Investigating the Relationship between Grammatical Competence and EFL (English as a Foreign Language) Learners’ Writing Quality

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This research is, first and foremost, an evaluative study. It has been an attempt to investigate the correlation between grammatical competence of some Sudanese university students and their overall writing quality in English. Since grammar is assumed to be one of the most fundamental components of language, this study has endeavored to shed some light on the impact of grammatical adequacy on the writing standard of the university students in English.The main objective of the study is introducing the major causes of learners'textual and grammatical weakness in the light of their integration with a purpose of proposing appropriate learning strategies based on learner-centered activities as well as establishing writing-oriented and grammar-directed courses in order to overcome students' disabilities.The research data have been obtained from two sources of instruments:grammatical competence test and writing competence test both of which have been conducted among the fourth year students of English departments of three academic faculties of two national universities, including Faculty of Arts, University of Juba, Faculty of Education, University of Juba and Faculty of Education of Sudan University of Science and Technology. The research sample consisted of 134 English major students enrolled as full-time learners in the above university faculties. The data have been computed and statistically analyzed by using the Statistical Package for Social Science(SPSS) program, version 10.5.The result have shown that although the overall performance of all the students on both tests was found to be poor, the most grammatically competent students have proved to be the best student-writers, in that, they have written better essays than their peers. The result have also shown that this poor register of students' performance in both tests can be largely attributed to their low awareness of the relevant EFL grammatical and composing rules and, that, students' writing proficiency would not be improved by learning only grammatical items, rather, other aspects of language have to be considered. The research findings have also revealed that most of the students' deficiency in the grammatical test was associated with the grammatical areas of tensing affixation, passivisation, reported sentences and phrasal verbs whereas most of their problematic aspects of the written testhave focused on the major composing conventions as regards punctuation, connectives, grammar knowledge, lexicon, spelling and handwriting, and that only the most competent students were able to deal appropriately with such grammatical and composing properties. Similarly, the findings did confirm the research hypotheses.The study recommends that EFL instruction in Sudanese universities and higherinstitutes be based on well-organized grammar-directed and writing-centered courses independently of the students' basic grammar and writing courses, and that EFL departments be provided with technology-based materials such as computers and digital video conferences. It also recommends that learner-centers methods of instruction be adopted with a view to making students self-sufficient writers and grammarians. Further, it recommends the teachers to contribute actively to creating the valid psychological classroom environment of the so-called "Free Writing" in which students feel relax, enthusiastic and more motivated when handling the writing tasks.

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f7f84cfa-3b82-44c8-aed8-7af10fe77a9c

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نوع الوسائط

Crawler

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الرسائل العلمية

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رسائل ماجيستير

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pdf text

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1635258_1.pdf

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English

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Investigating the Relationship between Grammatical Competence and EFL (English as a Foreign Language) Learners’ Writing Quality

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عبدالرحيم مقدم

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أحمد إسحاق آدم شطا

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