خلاصة:
This study investigated the impact of writing checklist on composing descriptive essays among EFL learners at the intermediate level. Sixty participants were assigned to experimental and control groups. Both groups were given a pre-test of writing a descriptive essay including 150 words. The experimental group used checklist for learning while the control used teacher correcting technique in each session. Finally, the participants took the post-test of writing descriptive essays at the end of course. Data analysis revealed that the experimental group outperformed the control group. The implications suggest that using the writing checklists could be beneficial in writing activates.
ملخص الجهاز:
Both groups were given a pre-test of writing a descriptive essay including 150 words.
So the present study attempts to explore the effect of writing checklist on composing descriptive essay among EFL learners (Baradaran & Sarfarazi, 2011 ).
Insights gained from such an understanding can help students become familiar with their learning tendencies and preferences and, in turn, oblige educational authorities to design classroom structures and materials that fit and respond directly to those tendencies and assist learners to have a better performance in language skills, especially writing skill the development of which is more dependent on individual practice and participation in the process of converting thought to message.
Checklist practice has an important role for learners in the writing process and can be used while dealing with the variety of language skills.
The second instrument was a pre-test including writing a paragraph of descriptive essay comprising of along 150 words that was selected from textbook "Paragraph Development" (Dorothy & Carlos, 2005).
The results showed that the way of writing students were guided by the checklist in experimental group was different from their usual writing in the control group.
The results at the study are consistent with the findings of Bidabadi and Yamat (2010) who emphasize that, the checklist directs the users to pay attention to not only content but rhetorical structures and language forms.
It can be suggested that checklist use by students may help them to follow the rules in writing descriptive essay.