analyze the thematic progression patterns on the students' recount texts, which included several steps: reading the student's texts, identifying the theme and rheme of every clause of the student's text, describing the thematic progression patterns of student's text and drawing the thematic progression pattern on student's text. The findings of the analysis indicated that there are three (3) thematic progression patterns found on the students' recount texts: the Theme Constant, the Theme Zig Zag Linear pattern and Theme Multiple patterns. The dominant type of thematic progression patterns constructed by the students into their recount texts was revealed mostly on 123 constant or reiteration patterns (76.8%), followed by zig-zag patterns of 35 times (21.8%)  and 9 times (1.25%) of multiple patterns. The results of this study will be facilitative as the tools for English language teaching and learning classrooms particularly for writing English texts. 

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