El-Tawassol التواصل
Volume 26, Numéro 2, Pages 470-479
2023-02-28

A Study Of The Systemic Functional Revisions In Efl Academic Writing

Authors : Hamzaoui Aissa . Hamlaoui Naima .

Abstract

This study approaches the dynamic systemic functional description of written academic text through a rigorous endeavour into revisions produced by EFL poor and good student writers. To this end, relying on a questionnaire, this study makes use of students’ own evaluation of their writing in order to understand how poor and good writers functionally revise the draft(s) of their essays. By understanding how these writers revise text in light of academic expectations, this study add to the already existing descriptions of EFL writers’ revision behaviour. The results of this study may help in designing activities on functional basis so as to help poor writers become better writers.

Keywords

Revisions ; Systemic Functional Linguistics ; English as a Foreign Language ; Thematic Progression ; Writer