Evaluation in the Composition Course

Due to the prominent place composition holds in teaching French to non-native speakers, this article examines the effectiveness of formative evaluation in improving the writing skills of second year students in the department of French language. In addition, by showing the difference in the scoring results between the students who followed the formative evaluation and those who didn’t, this article aims to illustrate the impact of distributing copies of the grading scale to students during the training period.

The Level of Written Comprehension Skills of Orphaned Children in Relation to Some Other Variables A Field Study Conducted in Lattakia

This paper aims at identifying the relation between the level of written comprehension skills and the "sex" variant in orphaned children, in addition to identifying the relation between the written comprehension skills and the orphanhood period. The study has been conducted in Lattakia Governorate, Syrian Arab Republic, particularly during the period between January and September of 2016, through which the researcher applies the descriptive method as it fits the type and purpose of the study. The researcher has arranged a test derived from the Writing activities for ages ranging from 9- 10 years old in the standard curriculum in Syria. The targeted category involves all orphaned children within that range in Lattakia and it was carried out over 175 male and female children. This category has been chosen randomly.