Impact of Expository Text Patterns Manipulation on Iranian EFL Learn-ers’ Expository Text Writing

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safieh Fallahi Dehpahni ¹ , Abbas Bayat ² , Faramarz Aziz Malayeri ³

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Received: 2024-03-02 Accepted : 2024-05-09 Published : 2025-09-15

Keywords: Expository text, Expository text patterns, Expository writing, EFL learners,

Abstract :

The focus of the current study was to investigate the impact of expository patterns instruction on expository writing development among Iranian intermediate EFL learners within gender and level of Proficiency. Accordingly, 125 male and female learners out of 250 EFL learners nested in five groups, intact institute classes, were selected based on PET (Preliminary English Test) scores. Participants were male and female learners divided into four experimental groups and a control group. Having gone through a factorial quasi – experimental research design and the sta-tistical analysis procedures analysis of covariance and MANOVA, the study yielded the follow-ing results :(a) The subjects, who had the opportunity to receive expository patterns instruction as the treatment of the study, outperformed the subjects with lack of treatment. Therefore, the researcher came to conclusion that the application of expository patterns manipulation had a greater meaningful effect on the writing performance of EFL learners. (b) The findings also in-dicated that male groups outperformed female groups in their achievements in term of writing development processes. (c) The expository patterns scores are similar for students with different proficiency levels of low and high intermediate levels; leading to the conclusion that writing ex-pository texts through expository patterns was not affected by the levels of proficiency. The findings of this research will have significant outcomes for the learners, teachers as well as ma-terial developers and syllabus designers.

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