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Reguieg, Fatima Zohra; Hamitouche, Fatiha – Arab World English Journal, 2022
The current research is significant. It aims to improve learners' writing and facilitate their academic achievement. This study examines learners' and teachers' preferences to written corrective feedback types in enhancing EFL learners writing. The main research question is to investigate the likes of teaches and learners regarding written…
Descriptors: Preferences, Written Language, Error Correction, Feedback (Response)
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Sheerah, Hebah Asaad Hamza; Yadav, Meenakshi Sharma; Allah, May Ali Elzein Fadl; Abdin, Ghazwa Jalal – Arab World English Journal, 2022
For ages, teaching and learning face-to-face has been very popular and considered the best way to achieve knowledge and accomplish academic activities. However, during the COVID-19 Pandemic, where on the one side, the whole world was searching for a solution to cope with the situation on the other side online learning demonstrated a substantial…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Electronic Learning
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Alenezi, Sultan Samah A. – Arab World English Journal, 2022
This case study aimed to explore Saudi EFL students' attitudes towards learning writing by using blogging in practicing their writing activities and tasks. It also sought to measure the effectiveness of blogging as an effective approach to enhance student's writing abilities. The participants in this study were five students second-year…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Alshehri, Asmaa; Alasmari, Muhammad; Qasem, Fawaz; Ahmed, Rashad – Arab World English Journal, 2022
Developing a writer's voice is a challenging task for second-language writers who are new not only to the culture but also to the values associated with the target language. This study aims at exploring the writer's voice of Arabic-speaking learners who study English as a Second Language. The study mainly discusses the following question: Do L2…
Descriptors: Arabs, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Mahmood, Rizgar Qasim – Arab World English Journal, 2021
Written Corrective Feedback has been one of the most controversial topics (Waller, 2015), and it has been researched extensively. Still, the lack of research among Kurdish EFL learners made it necessary to conduct the current research. This study focuses on investigating learners' perceptions of written corrective feedback and its types. It…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Feedback (Response)
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Chen, Feng – Arab World English Journal, 2021
Previous studies in genre-based pedagogy mainly concerned with its teaching effects, few studies involved with students' perceptions and attitudes which is actually playing a role in teaching and learning activities. The present study intends to make some explorations in this aspect. A quasi-experimental study to designed to answer the research…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Persuasive Discourse, Teaching Methods, Learning Activities
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Shousha, Amal Ibrahim – Arab World English Journal, 2021
This study aimed to explore the language difficulties faced by English diploma students and provide solutions to overcome them. The data collected in the form of a questionnaire administered to 39 female students were compared in percentages for closed-ended questions and thematically for open-ended ones. Results showed that diploma students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, College Students
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Syahrin, Syerina; Salih, Abdelrahman Abdalla – Arab World English Journal, 2020
This paper aimed to investigate the online learning experience of a group of ESL students at a higher learning institution in Oman during the Covid-19. The paper studied the interaction between the students' preferred online learning style and the technologies the students experienced on the e-learning platform (Moodle) for the particular ESL…
Descriptors: Online Courses, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, COVID-19
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Ratnawati; Faridah, Didih; Anam, Syafiul; Retnaningdyah, Pratiwi – Arab World English Journal, 2018
Academic writing is noteworthy competence to be accomplished for English as a foreign language (EFL) students to fulfill their academic needs at the university. To do so, Indonesian tertiary universities accommodate and foster this competence using academic writing course. The study, therefore, sought to look into: 1. what undergraduate EFL…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Language, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction
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Almatarneh, Anas Hmoud Mohammad; Ab Rashid, Radzuwan; Yunus, Kamariah – Arab World English Journal, 2018
Writing in English for academic purpose is a difficult task for many Jordanian postgraduate students (JPS) as English is a foreign language to them. This study aimed to explore academic writing problems encountered by JPS at a Malaysian university and to investigate how they address the problems. Employing a case study approach, a total of 182…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Skills, Foreign Students, Writing Difficulties
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Tuvachit, Vorakorn; Soontornwipast, Kittitouch – Arab World English Journal, 2018
This study aims to find whether the adapted approaches of writing instructions and alternative assessment could improve the students' academic writing ability. This classroom-based action research was initiated from the observation and reflection of the researchers as English academic writing instructors in tertiary education. It was observed that…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Alternative Assessment, Teaching Methods, Writing Skills
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Alnasser, Suliman Mohammed Nasser – Arab World English Journal, 2018
In the last two decades, a large number of studies have emphasized the significant impact feedback (FB) has on students' writing. This emphasis has replaced the notion that teacher-based feedback (TBF) is the only source of feedback with the notion that there are other sources, such as peer feedback (PF) and computer-based feedback (CBF), that can…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Feedback (Response), Peer Evaluation, Writing Processes