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Ching-Ni Hsieh – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2024
This study examined the role of writing task types and L2 reading proficiency on young English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' writing performances. The participants were 185 students (Grades 7 and 8) from Denmark, Finland, and the Netherlands. The students responded to a descriptive and an email writing tasks that assessed their writing…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Task Analysis, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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McMaster, Kristen L.; Campbell, Heather – School Psychology Review, 2008
The purpose of this study was to examine technical features of new and existing curriculum-based measures of written expression in terms of writing task, duration, and scoring procedures. Twenty-five third-, 43 fifth-, and 55 seventh-graders completed passage-copying tasks in 1.5 min and picture, narrative, and expository writing prompts in 3-7…
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Curriculum Based Assessment, Predictive Validity, Scoring