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    Improving Students’ Achievement In Academic Writing Through Homework Case Study: First Year LMD Students of English Language at Batna University. Doctorat thesis,(2020) Université de Batna 2.
    (University of Batna 2, 1/27/2021) ZIDANI Soraya
    Most first year EFL students find difficulties to master most components of academic writing skill and to produce correct papers. Althougha myriad of studies hasaddressed their poor performance in writing skill, teachers are still suffering to develop students’ academic writing and to raise their understanding of the importance of processing academic essay writing. To do so, additional practice and time are required to be integrated in foreign language (FL) classes of BatnaUniversity. Instead, homework assignments display its practical application that can develop academic writing in terms of practicing English writing. The present thesis is administered to investigate the effects of integrating this instructional activity into FL classes of writing. It further tries to give a clear picture about its effects on the five components of essay academic writing: content, organization, vocabulary, language use and mechanics. The present thesis presents quantitative and qualitative research conducted through calculating the t-test with the two groups: experimental and control, and analyzing of students’ questionnaires and teachers’ interviews. First year students (N=60) participate in the present research work: (N=30) students form the experimental group, and (N=30) students form the control group. The findings of the data analyses showed that students who took home assignments along with effective teachers’ feedback performed better than those who did not. Recommendations were made to teachers and students on the need to recon with take home assignments to improve students’ academic writing performance. Keywords: academic writing, homework assignments, quantitative research,qualitative research, feedback