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Zhanna Hunter; Lisa Mangion; Louise Noell – English Australia Journal, 2024
The multiliteracies framework provides a pedagogical approach relevant to English language direct entry pathway (DEP) programs at university, recognising that education and communication in a multicultural, multimodal, and globalised world involves more than language literacy. Integrated assessments, in which some combination of listening,…
Descriptors: Multiple Literacies, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Huang, Ophelia H. L. – International Education Studies, 2022
This study employed a blended learning approach to investigate 98 medical university EFL students' perceptions and analyzed the learning trajectory of their LMOOCs in formal education. Meanwhile, Byram's (1997) intercultural communicative competence (ICC) model was adopted to explore if students' English proficiency and ICC abilities could enhance…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, MOOCs
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Awada, Ghada; Burston, Jack – Teaching English with Technology, 2020
This study set to investigate the critical importance of integrating Student Team Achievement Division (STAD) and "WebQuest," STADIBTM for short, on developing the advanced-level argumentative writing skills of L2 English university students. The study employed a pre-posttest comparison of the experimental group (N=54) versus the control…
Descriptors: Web Based Instruction, College Students, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Zhao, Cecilia Guanfang – Language Testing, 2013
Although a key concept in various writing textbooks, learning standards, and writing rubrics, voice remains a construct that is only loosely defined in the literature and impressionistically assessed in practice. Few attempts have been made to formally investigate whether and how the strength of an author's voice in written texts can be reliably…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Protocol Analysis
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Marulanda Ángel, Nora Lucía; Martínez García, Juan Manuel – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2017
The demands of the academic field and the constraints students have while learning how to write appropriately call for better approaches to teach academic writing. This research study examines the effect of a multifaceted academic writing module on pre-service teachers' composition skills in an English teacher preparation program at a medium sized…
Descriptors: Writing Improvement, Preservice Teachers, Academic Discourse, Syntax
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Yang, Hui-Chun – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2014
This study explores the construct of a summarization test task by means of single-group and multigroup structural equation modeling (SEM). It examines the interrelationships between strategy use and performance, drawing on data from 298 Taiwanese undergraduates' summary essays and their self-reported strategy use. Single-group SEM analyses…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Structural Equation Models, Writing Skills, Language Tests