REFORMULATION, TEXT MODELING, AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF EFL ACADEMIC WRITING

<p>This paper mainly investigates the benefits of the implementation of Reformulation and Text Modelling in an EFL writing setting. Reformulation and Text Modeling (henceforth RTM) is intended to help EFL students understand better how to write academic texts to make their texts sound as nativ...

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Main Authors: Teguh Sulistyo, Dwi Fita Heriyawati
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institut Agama Islam Negeri (IAIN) Palangka Raya 2017-03-01
Series:Journal on English as a Foreign Language
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Online Access:http://e-journal.iain-palangkaraya.ac.id/index.php/jefl/article/view/457
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Summary:<p>This paper mainly investigates the benefits of the implementation of Reformulation and Text Modelling in an EFL writing setting. Reformulation and Text Modeling (henceforth RTM) is intended to help EFL students understand better how to write academic texts to make their texts sound as nativelike as possible. Therefore, RTM was implemented in a writing class in which 35 students participated as the respondents of the study. They were treated with RTM and their essays were then analyzed to examine the effects of the implementation of RTM on their writing products. Besides, this study investigated further the students’ perception towards RTM in EFL writing settings. The findings of this study proved that RTM is beneficial to improve students’ writing performances and students have positive perceptions on RTM. The implications of the findings for language learning are also discussed.</p>
ISSN:2088-1657
2502-6615