Teaching Writing Through A Reading-based Method To Improve Student’s Academic Achievement

The aims of this article is to investigate the teaching of argumentative writing through reading texts adopting the genre approach, and examines the relationship between the use of connective expressions and the students’ achievement in writing with regard to their scores. Pearson correlation coefficient test shows that there is a positive relationship between the use of connectives and the students’ marks (quality of texts). The results of Cohen kappa coefficient test show negative results, namely, that there is a discrepancy between the scoring of the different (two) raters.