Efficacy of Explicit Teaching and Consciousness-Raising in IELTS Writing

This study compares the efficacy of Explicit Teaching and Consciousness-Raising on Iranian EFL learners’ score in IELT Writing Task 1 of Academic Module. Forty five IELTS candidates, placed in two experimental and one control groups, participated in the study. Participants of the explicit group were given detailed instructions on all parts of the Task. For the C-R group, participants were instructed to provide reasons why they chose particular grammatical structures for sentences they had written. Results showed raising students’ consciousness was a more effective way than mere explicit teaching.