Promoting Literacy And Writing Proficiency Through A Reading-based Method To Improve Academic Achievement

Résumé: As a language skill, writing is very important especially in EFL contexts. EFL students do usually face problems in producing acceptable and communicative stretches of discourse. The aim of this study is to use a method to teaching the skill of writing on a reading-based level and adopting the genre approach to teaching the argumentative text-type. The reason behind that is our belief that texts differ from each other in the way they are written and in the linguistic features writers use to produce communicative texts that are acceptable and convincing to a given discourse community. The main linguistic feature that characterizes the argumentative type of writing is the use of connective expressions to show the flow and the logical relationship between ideas, to show the writer’s moves through her/his text, and above all to achieve coherence. Accordingly, we claim that the more the students use connective expressions in the argumentative type of writing, the better the quality of their texts will be, reflected by the teacher’s assigned marks.

Publié dans la revue: مجلة أنسنة للبحوث و الدراسات