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Icy Lee – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2024
The past few decades have witnessed a remarkable surge of research interest in written corrective feedback (WCF). Given its pivotal role in the writing classroom, WCF has remained one of the most vibrant and dynamic areas for scholarly investigations. The aim of this article is to chart future directions for WCF research. To do this, it first…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction, Feedback (Response), Error Correction
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Alyssa R. McElroy; Jessica E. Van Stratton; Paige Sherlund-Pelfrey – Education and Treatment of Children, 2024
A primary goal of educational settings in the United States is to produce competent writers. However, most students do not receive adequate instruction and practice beyond grade three. Furthermore, only 29% of high school graduates without disabilities, and 5% with disabilities exit with proficient writing skills (U.S. Department of Education,…
Descriptors: Bibliometrics, Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Writing Skills
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Stephanie M. Moody; Bethany Rice – Action in Teacher Education, 2025
Metaphors situated within critical reflections provide powerful insight into how preservice teachers (PSTs) understand their experiences and the world around them, particularly in areas like writing which is consistently understudied in teacher education programs. The present qualitative study uses metaphor data from Fall 2021, Spring 2022, and…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction, Writing Research, Conferences (Gatherings)
Mustapha Chmarkh – Online Submission, 2025
Most second language writing studies have approached the L2 Writing phenomenon through the cognitive theoretical lens that situates writing as a mental activity that resembles psychological and mathematical problem-solving (Cumming, 2016, p. 69). "While research on second language writing has expanded exponentially in recent years, it has for…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Models, Writing Instruction
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Dan Martin – Across the Disciplines, 2024
The invention of composition as a required course in the United States, a booming textbook industry, and an increased focus on nationalism perpetuated the standardizing of English language practices and curriculums in secondary and postsecondary schools in the late 19th century and early 20th century. Composition textbooks circulated both standard…
Descriptors: Nationalism, Writing (Composition), Textbooks, Standard Spoken Usage
Brigid Ovitt – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Because writing is complex and draws upon so many psychological and cognitive processes, learning to write is even more challenging for students with disabilities than it is for typically developing students. Nonetheless, writing research in the field of education and special education lags behind that of many other academic subjects. The body of…
Descriptors: Journal Writing, Dialogs (Language), Writing Research, Writing Achievement
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Hoang Minh Nguyen; Tuan Anh Chu – rEFLections, 2024
Written corrective feedback (WCF) has been widely deployed in teaching second language (L2) writing skills, partly because it is generally perceived to promote and consolidate learning. Whilst a burgeoning body of literature affirms its virtues pertaining to fostering L2 learners' writing performance, which method of correction could yield the…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Feedback (Response), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Rachel Schechter; Rumeysa Yucel – Online Submission, 2024
The insufficient focus on developing writing instruction in education is a significant problem. Despite the crucial link between writing and reading skills and their impact on academic and life success, there is a notable lack of emphasis on writing in schools. Writing A-Z is a digital-first program that helps teachers establish a writing…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Writing Processes, Writing Assignments
Katie Silvester – National Council of Teachers of English, 2024
This book demonstrates how researchers and practitioners in writing and rhetoric studies can engage in story work across differences in culture, language, locations, and experience. Based on an ethnographic study in Nepal spanning a decade, Katie Silvester speaks with and to the stories of Bhutanese women in diaspora learning English later in life…
Descriptors: Females, Literacy Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Matt Kessler – Multilingual Matters, 2024
This book provides a comprehensive overview of research in applied linguistics involving the intersection of digital multimodal composing (DMC) and second language (L2) writing. It presents a theoretically and methodologically diverse introduction to key theories and scholarship supporting DMC's use, along with practical pedagogical tips and tools…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Multiple Literacies, Applied Linguistics
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Qianqian Zhang-Wu; Cherice Escobar Jones – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
In this exploratory study, we adopt corpus linguistic methods to quantify, contextualize and investigate race in translingual scholarship in US writing and rhetoric studies over the past decade. Results indicate that while race is mentioned minimally in the corpus, in instances where it is mentioned many scholars pay attention to…
Descriptors: Race, Computational Linguistics, Writing Research, Rhetoric