The Effectiveness of One-way and Two-way Tasks in ESP Writing Courses

Hassan   Banaruee

doi:10.38123/rre.v4i1.413

Authors

Hassan Banaruee University of Education of Weingarten https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8004-7604

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.38123/rre.v4i1.413

Keywords:

one-way task, two-way task, ESP, writing, foreign language teaching

Abstract

The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of one-way and two-way tasks in improving the ability of learners to write about subjects in Economics. To achieve this objective, 32 undergraduate students of Economics were selected for this study. They were divided into two groups, each one consisting of 16 participants. These groups attended two separate ESP writing courses. While the first group was treated by one-way tasks of writing, the second group was treated by two-way tasks. A pretest and a posttest of ESP writing were administered. Scores of participants were analyzed by two paired and two unpaired t-tests. Results obtained by these tests showed that both one-way and two-way tasks were effective in improving ESP writing ability of language learners. However, the effectiveness of two-way tasks was significantly higher than the effectiveness of one-way tasks. The direct role of all participants in the writing of final product is suggested to be one of the main possible reasons behind the effectiveness of two-way tasks. This is the main feature that distinguishes two-way tasks from one-way tasks and makes them superior to one-way tasks for improving writing ability of language learners.

Author Biography

Hassan Banaruee , University of Education of Weingarten

Department of Psychology, University of Education of Weingarten.

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