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Li, Chili; Wang, Yuehua; Qian, Long; Shang, Zhenru – English Language Teaching, 2022
This paper reports on the results of a quantitative study that was aimed to measure the use of socio-cultural strategies in learning English writing among a group of 155 Chinese university English major students. This quantitative survey was informed by the socio-cultural theory that holds that L2 learning is a mediational process in which a…
Descriptors: Writing Strategies, Sociocultural Patterns, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Chen, Jiliang; Li, Lanlan; Shen, Yalin; Li, Haoxia – English Language Teaching, 2022
This study is intended to explore the influence of partners' L2 proficiency on test-takers' performance and on their interaction patterns in paired oral assessment, and it tries to analyze the underlying causes on the basis of Vygotsky's theory of the zone of proximal development (ZPD) and Storch's patterns of interaction. An experiment including…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Language Tests, Oral Language, Sociocultural Patterns