Developing Research Paper Writing Programs for EFL/ESL Undergraduate Students Using Process Genre Approach

Abstract

Research Paper Writing (RPW) plays a key role in completingall research work. Poor writing could lead to the postponement of publications. Therefore, it is necessary todevelop a program of (RPW) to improve RPW ability for EFL/ESL writers, especially for undergraduate students in Higher Education (HE) institutions, which has caught less attention of curriculum developers so far. Therefore, this studyaims to determine the core components of (RPW) program perceived as essential for EFL/ESL undergraduate studentsusing Process Genre Approach (PGA) to develop a program of RPW. The Delphi Technique (DT) was used to validate those components through the interviews of experts including two boards of ten experienced and qualified lecturers of TESOL and curriculum studies in Can Tho University (CTU) in Vietnam and UniversitiSains Malaysia (USM). The results revealed that the corecomponents of RPW programfor EFL/ESL undergraduate students were determined and confirmed. This paper is therefore believed to make a great contribution to practical applications for RPW program developers, lecturers, undergraduate and postgraduate students in EFL/ESL contexts.

Determining the Effectiveness of the Process Genre Approach in Increasing and Decreasing Saudi EFL University Students’ Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency in Reaction Essays

“…In summary, the findings of this study were somewhat contradictory to the previous findings of related studies that supported the effectiveness of the process genre approach (e.g., Badger & White, 2000;Garnica & Torres, 2015;Handayani & Siregar, 2013;Tuyen, Osman, Dan, & Ahmad, 2016). This study provided conclusive evidence for the approach not being fully efficient in developing EFL learners' CAF.…”

“…The present study has shown only a partial impact of the process genre approach on Saudi advanced EFL undergraduates' reactions, production accuracy, and lexical variation. Most of the previously mentioned findings showed that the process genre approach was meaningfully effective in developing the writing skills of EFL learners (e.g., Arteaga-Lara, 2017;Handayani & Siregar, 2013;Tuyen, Osman, Dan, & Ahmad, 2016;Voon, 2007;Zhang, 2018). Such partial evidence can be supported by the recent research findings that advocate activating the use of the process genre approach to improve learners' CAF constructs.…”

“…These pioneering studies concerning the process genre approach, carried out by linguistics researchers, have inspired EFL applied linguistics research. EFL writing development research has reported the effectiveness of the process genre approach in enhancing the writing competence of EFL learners (e.g., Babalola, 2012;Garnica & Torres, 2015;Handayani & Siregar, 2013;Tuyen, Osman, Dan, & Ahmad, 2016;Voon, 2007). For example, Arteaga-Lara (2017) conducted a study to examine the effectiveness of the process genre approach for developing fourth grade EFL learners in writing narrative paragraphs.…”

A Process Genre Approach to Teaching Report Writing to Arab EFL Computer Science Students

“…Even though this approach has been studied in many EFL contexts (e.g., Babalola, 2012;Gupitasari, 2013;Pujianto, Emilia, & Ihrom, 2014;Tuyen, 2016;Ghufron, 2016;Saputra & Marzulina, 2016), to the best of the researcher's knowledge no records have been found for studies in the Yemeni or any other Arab EFL context. This research paper, therefore, attempts to study the use of the PGA in teaching report writing for Yemeni EFL students in a computer science department.…”

“…The findings revealed improvements in the quality of student writing using PGA. Tuyen, Osman, Dan, & Ahmad (2016) aimed at determining the core components of Research Paper Writing (RPW) program for EFL/ ESL students using Process Genre Approach. Employing Delphi Technique, data from interviews with experts from a university in Vietnam and another one from Malaysia were analyzed.…”