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The effects of free writing on english majors’ writing skill
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Free writing is an activity to help learners of English improve their fluency in learning writing skill by freeing their thoughts and ideas from worrying about all rules in writing academic English. They can, therefore, concentrate on writing down their own thoughts freely. During this activity, learners write nonstop about a given topic within 10 – 15 minutes or more without worrying about errors in English grammar, vocabulary or writing conventions. This article aims to address the research findings via the activity on second-year English majors at Foreign Language Education Faculty in Dong Thap University. The results show that this activity helps enhance learners’ writing fluency, and also gets their positive feedback.
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free writing, writing fluency, writing skills
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