The Effect of Pre-teaching Extended Prefabricated Lexical Bundles on the Writing Development of

Seiyed Mahdi Araghi, Mohammad Yousefi Oskuee, Sara Salehpour

Abstract


This study attempts to shed light on how a teacher’s instruction and guidance can cast aside writing inhibitions and bring about remarkable changes in the writing ability of advanced EFL students through the collaborative construction of extended chunks of language with the aim of enhancing lexical density and complexity and consequently injecting into learners a sense of satisfaction with their work. The sample included 40 TOEFL students selected out of 75 TOEFL students on the basis of their scores on a TOEFL test. The participants were randomly assigned into two groups-the control group and experimental group. After 20 instructional sessions both groups were assigned five writing tasks. The results reveal that the participants in experimental group outperformed their counterparts in control group. Overall, it is concluded that pre-teaching extended prefabricated lexical bundles can be a useful means of helping advanced students to improve their writing quality.


Keywords


Prefabricated lexical bundles, extended prefabricated lexical bundles, negative transfer, writing fluency

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