The
Role of Explicit Teaching in Improving EFL Students’ Writing
Yenni Rozimela
This paper explores the role of explicit teaching
in improving students’ writing in an EFL context. It was derived from the
results of a study conducted to investigate the effects of the genre-based
approach to teaching writing on the students’ writing development. Even though
the study did not merely look at the issue of explicitness, the results could
be claimed as partly due to explicit teaching as one of the main features of
the genre-based approach adopted in this study. For that reason, the discussion
about the role of explicit teaching here cannot be entirely separated from the
genre-based teaching approach. In order to provide the readers with a portrait
of the study and the nuance of explicit teaching embedded in the teaching
approach, a brief account of the study with its results will be given.
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Rozimela, Y. (2004, December). The role of explicit
teaching in improving EFL students’ writing. Paper presented at the
CLaSIC conference,
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