Volume 27, No. 2 Special Issue: Connections between Second Language Reading and Writing Improving EFL learners' writing through enhanced extensive reading

Improving EFL learners' writing through enhanced extensive reading

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Volume 27, No. 2 Special Issue: Connections between Second Language Reading and Writing
contributor.author:
Mermelstein, Aaron David
date.accessioned:
2020-05-22T02:21:38Z
date.available:
2020-05-22T02:21:38Z
date.issued:
2015-10
description.abstract:
This study’s purpose is to seek out methods of improving reading and writing for EFL learners. This one-year study focuses on an enhanced design of extensive reading (ER) towards improving learners’ writing abilities. Pre- and posttests used the Jacobs, Zingraf, Wormoth, Hartfield, and Hughey (1981) measurement of writing, including content, organization, vocabulary, language use, and mechanics. A sixth subscale, fluency, was also added. The results indicate significant differences in gains on all of the subscales favoring the treatment group. A measurement of effect size also demonstrated small to large effects across the six subscales. This study demonstrates that an enhancement of previously established ER protocols can achieve significant gains and sizable effects among learners.
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endingpage:
198
identifier.doi:
10125/66890
identifier.issn:
1539-0578
identifier.uri:
http://hdl.handle.net/10125/66890
number:
2
publisher:
University of Hawaii National Foreign Language Resource Center Center for Language & Technology
rfl.topic:
Extensive Reading
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/rfl/item/326
startingpage:
182
subject:
extensive reading writing English as a foreign language
title:
Improving EFL learners' writing through enhanced extensive reading
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Special
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Text
volume:
27