The present study aimed to investigate EFL teachers' familiarity with Effective Writing Approache... more The present study aimed to investigate EFL teachers' familiarity with Effective Writing Approaches. The sample consisted of 100 EFL teachers in Jordan. An instrument was used to collect data: a questionnaire used to identify EFL teachers' familiarity with Effective Writing Approaches. Research findings revealed that EFL teachers' familiarity with the instructional strategies was middle, That is, teachers used eclectic ways of teaching writing; but they often use the product approach, as it does not need much preparation and time and teachers are not often prepared to apply the process approach. Based on the findings, it is recommended that in-service training programs focusing on how and when to use effective writing approaches should be provided.
The present study aims at analyzing 33 English paragraphs written by first-year students at Arab ... more The present study aims at analyzing 33 English paragraphs written by first-year students at Arab Open University in Jordan. The participants are from different academic majors, and, all the participants are English foreign language students and face challenges in learning the English language. The tool of the current study was the participants' written paragraphs. All errors committed by the participants were analyzed and classified into different categories. The results showed that the most frequent error category was omission and addition, and the errors committed by the participants are attributed to intralingual difficulties due to the deformation of language learning as well as limited interlingual errors. In the light of the obtained results, several recommendations and pedagogical implications were suggested in order to help instructors and teachers in general in their efforts in lessening the obstacles regarding writing paragraphs in the English language.
The present study aimed to investigate EFL teachers' familiarity with Effective Writing Approache... more The present study aimed to investigate EFL teachers' familiarity with Effective Writing Approaches. The sample consisted of 100 EFL teachers in Jordan. An instrument was used to collect data: a questionnaire used to identify EFL teachers' familiarity with Effective Writing Approaches. Research findings revealed that EFL teachers' familiarity with the instructional strategies was middle, That is, teachers used eclectic ways of teaching writing; but they often use the product approach, as it does not need much preparation and time and teachers are not often prepared to apply the process approach. Based on the findings, it is recommended that in-service training programs focusing on how and when to use effective writing approaches should be provided.
The present study aims at analyzing 33 English paragraphs written by first-year students at Arab ... more The present study aims at analyzing 33 English paragraphs written by first-year students at Arab Open University in Jordan. The participants are from different academic majors, and, all the participants are English foreign language students and face challenges in learning the English language. The tool of the current study was the participants' written paragraphs. All errors committed by the participants were analyzed and classified into different categories. The results showed that the most frequent error category was omission and addition, and the errors committed by the participants are attributed to intralingual difficulties due to the deformation of language learning as well as limited interlingual errors. In the light of the obtained results, several recommendations and pedagogical implications were suggested in order to help instructors and teachers in general in their efforts in lessening the obstacles regarding writing paragraphs in the English language.
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