چکیده:
Being expert in establishing cohesion and coherence in writing is not an easy
task. The EFL learners are to pass through very long, uneven paths such as précis
exercise to achieve this skill. The present study was launched to explore the
effect of précis writing on the creation of a compact text. To this end, a trueexperimental
method of research with the pretest-posttest control design was
employed. Via double-stage sampling, 40 female students were selected at
Fatemeh-al-Zahra High School in Kabutarahang, Hamedan, Iran. The control
group was taught some grammatical structures such as active and passive voices,
reduced adjective clauses, and different tenses in English during twelve sessions;
while the experimental group received a lesson plan consisting of twelve
sessions of précis writing. To analyze the data collected via pretest and posttest,
analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was run. The findings of the study indicated
that the participants in the experimental group performed better in producing
cohesive and qualified texts than those in the control group. The conclusion
drawn was that teaching précis, as a basic skill, can improve the writing ability
and provide the students with more opportunities to utilize the cohesive devices
and consequently produce more cohesive pieces of text.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Effect of Précis Writing Instruction on the Creation of Cohesive Text by Iranian High School EFL Learners Lotfollah Karimi 1*, Ma’soomeh Touraji Regheb 2 1, 2.
The conclusion drawn was that teaching précis, as a basic skill, can improve the writing ability and provide the students with more opportunities to utilize the cohesive devices and consequently produce more cohesive pieces of text.
The results showed that the use of grammatical cohesive devices by second- year Students of English at the Department of Foreign Languages, University of Mentouri, Constantine, was quite enough.
Hence, the following research question was raised: Does précis writing have positive effect on the high school students’ creation of cohesive texts?
Discussion The results revealed that précis practice done by the participants of the experimental group had significant effect on their creation of cohesive text, F(1,37) = 233.
Regarding the question whether précis writing instruction positively affects Iranian high school EFL learners' creation of cohesive text, the findings revealed that teaching précis strategies improved the learners’ writing skill, for the experimental group’s mean score (9.
A fair inference from the literature reviewed and the results of analyzing the data related to the study is that introducing the concepts of cohesion, coherence, cohesive devices, and précis writing strategies to language learners is both theoretically and practically of high importance as far as writing skill, especially creating a piece of cohesive text is concerned.