Very poor Very poor Very poor Very poor Very poor Very poor Very poor Very poor Very poor Very poor Control Group X2 Very poor Very poor Very poor Very poor Very poor Very poor Very poor Very poor Very poor Very poor

Appendices 1. The Average Score in the Experimental and Control Groups with its category a. Experimental Group X1 No Students’ code Score and Category Average score of pre-test Category Average score of Post test Category 1 S-1 38.5 Very poor 46.5 Very poor 2 S-2 37 Very poor

45.5 Very poor

3 S-3 46 Very poor

48.5 Very poor

4 S-4

39.5 Very poor

41 Very poor 5 S-5 46 Very poor 54 Poor 6 S-6

41.5 Very poor

45 Very poor 7 S-7 53 Poor 54 Poor 8 S-8 41.5 Very poor 49 Very poor 9 S-9 43 Very poor 50 Very poor 10 S-10 44.5 Very poor 57 Poor 11 S-11 38 Very poor

44.5 Very poor

12 S-12 43.5 Very poor 51 Poor 13 S-13 45 Very poor 59 Poor 14 S-14 49.5 Very poor 66.5 Fair 15 S-15

45.5 Very poor

55 Poor 16 S-16 46 Very poor 58.5 Poor 17 S-17 42 Very poor 55 Poor 18 S-18 44.5 Very poor 60.5 Fair 19 S-19

48.5 Very poor

48.5 Very poor

20 S-20 44.5 Very poor 49 Very poor 21 S-21

35.5 Very poor

38.5 Very poor

b. Control Group X2

No Students’ code Score and Category Average score of pre-test Category Average score of post test Category 1 S-1 41.5 Very poor 40 Very poor 2 S-2 39 Very poor 38 Very poor 3 S-3

39.5 Very poor

41 Very poor 4 S-4 42 Very poor 42 Very poor 5 S-5

37.5 Very poor

38 Very poor 6 S-6

44.5 Very poor

44 Very poor 7 S-7

42.5 Very poor

42 Very poor 8 S-8 43 Very poor

47.5 Very poor

9 S-9 40 Very poor 40 Very poor 10 S-10

42.5 Very poor

39.5 Very poor

11 S-11 46 Very poor 42 Very poor 12 S-12 42 Very poor 44 Very poor 13 S-13 47 Very poor 44.5 Very poor 14 S-14 43 Very poor 44 Very poor 15 S-15 45.5 Very poor 44 Very poor 16 S-16 39 Very poor 38 Very poor 17 S-17 41 Very poor 40 Very poor 18 S-18

44.5 Very poor

41.5 Very poor

19 S-19 37.5 Very poor 35.5 Very poor 20 S-20 41 Very poor

42.5 Very poor

21 S-21 38.5 Very poor 42 Very poor ESL COMPOSITION PROFILE STUDENT DATE TOPIC 30-27 EXCELLENT TO VERY GOOD: knowledgeable, substantive, thorough development of thesis, relevant to assigned topic 26-21 GOOD TO AVERAGE: some knowledge of subject, adequate range, limited development of thesis, mostly relevant to topic, but lacks detail 21-17 FAIR TO POOR: limited knowledge of subject, little substance, inade- quate development of topic 16-13 VERY POOR: does not show knowledge of subject, non-substantive, not pertinent . OR not enough to evaluate SCORE LEVEL CRITERIA 20-18 EXCELLENT TO VERY GOOD: fluent expression, ideas clearly stated Supported, succinct, well-organized, logical sequencing, cohesive 17-14 GOOD TO AVERAGE: somewhat choppy, loosely organized but main ideas stand out, limited support, logical but incomplete sequencing 13-10 FAIR TO POOR: non-fluent, ideas confused or disconnected, lacks Logical sequencing and development 9-7 VERY POOR: does not communicate . no organization . OR not enough to evaluate COMMENTS 20-18 EXCELLENT TO VERY GOOD: sophisticated range, effective word idiom choice and usage, word form mastery, appropriate register 17-14 GOOD TO AVERAGE: adequate range, occasional errors of wordidiom form, choice, usage but meaning not obscured 13-10 FAIR TO POOR: limited range, frequent errors of wordidiom form, choice, usage, meaning confused or obscured 9-7 VERY POOR: essentially translation, little knowledge of English vocabu- lary, idioms, word form . OR not enough to evaluate 25-22 EXCELLENT TO VERY GOOD: effective complex constructions . few errors of agreement, tense, number, word orderfunction, articles, pro- nouns, prepositions 21-18 GOOD TO AVERAGE: effective but simple constructions . minor pro- blems in complex constructions . several errors of agreement, tense, number, word orderfunction, articles, pronouns, prepositions but meaning seldom obscured 17-11 FAIR TO POOR: major problems in simplecomplex constructions . frequent errors of negation, agreement, tense, number, word order function, articles, pronouns, prepositions andor fragments, run-ons, deletions . meaning confused or obscured 10-5 VERY POOR: virtually no mastery of sentence construction rules . dom- inated by errors . does not communicate . OR not enough to evaluate 5 EXCELLENT TO VERY GOOD: demonstrates mastery of conventions . few errors of spelling, punctuation, capitalization, paragraphing 4 GOOD TO AVERAGE: occasional errors of spelling, punctuation, capitali- zation, paragraphing but meaning not obscured 3 FAIR TO POOR: frequent errors of spelling, punctuation, capitalization, Paragraphing, poor handwriting, meaning confused or obscured 2 VERY POOR: no mastery of conventions, dominated by errors of spell- ing, punctuation, capitalization, paragraphing, handwriting illegible . OR not enough to evaluate TOTAL SCORE READER COMMENTS CON TE N T ORGAN IZA TION VOCA BULAR Y LAN GUA GE US E M ECHA N ICS

2. Analytic scoring of writing