For the written production data, participants' writing tasks were analyzed based on their writing conventions and paragraph organizations.
Based on the principles of DA procedures, participants discussed related resources such as vocabularies, idioms, four-character phrases, and brainstormed possible Chinese paragraph organizations under the teacher's assistance.
To address these issues, the present study examined the impact of the interactionist DA approach on helping three intermediate L2 Chinese learners to develop their conceptual understandings of Chinese paragraph organizations.
The length requirement for each task was around 400 600 words so that the paragraph organization could be easily spotted.
The real source of Evan's writing difficulty was his loose paragraph organization, not his awareness of the construction of the Qi-cheng-zhuan-he method.
Because research articles "tend to be rhetorically standardized with regard to paragraph organization, choice of vocabulary and grammatical means of expression" (Knorr-Cetina, 1981, p. 95), we expect that, if students are able to recognize the rhetorical moves in biomedical research articles, they will also be able to recognize the rhetorical moves in research articles from related disciplines.
The report should be written in plainly-worded, non-technical language and use proper grammar and paragraph organization.
Presentation errors* 1 point per error (erasures, illegible words, inadequacy as to capitalization, spacing and separation of words, etc).. Paragraphing (organization of text content into paragraphs) Considering the text in its entirety, assign: 1 for no division of paragraphs; 2 for inadequate paragraphing; 3, partially adequate paragraphing; and 4 for adequate punctuation (range=1 4).
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