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Lisa F. Gusewelle – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study examines the impact of the College, Career, and Community Writers Program (C3WP) on upper-elementary students' first draft writing quality, addressing the challenges teachers face in providing timely and effective feedback on extensive student writing, particularly in spelling, grammar, mechanics, and cohesion. The hypothesis posits…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Spelling, Grammar, Connected Discourse
Alyssa Vuogan – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Second language (L2) writing has been determined to be influenced by what is read, with language learners tending to borrow words and short phrases from input texts while writing (e.g., Wang & Wang, 2015). This phenomenon is referred to as lexical alignment. Only one empirical study has investigated the influence that the linguistic complexity…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Individual Differences
Mark Cisneros – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Studies in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) indicate that the use of discourse markers (DMs) in the academic writing of second language learners improves the overall quality of these texts by contributing to their cohesion and comprehensibility (Saif Modhish 2012; Jalilifar 2008; Intaraprawat & Steffensen 1995). However, despite the…
Descriptors: Heritage Education, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Native Language Instruction
Kenney, Susan – ProQuest LLC, 2013
A single subject study with multiple baselines across participants was used to explore the effect of giving access to picture-to-text software for writing to young students, with moderate autism, and documented difficulties with written language. For this intervention study, three participants, who had strengths in visual processing and who were…
Descriptors: Assistive Technology, Autism, Writing Instruction, Writing (Composition)
Ginger Gunter Collins – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Young adolescents should be able to write organized multi-paragraph compositions that develop a central idea and unfold in logical and sequential order, unified through the use of transitional words and phrases. In other words, the compositions should not just consist of a string of related sentences, but represent a dynamic text that has…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Paragraph Composition, Writing (Composition), Transformational Generative Grammar
Di Gennaro, Kristen K. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
A growing body of research suggests that the writing ability of international second language learners (IL2) and US-resident second language learners, also referred to as Generation 1.5 (G1.5), differs, despite a dearth of substantial empirical evidence supporting such claims. The present study provides much-needed empirical evidence concerning…
Descriptors: Writing Difficulties, Research Design, Methods Research, Grammar