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Direct linkHamdollah Ravand; Farshad Effatpanah; Wenchao Ma; Jimmy de la Torre; Purya Baghaei; Olga Kunina-Habenicht – Applied Measurement in Education, 2024
The purpose of this study was to explore the nature of interactions among second/foreign language (L2) writing subskills. Two types of relationships were investigated: subskill-item and subskill-subskill relationships. To achieve the first purpose, using writing data obtained from the writing essays of 500 English as a foreign language (EFL)…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Writing Instruction, Writing Skills, Writing Tests
Download full textPavavijarn, Sudthida – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2022
Textual coherence is an important part of writing. This study examines whether textual coherence affects the quality of argumentative essays by evaluating papers written by 22 EFL university students. Firstly, the argumentative essays were evaluated by two raters using an AP English Argumentative Writing rubric available on Turnitin, an online…
Descriptors: Writing Improvement, Writing Achievement, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Thomas, Anuja M.; McCarthy, Philip M.; Ahmed, Khawlah; Kaddoura, Noor W.; Duran, Nicholas D. – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2022
Paragraph structure has been identified as consisting of three distinct parts, which are the topic sentence, supporting sentences, and a paragraph ending sentence. Although topic sentences have been widely researched, similar consideration for paragraph endings has been less forthcoming. This discrepancy may be problematic as research suggests…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Paragraph Composition, Text Structure, Models
de Brusa, Maria Fernanda Poveda; Harutyunyan, Liliya – English Language Teaching, 2019
Higher education focuses on promoting the training of autonomous, critical professionals who adapt to the ever-more demanding labor market. To achieve these objectives, it is necessary to rethink teaching practices in order to allow the student to be the main actor and modeler for their learning process. Previous studies based on Vygotsky's…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Writing Evaluation, Essays, Academic Language
Anchalee Chanyanuvat – rEFLections, 2017
This paper describes a classroom-based study designed to investigate the aspects of improvement in students' English language writing abilities from five Paragraph Writing Skill Labs, organized in 2015. The labs were specially designed to train students to produce a well-organized paragraph based on the framework of Oshima and Hogue (1988, 1991),…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Writing Improvement, Writing Instruction, Writing Evaluation
Baba, Kyoko; Nitta, Ryo – Language Learning, 2014
This study explored patterns in L2 writing development by focusing on one of the linguistic features of texts (fluency) from a complex dynamic systems perspective. It investigated whether two English-as-a-foreign-language university students would experience discontinuous change (phase transition) in their writing fluency through repetition of a…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Text Structure
Liu, Ming; Li, Yi; Xu, Weiwei; Liu, Li – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2017
Writing an essay is a very important skill for students to master, but a difficult task for them to overcome. It is particularly true for English as Second Language (ESL) students in China. It would be very useful if students could receive timely and effective feedback about their writing. Automatic essay feedback generation is a challenging task,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Babino, Alexandra, Ed.; Cossa, Nedra, Ed.; Araujo, Juan J., Ed.; Johnson, Robin D., Ed. – Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers, 2019
The theme for the 62nd annual conference of the Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers was Educating for a Just Society. Connie Briggs, previous Program Chair, reminded us that, "Education has always been the foundation of a democratic nation. It is important that our students understand the principles upon which our nation was…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Social Justice, Arabs, Culture
