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Villar Revello, Erika María; Fuerte Tapia, Alejandra; Vertiz Osores, Joaquín; Gálvez Suárez, Eric; Arévalo Tuesta, José Antonio – Journal of Educational Psychology - Propositos y Representaciones, 2018
The objective of this research work is to analyze the influence of collaborative activities on the learning of discourse markers in the students of the Language Comprehension and Production from a private university in Lima. It is an applied research with a quasi-experimental design, composed of experimental and control. For the collection of…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, College Students, Discourse Analysis, Workshops
Pangaribuan, Tagor; Manik, Sondang – English Language Teaching, 2018
This research held at SMA HKBP 1 Tarutung North Sumatra on the research result of test XI[superscript 2] and XI[superscript 2] students, after they got treatment in teaching writing in recount text by using buzz group and clustering technique. The average score (X) was 67.7 and the total score buzz group the average score (X) was 77.2 and in…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Intermode Differences, Writing Processes
Siu, Fiona Kwai-peng – Online Submission, 2018
Different approaches have been used to teach EFL students summary writing, including a genre-based approach (Chen & Su, 2012), implementing key words and question generation (Chou, 2012), and automatic scaffolding and concept mapping (Yang, 2015). This study aims to explore the effectiveness of another approach--one that might be more…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Generalization
Carter-Veale, Wendy Y.; Tull, Renetta G.; Rutledge, Janet C.; Joseph, Lenisa N. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2016
The problem of PhD attrition, especially at the dissertation-writing stage, is not solely related to mentoring, departments, or disciplines; it is a problem that affects the entire institution. As such, solutions require collaborative efforts for student success. Building on Yeatman's master--apprentice model, which assumes mastering disciplinary…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Graduate Students, Coping, Student Experience
Shafiee, Sajad; Koosha, Mansour; Afghar, Akbar – English Language Teaching, 2015
This study sought to explore the effect of teaching prewriting strategies through different methods of input delivery (i.e. conventional, web-based, and hybrid) on EFL learners' writing quantity. In its quasi-experimental study, the researchers recruited 98 available sophomores, and assigned them to three experimental groups (conventional,…
Descriptors: Prewriting, Writing Strategies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Jayaron, Jose; Abidin, Mohammed Jafre Zainol – English Language Teaching, 2016
Use of educational technologies has become increasingly significant in the field of English Language Learning. Both the teachers and students are dependent on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and its different tools for teaching and learning in particular, and socialization in general. The scope and significance of the study on the…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Wickramaarachchi, Thilina Indrajie – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
The study examines the interaction between reading and writing processes in general and more specifically the impact of pre-reading tasks incorporating writing tasks (referred to as "prw tasks") in helping the development of inferential reading comprehension. A sample of 70 first year ESL students of the University of Kelaniya were…
Descriptors: Writing Exercises, Writing Processes, Reading Comprehension, Experimental Groups
Yang, Yu-Fen – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2016
Recognizing that graduate students seldom have the opportunity to participate collaboratively, either in providing or receiving feedback to improve their academic writing skills, this study reports on the design of a computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) system used to investigate how graduate students transform and construct their…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Writing Processes, Graduate Students
Gulley, Beth – Journal of Developmental Education, 2012
Many writing teachers provide feedback to their students through writing conferences; however, the existing literature indicates teachers may unintentionally harm their weaker students by using this strategy. To better understand the effect of the writing conference on developmental writing students, the researcher created a mixed design ANCOVA to…
Descriptors: Special Needs Students, Feedback (Response), Writing Instruction, Statistical Significance
Ong, Justina; Zhang, Lawrence Jun – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2013
Little is known about the effects of various planning and revising conditions on composition quality in experimental or TESOL education research. This study examined the effects of planning conditions (planning, prolonged planning, free writing, and control), subplanning conditions (task-given, task-content-given, and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Cognitive Processes, Writing (Composition)
Zhang, Cui – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Recently, the number of English as a second language (ESL) students who study in the United States has rapidly increased. This increase poses serious challenges for the U.S. universities in which the students are enrolled as well as for the students themselves. One of the challenges the students face is a lack of training in one type of writing…
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, English for Academic Purposes
Arslan, Recep S.; Sahin-Kizil, Aysel – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2010
Blog use may offer instructors a helpful tool for teaching writing at the tertiary level in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) classrooms. This article reports on a quasi-experimental study regarding the effect of blog-centered writing instruction on students' writing performance. Fifty intermediate English students at a Turkish…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Web Sites, Electronic Publishing
Willoughby, Teena; Anderson, S. Alexandria; Wood, Eileen; Mueller, Julie; Ross, Craig – Computers & Education, 2009
The purpose of the study was to examine the role of domain knowledge when retrieving and using information from the Internet as a resource for essay tasks, as well as to investigate the quality of Internet searches and its relation to essay performance. In two experiments, 100 undergraduates searched the Internet for 30 min and completed two…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Correlation, Control Groups, Essays
Nicholas, Karen R.; Menchetti, Bruce M.; Nettles, Stephen M. – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2005
This exploratory study investigated the effects of a structured writing strategy on the quality of expository compositions produced by 36 African-American college undergraduates with learning disabilities. The strategy was structured to assist students in developing a topic sentence and main ideas into body paragraphs, and in using transition…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Writing Strategies, Learning Disabilities, African American Students