Investigating the Impact of Multimedia-aided Coherence Teaching on the Quality of EFL Writing in Sulaymani City

Volume 21 , Issue 2 , November 2020 , Pages 543-559

Authors

لؤي سلمان جاجي 1 ; Hoshang Faruq Jawad 2

1 MA Student in ELT University of Sulaimani

2 PhD in English Language & Linguistics University of Sulaimani

DOI logo 10.17656/jzsb.11034

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Abstract

The present study is an extract from an MA dissertation. The study aimed to investigate the impact
of teaching coherence elements explicitly based on Lee’s (2002) model, and the effect of teaching
coherence elements integrated with videos as a stimulus tool on the quality of participants’ writing.
The study followed quantitative method research design utilising textual and statistical analysis of
students’ writings. 90 writing papers taken from 45 EFL students who studied English for general
purposes in three language centres in Sulaymaniyah city, Kurdistan Region, Iraq were involved in the
study. The main study findings showed that teaching coherence explicitly and teaching coherence
integrated with videos as a stimulus tool significantly improve the quality of the students’ writing
compared to teaching writing via ELT textbooks taught in those EFL courses. The findings also
showed that the two proposed ways of teaching coherence helped participants to have better
performance in developing their ideas, organising their paragraphs, establishing more logical relations
between sentences, using different cohesive devices judiciously to show relations between ideas and
indicating their opinions explicitly in their writings. Adopting the suggested approaches of teaching
coherence in this study may positively improve students’ writing in English language courses for
general purposes. The findings of the study may also help writing EFL curricula designers change
their approaches to writing by integrating coherence elements and multimedia-based instructional
tasks and activities into ELT textbooks and equip EFL teachers with a range of writing strategies that
can be used in EFL classrooms.

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