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This study investigated the effects of a discourse approach to reading on the academic writing skills of secondary ESL students on their ability to transfer their discourse skills from reading to writing. Two groups (experimental and control) each consisting of 30 high school students were involved in this study. The instruments used were the Comprehensive English Language Test, a researcher-prepared writing pretest, and another researcher-prepared writing posttest. The 480 writing compositions written by the two groups of subjects were first analyzed using Crombie’s model of discourse analysis. Then, the numerical data were subjected to the statistical measures of t-test (for correlated and independent samples) and one-way ANCOVA. The study concluded that discourse approach to reading facilitates transfer of discourse skills from reading to writing
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