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The goal of this study was to see whether task-based instruction could enhance EFL students’ writing fluency and accuracy. Sixty grade 11 students from two complete classrooms at Dai An High School in Tra Vinh Province, Vietnam, participated in this research. The experimental group was taught to write essays using task-based training, whereas the control…
E-learning is being widely deployed and gradually becoming a popular form of teaching in universities today. To achieve the quality of e-learning teaching requires the impact of many factors, in which the e-learning environment of students is important. This paper explored experiences on e-learning environment of students of The University of Danang – University of…
Peer feedback is proved to be effective in helping enhance students’ writing quality, but few studies were employed to train high school students to be better peer reviewers. The current study involved 64 grade-11 students in a province in Vietnam to see whether trained peer feedback could be effective for high school students. The experimental…
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The current study adopted features of a survey research design to examine the EFL high school teachers’ beliefs about writing and its teaching, their actual classroom practices, and the interplays between their beliefs and practices in the realm of EFL writing instruction. A sample of seventy-six EFL teachers from the eight selected high schools situated…
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Writing is a challenging and demanding skill for EFL learners in Vietnam. Teaching writing skills at Vietnamese universities is problematic since different approaches to writing have not been implemented effectively. Mainly, a genre-based approach to writing has not yet been implemented in EFL writing classrooms successfully. This paper investigates how the genre-based writing approach has…
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Trên thế giới, và đặc biệt ở Việt Nam, đang phải trải qua một cơn đại dịch khủng khiếp, cướp đi hàng triệu sinh mạng của những người bị dương tính. Những ngày này, chúng ta hay nghe thấy những tiếng xe cứu thương chạy suốt ngày để đưa những người bị dương tính Corona…
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The purpose of this research was to determine if task-based teaching improved EFL students’ writing performance in terms of fluency and accuracy. The research included 56 non-English majors at Van Lang University in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The control group learned to write paragraphs using a product-based approach, which corresponded to existing teaching methods…
Abstract In Vietnam, grammar has been taught with conventional teaching methods such as the Grammar Translation Method and Audio Lingual Method, which still focus on paper-based grammar exercises in high schools. These traditional methods demotivate students’ learning interest and motivation and fail to increase their independent learning and the effectiveness of grammar instruction. The purpose…
Extensive research on E-peer comments was undertaken by researchers from all over the world. However, no studies were undertaken to compare lecturer e-comments to e-peer comments in order to improve e-peer comments. In addition, the consequences of the lecturer’s e-feedback or e-comments on student composition revision and e-peer commenting abilities have received little attention. The…
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Mỗi ngày qua đi thì cuộc sống của chúng ta lại bị mất một ngày. Và khi nhìn lại từng ngày qua đi, mỗi người chúng ta lại tự hỏi, ngày hôm nay mình có làm được gì không? Nếu được thì làm được bao nhiều? Những điều chúng ta làm có ý nghĩa hay…
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