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Kimberly Wolbers; Hannah Dostal; Leala Holcomb; Kelsey Spurgin – Grantee Submission, 2024
Writing is an essential element of literacy development, and language plays a central role in the composing process, including developing, organizing, and refining ideas. Language and writing are interconnected, making it paramount for educators to attend to the development of deaf students' language skills. In this quasi-experimental study, we…
Descriptors: Deafness, Students with Disabilities, Expressive Language, Language Skills
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Ilhan Polat; Hakan Dedeoglu – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2024
Choosing a writing topic poses a particularly serious challenge for young learners. Topic selection affects all other steps of the writing process. Therefore, the writing topic should be related to a subject that the student knows about, is interested in, and can produce content on. Basing writing on students' immediate environment and experiences…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Writing Skills, Narration, Writing Assignments
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Mark Feng Teng; Danyang Zhang – Language Teaching Research, 2024
This study examined the effects of involvement load-based tasks on vocabulary learning in a foreign language, as well as the extent to which task effects are predicted by learners' metacognition (i.e. metacognitive knowledge and regulation). A total of 120 Chinese university students of English as a foreign language (EFL) were randomly assigned to…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Task Analysis, Teaching Methods
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Kimberly A. Wolbers; Hannah M. Dostal; Leala Holcomb; Kelsey Spurgin – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2024
Writing is an essential element of literacy development, and language plays a central role in the composing process, including developing, organizing, and refining ideas. Language and writing are interconnected, making it paramount for educators to attend to the development of deaf students' language skills. In this quasi-experimental study, we…
Descriptors: Deafness, Expressive Language, Writing Processes, Language Skills
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Vasilopoulos, Eugenia – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2021
This study explores how Deleuzian concepts of assemblage, affect, and rhizome can inform, and transform, our understanding of how technology shapes second language academic writing. More specifically, it focuses on the practice of L2 academic writing as novice writers compose a source-based research paper in an English for Academic Purposes…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing Instruction, Research Papers (Students)
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Troia, Gary A.; Shen, Mei; Brandon, Diana L. – Written Communication, 2019
This study examined multiple measures of written expression as predictors of narrative writing performance for 362 students in grades 4 through 6. Each student wrote a fictional narrative in response to a title prompt that was evaluated using a levels of language framework targeting productivity, accuracy, and complexity at the word, sentence, and…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Intermediate Grades, Writing (Composition), Expressive Language
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Colombos, Alexandros – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2020
This is a case study of a Greek-American young adult and a New York City non-profit Day Habilitation consumer who was diagnosed with various developmental disabilities. The methods used for therapeutic and educational interventions included Gustav Heckman's version of Socratic Method called Socratic Enquiry used in individual sessions (one-on-one)…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Intervention, Teaching Methods, Questioning Techniques
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Truman, Sarah E. – Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 2016
In this article the author combines Chinese literary theory and new materialism with her ongoing research into creative writing. In the opening section, the author discusses how language and writing can be approached using new materialist theories. She then enters into a creative non-fiction "research-creation" piece that explores how…
Descriptors: Expressive Language, Creative Writing, Educational Theories, Nonfiction
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Wagner, Christopher J. – Journal of Education, 2016
Although young dual language students (DLLs) learn to write and use language expressively in ways that differ from monolingual English speakers, these differences are rarely addressed in curricula and instruction. In particular, despite a recent shift in attention to how identities shape literacy practices and motivations, common frameworks for…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing Skills, Expressive Language, Bilingualism
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Dinnes, Carly; Hux, Karen – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2018
Written expression is a high-level language process susceptible to impairment given mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI); however, minimal research exists about assessing or treating this aspect of language performance. This study's purpose was to determine the effect of a multicomponent intervention on the written expression of an undergraduate…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Writing Instruction, Intervention, Head Injuries
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Hines, Claudia L.; Brown, Nina W.; Myran, Steve – Education, 2016
Ninety-three (n = 93) students in grades 9-12 who failed the Virginia Standards of Learning mathematics test were placed into experimental and control groups. Pre and posttest measures for general and mathematics anxiety, and physical symptoms of stress were administered. The Expressive Writing intervention was used with both groups where the…
Descriptors: High School Students, Control Groups, Experimental Groups, Mathematics Instruction
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Banyard, Victoria; Hamby, Sherry; Grych, John – School Social Work Journal, 2016
Expressive writing or values narratives are a promising addition to school social workers' toolkits of intervention strategies for distressed youth and prevention work to reduce mental health problems in schools. Narrative can promote resilience among students who have been exposed to adversity and promote healthy development among those who have…
Descriptors: Well Being, Statistical Analysis, Metacognition, Self Control
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Mastropieri, Margo A.; Scruggs, Thomas E.; Irby Cerar, Nancy; Guckert, Mary; Thompson, Catherine; Bronaugh, Danette Allen; Jakulski, Jill; Abdulalim, Latif; Mills, Sara; Evmenova, Anya; Regan, Kelley; Cuenca-Carlino, Yojanna – Exceptionality, 2015
Expressive writing is important for school and life success, but remains challenging for many students with emotional and behavioral disabilities. Emerging evidence reveals promise for teaching students with learning and behavioral issues to improve written expression with self-regulated strategy development instruction. In that research, students…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Writing Instruction, Emotional Disturbances, Behavior Disorders
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Sun, Xiaohui – English Language Teaching, 2014
This paper investigated a number of common ungrammatical patterns that were found in Chinese EFL leaners' free writings, in order to find useful pedagogical implications for English grammar teaching in EFL setting, especially in China. The corpus of writing data is examined by the author together with a native English teacher. Our findings suggest…
Descriptors: Grammar, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, English (Second Language)
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Faraj, Avan Kamal Aziz – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
Vocabulary acquisition has been a main concern of EFL English teachers and learners. There have been tons of research to examine the student's level of receptive vocabulary and productive vocabulary, but no research has conducted on how turning receptive vocabulary into productive vocabulary. This study has reported the impact of the teaching…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Receptive Language, Expressive Language, English (Second Language)
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