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Tlatso Nkhobo; Chaka Chaka – International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, 2023
This article reports on a comparative analysis of two sets of essays, student-discursive essays (SDEs) and ChatGPT-generated discursive essays (ChatGPT-GDEs) on the same essay topic using Coh-Metrix. It focused on three Coh-Metrix indices, lexical density, syntactic complexity, and referential cohesion as the basis for the comparative analysis.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Persuasive Discourse, Writing (Composition)
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L. L. Aull – Across the Disciplines, 2024
This article traces the history of college writing and suggests a different way ahead. To show why we need this approach, the article historicizes the start of postsecondary English as a paradoxical one, committed to egalitarian ideals while privileging narrow and exclusive English usage. To offer an alternative approach, the article synthesizes…
Descriptors: College Students, Writing (Composition), Postsecondary Education, English
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Genevieve M. Henricks; Michelle Perry; Suma Bhat – Computer-Based Learning in Context, 2021
Discussion forums are important components of online courses because of the collaboration and community they foster, and the language used within the discussion forums may be influential in this development. In particular, studying the gendered language patterns of discussion forums can help gain insight into students' state of mind and propensity…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Online Courses, Science Instruction, Group Discussion
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Almogheerah, Ameera – Arab World English Journal, 2020
The study aimed at investigating the effect of using WhatsApp-based learning activities on developing idiom knowledge among Saudi university English as a foreign language (EFL)students compared to conventional method. It also examined the students' perceptions towards the application of WhatsApp in idiom-learning. The rationale for conducting this…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Foreign Countries, Females, English (Second Language)
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Skalicky, Stephen; Crossley, Scott A.; McNamara, Danielle S.; Muldner, Kasia – Creativity Research Journal, 2017
Creativity is commonly assessed using divergent thinking tasks, which measure the fluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration of participant output on a variety of different tasks. This study assesses the degree to which creativity can be identified based on linguistic features of participants' language while completing collaborative…
Descriptors: Creativity, Creative Thinking, Problem Solving, Linguistics
Allora, Adriano; Corino, Elisa; Onesti, Cristina – European Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL), 2012
The present paper shows the first results of a linguistic project devoted to the construction of web learning tools for reinforcing sensitivity to diaphasic varieties and for learning style variation in L2/LS learning. (Contains 1 figure and 1 footnote.) [Support for this research was provided by the VALERE Project.]
Descriptors: Language Variation, Language Usage, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Maness, Jack M. – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2008
Thirty-one chat reference conversations were linguistically analyzed, compared to twenty-three instant messaging (IM) conversations held between students, and further correlated to students' satisfaction with the reference interaction. Conversations between librarians and students in chat reference are more formal than those solely involving…
Descriptors: Reference Services, Discourse Analysis, Computer Mediated Communication, College Students
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Joung, Sunyoung; Keller, John M. – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2004
The terms "cooperative" and "collaborative" are sometimes used interchangeably in reference to group learning activities in classrooms and in online settings. However, they can be viewed as differing in terms of characteristics such as pre-structure, task structure, and content structure (Strijbos & Martens, 2001; Panitz,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Interaction, Cooperative Learning, Comparative Analysis
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Guiller, J.; Durndell, A. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2006
This paper discusses findings from an extensive project examining gender, language and computer-mediated communication (CMC) in the context of undergraduate psychology courses. The contributions of 197 introductory psychology students (148 females, 49 males) participating in asynchronous CMC as part of their course were collated and coded for…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Interaction, Computer Mediated Communication, Psychology