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Download full textYoshimasa Ogawa – Journal of Response to Writing, 2025
This study explored a way to help Japanese university students write longer essays while maintaining grammatical accuracy. Participants were three groups of students enrolled in a one-year EFL course in different academic years (N = 111), and the number of words they wrote in 30 minutes and the number of errors made per 100 words were compared. To…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Accuracy, Writing Evaluation
Direct linkQiuyun Lu; Alice Deignan – SAGE Open, 2024
Metaphors are known to present both opportunities and challenges for second language learners, but relatively little is known about learners' awareness of them. To investigate this, we analyzed 72 argumentative essays written in English by a group of 37 intermediate Chinese university students of English. We identified metaphors using an…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Figurative Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Raymond Yasuda – Language Teaching Research, 2025
This study investigated the effect of consistent freewriting practice on written fluency development. Thirty-nine first-year university students completed 70 10-minute freewriting activities over the course of an academic semester. Written fluency, measured as words produced per minute (wpm), increased from a mean of 19.5 wpm to 30.1 wpm over a…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, Essays, English (Second Language), Language Tests
Carola Strobl; Iryna Menke-Bazhutkina; Niklas Abel; Marije Michel – Technology in Language Teaching & Learning, 2024
Since its release, ChatGPT has raised concerns in many teaching contexts given its threat to reliably evaluating learners' knowledge and skills. Within task-based pedagogy, however, this technology opens new avenues for second language (L2) teaching when adopting the technology as a writing buddy. Our study explores how ChatGPT as a model impacts…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Technology Uses in Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Writing Instruction
Ning Fan; Yingying Ma – SAGE Open, 2024
Researchers have been investigating the effects of different planning conditions on learners' second language (L2) writing performance. However, whether such effects differ regarding specific planning conditions and task complexity has remained underexplored. This study examined the effects of pre-task planning (PTP) versus unpressured online…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Syntax
Mohammed Ali Mohsen – Language Teaching Research, 2024
Writing in a language different from one's mother tongue is a daunting task. The same challenge may apply to languages that have diglossic features whose spoken form differs from the written form. This article investigates Arab students' writing behaviors (fluency, pauses, and revision) in response to an argumentative composition in their L1…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Native Language, Arabic, Language Fluency
