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Direct linkLópez, Paula; Torrance, Mark; Rijlaarsdam, Gert; Fidalgo, Raquel – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
This study aimed to establish (a) whether teaching students revision skills provides benefit over and above teaching strategies for setting explicit goals for the communicative effect of their text, and (b) whether teaching students to adopt specific revision strategies provides benefits over revision instruction that focusses on increasing…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Revision (Written Composition), Elementary School Students, Instructional Effectiveness
Sotomayor, Carmen; Coloma, Carmen Julia; Chaf, Gabriela; Osorio, Gabriela; Jéldrez, Elvira – Research Papers in Education, 2019
The purpose of this paper is to comprehend the importance that grammar has in the teaching of writing in the Hispanic American countries and Spain. To achieve this, the discussion that has taken place in these countries about the importance of sentence grammar in the teaching of writing is analysed. Three proposals for the contextualised teaching…
Descriptors: Grammar, Writing Instruction, Sentences, Writing Processes
Torrance, Mark; Fidalgo, Raquel; Robledo, Patricia – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2015
Background: Strategy-focused writing instruction trains students both to set explicit product goals and to adopt specific procedural strategies, particularly for planning text. A number of studies have demonstrated that strategy-focused writing instruction is effective in developing writing performance. Aim: This study aimed to determine whether…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction, Writing Strategies
Pifarre, Manoli; Fisher, Ros – Language and Education, 2011
Understanding how best to support immature writers in the development of their understanding of the writing process is an important concern for researchers and teachers. Social technologies have become key features of leisure and work place writing, yet knowledge about how to design educational settings that take full advantage of the affordances…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Writing Instruction, Computer Software, Revision (Written Composition)
Download full textSantos, Maria; Lopez-Serrano, Sonia; Manchon, Rosa M. – International Journal of English Studies, 2010
Framed in a cognitively-oriented strand of research on corrective feedback (CF) in SLA, the controlled three-stage (composition/comparison-noticing/revision) study reported in this paper investigated the effects of two forms of direct CF (error correction and reformulation) on noticing and uptake, as evidenced in the written output produced by a…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Writing (Composition), Error Correction, English (Second Language)
Torrance, Mark; Fidalgo, Raquel; Garcia, Jesus-Nicasio – Learning and Instruction, 2007
Seventy-one normally functioning Spanish sixth-grade students participated in classroom-based training in cognitive strategies for preplanning and substantive revision of expository text. Short essays completed by these students pre-intervention, post-intervention, and after a 12 week delay were compared with those of an ordinary-curriculum…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Grade 6
