Summarizing Approach in Improving Academic Writing Skills of ESL Learners

Maria Saleem, Zeeshan Ali Afsar and Shahzad Khan
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Maria Saleem: Phd Scholar, Department of English Linguistics, the Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Pakistan
Zeeshan Ali Afsar: Department of Humanities COMSATS University Islamabad Abbottabad Campus, Pakistan
Shahzad Khan: BS English Literature and Linguistics Government Degree College Gulabad University of Malakand, Pakistan

Journal of Policy Research (JPR), 2022, vol. 8, issue 3, 526-531

Abstract: Students entering higher education are expected to have developed academic writing skills that are up to the standards set by the institution. As a consequence of this, improving one's command of the English language, and in particular, one's command of academic writing at the university level, is absolutely necessary for academic genius. In this regard, this study used an experimental approach to identify the effect of using the summarizing strategy on undergraduates' learners academic writing abilities. The intervention, i.e., the summarizing strategy integrated instruction lasted for around two months, which was carried out in a single-group pre-post-test model only. Subsequently, the scores from both tests, i.e., pre and post-test were analyzed statistically via a t-test. Based on the analysis, the use of summarizing strategy showed a significant increase in the academic writing abilities of ESL learners. Therefore, the study suggests using the summarizing strategy at all educational levels to keep learners up to date in terms of their academic writing abilities.

Keywords: Summarizing technique; academic writing skills; undergraduate level; experimentalstudy; ESL learner (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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