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UTILIZING REFLECTIVE TEACHING STRATEGIES TO DEVELOP EFL IRAQI UNIVERSITY STUDENTS WRITING ABILITY

Tamara Adil Mekki

Volume: 10 Issue: 2 2020

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Most EFL researchers have arrived at the essential fact that when teaching is taken into consideration, it is important to conceive that EFL teachers cannot teach successfully and EFL students cannot learn by obeying routinized and traditional practices, which ultimately decline teaching and learning to a mechanical activity. Yet, when EFL espouse a new reflective standpoint, they are able to reflect upon the difficulties and problems in the learning process and discern how such difficulties and problems are connected with their instructive and social settings. Reflective teaching in particular tends to enhance students' abilities in English language learning since it gets students more involved in their educational problems and help them to find solutions to such problems. This paper aims to show the effect of utilizing reflective teaching strategies on 3rd year students' development in writing essays. 24 students of third year (distributed equally into two groups control and experimental) are chosen to be the sample of the study. Two instruments are utilized to detect students' improvement: observation and tests (pretest and posttest). The study concludes that students' reflection on one another's writing directly and indirectly motivates them to participate in discussions and arguments which consolidate their critical thinking while writing their essays. Further, experimental group, who appeal to reflective teaching strategies, have shown to perform better than control group in expressing their ideas and opinions in their essays

DOI: http://doi.org/10.37648/ijrssh.v10i02.020

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