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Svenlin, Mindy; Sørhaug, Jon Olav – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2023
This article examines collaborative writing in schools by systematically reviewing peer-reviewed and empirical articles published in English in scientific journals between 1986 and 2020. Drawing on scoping review methodology and using the typology of collaborative writing, 107 studies on collaborative writing in first-language school contexts…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Literature Reviews, Native Language Instruction, Elementary School Students
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Erixon, Per-Olof – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2018
This article concerns how teachers of Mother-Tongue Education (MTE) and pupils in Swedish secondary schools look upon and relate to the keyboard and screen and pen and paper, respectively, for writing in the context of MTE. The results showed that both teachers and pupils found that the computer on one side and the pen and paper on the other…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Swedish, Secondary School Students, Native Language Instruction
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Lincoln, Felicia; Ben Idris, Anisa – Journal of International Education Research, 2015
Research on the second writing process is not recent. Both first and second writing processes have been in the area of argument among scholars. It has been confirmed that both first and second writers nearly all practice similar physical activities pre-writing, during, and post writing stages; however, they still differ in the inner extra thinking…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Writing Instruction, Writing Skills, Process Approach (Writing)
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Elola, Idoia; Mikulski, Ariana M. – Hispania, 2016
Following a cognitively-oriented framework, this study builds upon the authors' previous work (Elola and Mikulski 2013; Mikulski and Elola 2011), which analyzed writing processes (planning time, execution time, revision time), fluency, and accuracy of Spanish heritage language (SHL) learners when composing in English and in Spanish. By analyzing…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Second Language Learning, Spanish, Native Speakers
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Askeland, Norunn; Aamotsbakken, Bente – Designs for Learning, 2013
In this article we discuss dilemmas and paradoxes in the use of learning resources and the need to list sources when writing, issues that are relevant for students as well as for teachers and authors of textbooks. We draw on experience from a Norwegian research project investigating students' writing in two subjects: physics and Norwegian in…
Descriptors: Physics, Norwegian, Information Sources, Writing Processes
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Yoke, Soo Kum; Rajendran, Cecilia Bai; Sain, Noridah; Kamaludin, Puteri Nur Hidayah; Nawi, Sofwah Md; Yusof, Suhaili – English Language Teaching, 2013
Conventional corrective feedback has been widely practiced but has been said to be tedious, stressful and time consuming. As such, the focus of this study is to investigate the use of an alternative method to giving corrective feedback namely, an online corrective feedback through e-mail. In order to examine if this innovative form of corrective…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Feedback (Response), Computer Mediated Communication, Electronic Mail
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Mikulski, Ariana; Elola, Idoia – Hispania, 2011
This study brings together previous research on writing processes and Spanish heritage language (SHL) learners to obtain a clearer picture of these learners' writing behaviors in English and Spanish. Following a cognitive-oriented framework, the study explores planning time, execution time, monitoring time, accuracy, and fluency. Twelve SHL…
Descriptors: Sentences, Writing Processes, Spanish, Heritage Education
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de Courcy, Michele; Smilevska, Jovanka – Babel, 2012
Research holds that, for bilingual children, a strong establishment in one language not only develops skills in that language, but also facilitates the development of a second language. The participants for this research were six nine-year-old children who were being educated in their first language, Macedonian, and also in English. This research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Strategies, Children, Bilingual Education
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Stairs, Arlene – English Quarterly, 1990
Studies Inuktitut and English writing proficiencies with elementary students. Finds native language fluency increases at the expense of polysynthetic complexity as students progress through school. Explores the search for linguistic and cultural bridges in Canadian native and minority situations as a more considered approach to vernacular…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Elementary Education, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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Hudelson, Sarah – Language Arts, 1987
Argues that the English Only Movement is misguided. Points out advantages of bilingual education and literacy in their native languages for students who begin their schooling with little or no knowledge of English. (SKC)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Elementary Education, English (Second Language)