Analytic assessment of writing: diagnosing areas of strength and weakness in the writing of TESL undergraduate students

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Analytic assessment of writing: diagnosing areas of strength and weakness in the writing of TESL undergraduate students

The aim of this study was to find out the contribution of each writing component to the variance of overall writing performance. Writing samples were collected from 128 students majoring in Teaching English as a Second Language at Universiti Putra Malaysia. The analytic scoring scale of Weir (1990)...

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Main Authors:	Ahour, Touran, Mukundan, Jayakaran
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	EBSCO Publishing 2009
Online Access:	http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/13098/ http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/13098/1/Analytic%20assessment%20of%20writing%20diagnosing%20areas%20of%20strength%20and%20weakness%20in%20the%20writing%20of%20TESL%20undergraduate%20students.pdf

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