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Tsuji, Kayo – English Language Teaching, 2021
The first language (L1) use is vital to developing the quality of second-language (L2) writings. Establishing a clear argument with the logical flow in L2 can be a daunting task for learners with low L2 proficiency. To determine if L1 use is positively related to students' L2 texts, the researcher conducted a comparative study with 77 Japanese L2…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Comparative Analysis, Writing Instruction
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Diaz Larenas, Claudio; Ramos Leiva, Lucía; Ortiz Navarrete, Mabel – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2017
This paper reports on a study about the rhetoric, metacognitive, and cognitive strategies pre-service teachers use before and after a process-based writing intervention when completing an argumentative essay. The data were collected through two think-aloud protocols while 21 Chilean English as a foreign language pre-service teachers completed an…
Descriptors: Rhetorical Invention, Metacognition, Cognitive Processes, Essays
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Liaghat, Farahnaz; Biria, Reza – International Journal of Instruction, 2018
This study aimed at exploring the impact of mentor text modelling on Iranian English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners' accuracy and fluency in writing tasks with different cognitive complexity in comparison with two conventional approaches to teaching writing; namely, process-based and product-based approaches. To this end, 60 Iranian EFL…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Teaching Methods, Writing Instruction
O'Brien-Moran, Michael; Soiferman, L. Karen – Online Submission, 2010
This discussion paper investigates the pedagogical implications of the cognitive process writing model proposed by Flower and Hayes (1981). The research of Flower and Hayes (1981) provides insights into how writers go about planning, generating, and revising during the process of writing. Flower and Hayes (1981) believed that this shift in focus,…
Descriptors: Process Approach (Writing), Writing Processes, Metacognition, Decision Making
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Wellington, Jerry – Teaching in Higher Education, 2010
This paper starts from the premise that there is more to writing than simply skill, knowledge and ability, i.e. cognition. This is an important part of writing but is only one aspect of it. The paper discusses the idea of the affective domain and goes on to focus largely on the positive and negative attitudes and feelings of graduate students…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Student Attitudes, Negative Attitudes, Writing Attitudes
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Mcginnis, Debra; Saunders, Nikola N.; Burns, Ryan J. – Reading Psychology, 2007
To examine metacomprehension during comprehension, undergraduates (n = 133) were asked to provide descriptions of how they determined the meaning of four rare words presented in short passages. Content analysis of these written descriptions revealed task-specific metacomprehension reflecting lexical, textbase, and situation model processes.…
Descriptors: Multivariate Analysis, Content Analysis, Individual Differences, Undergraduate Students