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Table 6 The writing syllabus given to the experimental group

From: The impact of mediated learning on the academic writing performance of medical students in flipped and traditional classrooms: scaffolding techniques

Week

Content

Lesson delivery

1

Introduction/basics of a paragraph

Students were asked to watch video content on “clauses and sentence types”

Verbal

2

1st session

Pre-writing and planning ideas

Verbal

2nd session

Mediation 1: modelling, teacher-student and student-student conferencing offering explicit explanation, internalization

Flipped

3

Building paragraphs with examples (topic sentence, supporting sentences, developing sentences, etc.)

Students were asked to watch video content on “Parallel Structure”

Verbal

4

1st session

Description, narration, classification

Verbal

2nd session

Mediation 2: modelling, joint construction, contextualization, schema-building

Flipped

5

Process paragraph

Students will be asked to watch video content on “Subject-verb Agreement”

Verbal

6

1st session

Process paragraph

Verbal

2nd session

Mediation 3: modelling and deconstruction, teacher-student and student-student conferencing

Flipped

7

Compare and contrast paragraph

Students will be asked to watch video content on “Noun Clauses”

Verbal

8

1st session

Compare and contrast paragraph

Verbal

2nd session

Mediation 4: modelling, bridging, prompting, negotiation

Flipped

9

Argumentative paragraph

Students will be asked to watch video content on “Adverbial Clauses”

Verbal

10

1st session

Argumentative paragraph

Verbal

2nd session

Mediation 5: modelling, bridging, prompting, negotiation

Flipped

11

Cause and effect paragraph

Students will be asked to watch video content on “Adjective Clauses”

Verbal

12

1st session

Cause and effect paragraph

Verbal

2nd session

Mediation 6: modelling, bridging, prompting, negotiation

Flipped

13

Essay writing

Verbal

14

Essay writing

Verbal

15

Essay writing

Verbal

16

Essay writing

Verbal

17

Essay writing

Verbal