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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
Timothy M. Foran – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2025
This study aims to understand how bilingual college students constructed literacy spaces across their lives rather than an in-school/out-of-school dichotomy. Drawing on Lefebvre's (1991) spatial triad as a lens to examine the participants' spatial literacy practices, the findings show that some participants repurposed planned spaces into literacy…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Spatial Ability, Literacy, Second Language Learning
Haerim Hwang – Written Communication, 2025
The use of subordination enables language users to achieve syntactic efficiency by allowing them to connect ideas in temporal/logical relation. Although the importance of subordination has been recognized in previous research on second language (L2) writing, it has been typically assessed with global indices that measure overall ratio of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Writing (Composition), Form Classes (Languages), Syntax
Kutay Uzun – TESOL Journal, 2024
The genre-based approach (GBA) to teaching second language (L2) writing follows the stages of establishing context, modelling, analysis, joint construction, and independent construction. The passage from joint construction to independent construction in the GBA requires scaffolding. Thus, studies on GBA suggest teacher support in independent…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Writing Instruction, Writing (Composition), Undergraduate Students
Višnja Pavicic Takac – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
Inspired by Rebecca Oxford's thought-provoking reflections on language learning strategies, and particularly her orchestra metaphor on how the strategies work together, I conducted a study that seeks to understand how non-native writers employ, configure, sequence and combine individual writing strategies when creating a text in the target…
Descriptors: Writing Strategies, Collaborative Writing, Persuasive Discourse, Essays
Gui Wang; Hui Wang; Li Wang – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2025
This study investigates the developmental trajectory of progressive construction among Chinese and Japanese EFL learners through a usage-based approach. A total of 600 written essays, produced by EFL learners from China and Japan with proficiency levels ranging from elementary to upper-intermediate, were analyzed. The findings reveal that advanced…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Li Bai; Qiuxian Chen – TESL-EJ, 2024
The past few decades have foregrounded cooperative learning and its pedagogical implications for students' academic, psychological, and social gains, particularly, in the Western context. These gains, nonetheless, were sometimes questioned and doubted in the Confucian Heritage Culture (CHC) countries such as China. This study adopts Norton's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Collaborative Writing, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Chen, Binbin; Bao, Lina; Zhang, Rui; Zhang, Jingyu; Liu, Feng; Wang, Shuai; Li, Mingjiang – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2024
Language learning has increasingly benefited from Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) technologies, especially with Artificial Intelligence involved in recent years. CALL in writing learning acknowledged as the core of language learning is being realized by technologies like Automated Writing Evaluation (AWE), and Automated Essay Scoring…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Writing Instruction
Ju Zhan; Qiyu Sun; Lawrence Jun Zhang – Language Teaching Research, 2024
The present study investigated the potential of writing in English as a foreign language (EFL) for language learning by manipulating cognitive task complexity based on related models and hypotheses. English essays written by 59 Chinese postgraduate EFL students from different subject areas were analysed with reference to writing complexity,…
Descriptors: Syntax, Writing (Composition), Difficulty Level, Vocabulary
Faeze Safari; Alireza Ahmadi – Language Learning Journal, 2025
Integrated writing tasks, which require students to incorporate information from multiple sources into their writing, are gaining attention in language assessment and writing instruction due to their alignment with the expectations of academic and professional writing. Understanding what aspects of integrated tasks are perceived as challenging by…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing Assignments, Second Language Learning, Information Sources
Fatemeh Faryabi; Mohammad Rahimi; Kristin J. Davin – TESOL Journal, 2024
The present study adopted a praxis orientation to second language (L2) research and pedagogy to explore the professional development needs of three English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers after their first attempt at implementing dynamic assessment (DA) of essay writing. To date, few studies have examined how teachers learn to implement DA,…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Jantra Prompan; Chatraporn Piamsai – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2024
Conceptualized in formative assessment and sociocognitive theory, peer feedback and self-regulated learning (SRL) instruction were used in this mixed-method study to investigate their effects on Thai EFL university students' essay writing ability and their self-regulation. During the 12-week online instruction period, 35 third-year students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Feedback (Response), Peer Evaluation, English (Second Language)
Yves Bestgen – Applied Linguistics, 2024
Measuring lexical diversity in texts that have different lengths is problematic because length has a significant effect on the number of types a text contains, thus hampering any comparison. Treffers-Daller et al. (2018) recommended a simple solution, namely counting the number of types in a section of a given length that was extracted from the…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Second Language Learning, Essays, Writing Evaluation
Xinming Chen; Ziqian Zhou; Malila Prado – International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2025
This study explores the efficacy of ChatGPT-3.5, an AI chatbot, used as an Automatic Essay Scoring (AES) system and feedback provider for IELTS essay preparation. It investigates the alignment between scores given by ChatGPT-3.5 and those assigned by official IELTS examiners to establish its reliability as an AES. It also identifies the strategies…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Technology Uses in Education, Automation
Xiaosheng Zhou; Ying Soon Goh – International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning, 2025
This study introduces a mobile-assisted Seamless Chinese Vocabulary Learning (SCVL) framework and examines its efficacy through the implementation of a "sentence-paragraph-essay" artifact-making writing process designed to enhance vocabulary growth among tertiary-level students. Employing a design-based research methodology, the study…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Telecommunications