Investigating the effect of mentor texts on learners’ writing achievement
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2017
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university of Oum- El- Bouaghi
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With the recent development of language teaching, researches in language methodology have become prominent in a foreign language teaching and learning. Therefore, teachers of English as a foreign language took the responsibility of developing effective strategies to encourage learners develop their writing skills in the target language. The present research investigates the effect of mentor texts on the writing achievements through a quasi-experimental design. The sample of this study is second year middle school pupils at Abdelhamid Ibn Badis middle school. The sample was split into two groups (experimental and control groups) of 20 students out of 100 students. Both groups were pretested and went through the treatment periods. Students of the experimental group performed the task with the reading aloud session of the mentor text, while the ones in the control group worked individually. At the end of the treatment, the two groups were post-tested. To add more validity to the results of the study, t tests were administered. The results showed that mentor texts method was significantly effective in improving learners' writing achievement. Thus, the hypothesis of this study was confirmed.
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Language teaching, Foreign language, Language methodology