Fatimah Dinna Mohd. Din
Pusat Bahasa
Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM)

Date: 26 October 2001
Time: 11.30-12.00
 

This paper involves two parts.  The first part describes a research study that involved the transference and application of knowledge and skills across ESL reading and writing in an integrated context.  The study examined the effects of teaching cause/effect, comparison/contrast and process/procedure structures of expository text on the reading and writing ability of skilled and less-skilled ESL readers.  The factors investigated were  reading ability (skilled l ess-skilled), summarizing condition (with text- present / text-absent) and type of writing (free / guided).  The study also examined reader-based variables (language proficiency: intermediate level and reading ability: skilled / less-skilled) and text-based variables (expository text structures: cause / effect, comparison/contrast and process/procedure) and types of ideas (superordinate /subordinate/extraneous). The second part of the paper discusses the research  study in term of the features and characteristics that are quantitative and qualitative in nature.