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Secondary School Students' Discourse Synthesis Performance on Chinese (L1) and English (L2) Integrated Writing Assessments
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Zhu, Xinhua; Li, Guan Ying; Cheong, Choo Mui; Yu, Guoxing; Liao, Xian – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
This study investigates the relationship between three discourse synthesis skills (i.e., quotation, summarization, and connection) and students' overall integrated writing performance in Chinese, students' first language, and English, their second language. Hierarchical regression analyses revealed that 63.6% of the variance in students' overall…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Discourse Analysis
Differences between the Relationship of L1 Learners' Performance in Integrated Writing with Both Independent Listening and Independent Reading Cognitive Skills
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Cheong, Choo Mui; Zhu, Xinhua; Liao, Xian – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
In recent decades, integrated language competence has been highlighted in the language curricula taught in schools and institutions, and the relationship between test-takers' performance on integrated tasks and comprehension sources has been much studied. The current study employed the frameworks of reading and listening comprehension processes to…
Descriptors: Listening Skills, Reading Skills, Independent Reading, Secondary School Students