Paragraph Writing

Familiarity and competence in organization and style or genre of paragraphs and texts is important in developing student's writing skill. Meyer, Brandt, and Bluth (1980) belive that " foreign or second language learners who are unfamiliar with text or paragraph organization and genre are at a disadvantage because they do not have any approaches in planning the text". In this article, the researcher try to make the students familiar with the organization and style or genre of paragraphs and text by teaching them paragraph writing styles and genres in first language. The finding proves that paragraph writing in first language can be useful and can positively affect the writing skill of student writers. This research also tell the reader that female students performance is better than the males students.

Citation :

Daneshvari, M., & Davoudi, M. (2016). The Effect of Teaching Paragraph Writing in L1 on Iranian Adult EFL Learners’ Writing Ability. International Journal of Linguistics, 8(6), 214-232.