The Effect of Text Structure Instruction on Improving Tenth Grade Female Students’ Expository Writing

Abstract

This study aimed at investigating the effect of text structure instruction on tenth grade female students’ expository writing in Jordan. The researchers prepared a list that included sections of expository writing; which are (introduction, body, conclusion, and writing style). and a set of skills (function indicators). The researchers also constructed a test to measure the performance of the students in expository writing sections. The test consisted of a set of questions. Each question contains a statement or paragraph, that considered as stimulation for students’ thinking and a function indicator refers to expository writing. The researchers also developed a standard for evaluating the performance of the test. The subjects of the study consisted of (91) female Students, who were divided into two classes, for the academic year (2014/2015) and the two groups purposefully selected. The Experimental group (46) was studies the reading texts in a text structure manner and the control group (45) studies the texts by conventional method. The results showed a statistically significant differences between the means of the performance of study subjects in each section of the four expository writing sections, in the favor of  experimental group