The Role of Process Writing in Meta-discourse Markers

ISBN-13: 9783659632389 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 108 str.

Khoshkholgh Sarah;Akef Kourosh

Opis

There are different approaches for teaching and assessing writing. Lately, the researchers began to consider the process-oriented approach to writing. According to this approach, writing is a generative process. It focuses on the writer and the process or the strategies involved in writing. In this study, the author has attempted to consider the using of meta-discourse markers in process writing oriented-approach classes. This study surveyed to find whether the process writing instruction can be appropriate for using meta-discourse features or the performance of product writing. The results of statistical analysis revealed that the explicit instruction of process writing approach in EFL courses is quite successful for improving application of meta-discourse features in learners writing ability.

O autorze

She has been graduated from the MA in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) from Islamic Azad University Science and Research Branch, Alborz Campus of Iran. She is interested in researching and studying in academic writing, discourse analysis, and psychology of language. She is an instructor and uses her researches results in her classes.