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Xiaopeng Zhang; Wenwen Li – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
This study modeled the effects of essay length and language features on the rated quality of second language (L2) expository and argumentative essays composed by Chinese university students. Latent variables were writing quality captured by essay scores, and lexical sophistication, syntactic complexity and cohesion, each of which was measured by…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Essays, Language Usage, College Students
Dobbs, Christina L.; Caselli, Naomi K.; Hartzell, Ethan; Flanagan, Coral; Yan, Yan – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2022
Language borrowing from sources is a phenomenon used by developing writers as they are learning academic language, though there is much to be learned about how younger students borrow from sources. This study explores student writing, from a sample of 166 diverse middle graders, across topics to determine patterns in borrowing from instructional…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Linguistic Borrowing, Academic Language, Writing Processes
Wood, Carla; Schatschneider, Christopher – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2022
The aims of the current project were to: (1) describe average change in the use of academic words across the school year in writing and (2) examine potential predictors of growth in academic word use in response to morphology-focused supplemental instruction. Investigators utilized written expository responses of 824 students in 5th grade before…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Academic Language, Language Usage, Second Language Learning
Yoon, Hyung-Jo – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
This study examined how students of English as a foreign language (EFL) with different first language (L1) backgrounds use interactional metadiscourse markers in argumentative writing. Specifically, to explore unique patterns of metadiscourse features that reflect context and development, the essays written by Chinese, Japanese, and Korean EFL…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Writing Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
August, Diane; Artzi, Lauren; Barr, Christopher; Francis, David – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
This study used a within-subjects design to explore two instructional conditions for developing vocabulary in second-grade Spanish-speaking English learners (ELs)--extended instruction and embedded instruction implemented during shared interactive reading. Words assigned to the extended condition were directly taught using a multifaceted approach…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, English Language Learners, Grade 2, Elementary School Students
Matuchniak, Tina; Olson, Carol Booth; Scarcella, Robin – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2014
This study reports on the effects of the Pathway Project, a professional development intervention aimed at supporting the academic language development of English Learners (ELs). Using a subset of data collected during a multi-site cluster randomized controlled trial involving nine middle and six high schools in an urban, low-income school…
Descriptors: Intervention, Hispanic Americans, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning