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Perin, Dolores; Lauterbach, Mark; Raufman, Julia; Kalamkarian, Hoori Santikian – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2017
Summarization and persuasive writing are important in postsecondary education and often require the use of source text. However, students entering college with low literacy skills often find this type of writing difficult. The present study compared predictors of performance on text-based summarization and persuasive writing in a sample of…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Self Efficacy, Reading Comprehension, Persuasive Discourse
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Tuan, Vu Van – English Language Teaching, 2017
This study on level of communicative competence covering linguistic/grammatical and discourse has aimed at constructing a proposed English language program for 5 key universities in Vietnam. The descriptive method utilized was scientifically employed with comparative techniques and correlational analysis. The researcher treated the surveyed data…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), College Seniors, Program Proposals, Correlation