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Anabela Malpique; Deborah Pino-Pasternak; Debora Valcan; Mustafa Asil – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2024
Two hundred ninety-eight primary teachers (88% female) from across all Australian states and territories reported on the frequency with which they implemented instructional adaptations for struggling writers in their classrooms. They also rated their preparation and self-efficacy for teaching writing. The majority of participating teachers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Writing (Composition), Writing Difficulties
de Smet, Milou J. R.; Brand-Gruwel, Saskia; Kirschner, Paul A. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2023
Background: Writing is an important and complex skill, which could be enhanced by teaching students effective writing strategies such as outlining. Electronic outlining - integrated feature in Microsoft® Word -- has been shown to enhance students' writing performance. However, little is known about the optimal didactic approach for electronic…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Writing Skills, Writing Instruction, Computer Uses in Education
Faryadi, Qais – Online Submission, 2018
Thesis writing is a skill that every PhD candidate must acquire to convey his or her research findings clearly. The main objective of this paper is to facilitate the thesis writing process so that PhD candidates understand what a PhD thesis is and can write their thesis correctly and scientifically. The methodology used in this research was…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Doctoral Dissertations, Writing (Composition), Writing Processes
Nurhayati, Dwi Astuti; Djatmika – Indonesian Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, 2020
The article discusses the quality of language exploitation performed by the students of the English Language Study Program in the City of Tulungagung in writing English text stories. The data was collected for 4 months, starting May up to August 2020 in IAIN Tulungagung campus in the sense of data collection, through the observation. This study…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Writing Strategies, Literary Genres, English (Second Language)
Hebert, Michael; Bohaty, Janet J.; Nelson, J. Ron; Roehling, Julia V. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
Informational text writing is a complex task requiring multiple literacy skills, such as reading and comprehending source material, identifying important information, and transforming ideas to meet the goals for the new writing task. The "Structures Writing" intervention was developed to improve the informational text writing skills of…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Intervention, Writing Skills, Elementary School Students
Hebert, Michael; Bohaty, Janet J.; Nelson, J. Ron; Roehling, Julia – Grantee Submission, 2018
Informational text writing is a complex task requiring multiple literacy skills, such as reading and comprehending source material, identifying important information, and transforming ideas to meet the goals for the new writing task. The "Structures Writing" intervention was developed to improve the informational text writing skills of…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Intervention, Writing Skills, Elementary School Students
Shi, Bibing; Huang, Liyan; Lu, Xiaofei – Language Testing, 2020
The continuation task, a new form of reading-writing integrated task in which test-takers read an incomplete story and then write the continuation and ending of the story, has been increasingly used in writing assessment, especially in China. However, language-test developers' understanding of the effects of important task-related factors on…
Descriptors: Cues, Writing Tests, Writing Evaluation, English (Second Language)
Huh, Myung-Hye; Lee, Inhwan; Kim, Junghwa – English Teaching, 2020
In this study, we propose a link between L2 rhetorical concepts and ELF as a way of the analysis of the development of a single concept, of an EFL college student's rhetorical knowledge. Using Vygotskian sociocultural theory as analytical lenses, we examine whether L2 rhetoric can be mastered and internalized as a culturally neutral concept, i.e.,…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Written Language, English (Second Language), Language Role
Al Otaiba, Stephanie; Connor, Carol McDonald; Crowe, Elizabeth – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
Research to guide text structure interventions for the primary grades is very limited, yet as early as in kindergarten, many state standards increasingly emphasize exposure to challenging expository texts. The purpose of the present study was to provide preliminary evidence of the feasibility and promise (or the effects) of three brief text…
Descriptors: Text Structure, Teaching Methods, Kindergarten, Grade 1
Teng, Feng – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2019
Purpose: This study aims to examine the writing outcomes of 6th-grade students learning English as a second language. Design/methodology/approach: In all 45 students in a text structure instruction (TSI) group were compared with 45 students in a self-regulated strategy instruction (SRSI) group and 43 students receiving traditional writing…
Descriptors: Text Structure, Outcomes of Education, Teaching Methods, Metacognition
Kallestinova, Elena – Learning Disabilities: A Contemporary Journal, 2017
The paper discusses argument pedagogy for graduate and professional students with learning disabilities (LD) in the context of academic writing. To understand the nature and types of writing problems that graduate and professional students with LD experience, the author presents results of a university-wide survey with the students who did and did…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Persuasive Discourse, Writing (Composition), Writing Processes
Huh, Myung-Hye; Lee, Inhwan – English Teaching, 2019
This study investigated EFL college students' culture-related templates of written texts along the possibility of inter-cultural transfer. We designed a case study to explore how certain cultural assumptions contribute to EFL students' rhetorical decisions while writing an argumentative writing. The participants were four EFL college students.…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Writing (Composition), College Students, Second Language Learning
Shen, Mei; Troia, Gary A. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2018
This study used a multiple-probe, multiple-baseline single-case design to investigate the efficacy of planning, and then revising strategy instruction using self-regulated strategy development on the compare-contrast writing performance of three late elementary students with language-learning disabilities. After receiving the planning instruction,…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Children, Language Acquisition, Language Impairments
Wei, Jing – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
The Theme is a major aspect of how speakers construct their messages in a way which makes them fit smoothly into the unfolding language event. Thematic choice provides clues as to how English learners organize information and shape their texts. Previous studies reveal that English learners deviated from English native speakers in their thematic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Academic Discourse, Instructional Effectiveness
Gagnon, Renee; Ziarko, Helene – Online Submission, 2012
This paper presents the results of a predicative analysis led on comparison and problem-solution texts produced by pupils of the second and third grades of primary school following a set of reading and writing instructional activities. The production of those texts is of a special challenge to the young writers because of the cognitive and…
Descriptors: Semantics, Foreign Countries, Expository Writing, Reading Instruction
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