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Saira Anwar; Ahmed Ashraf Butt; Muhsin Menekse – Grantee Submission, 2023
This study explored the effectiveness of scaffolding in students' reflection writing process. We compared two sections of an introductory computer programming course (N=188). In Section 1, students did not receive any scaffolding while generating reflections, whereas in Section 2, students were scaffolded during the reflection writing process.…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Writing Instruction, Writing Processes, Writing (Composition)
Degraeuwe, Jasper; Goethals, Patrick – Research-publishing.net, 2022
This paper presents a reflection on the design of an Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning (ICALL) 'ecosystem', integrated into an online learning environment for Spanish as a Foreign Language (SFL). The innovative dimension of the ecosystem lies in its triple focus: apart from enabling users to create and use intelligent language…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Spanish
Zhang, H.; Magooda, A.; Litman, D.; Correnti, R.; Wang, E.; Matsumura, L. C.; Howe, E.; Quintana, R. – Grantee Submission, 2019
Writing a good essay typically involves students revising an initial paper draft after receiving feedback. We present eRevise, a web-based writing and revising environment that uses natural language processing features generated for rubric-based essay scoring to trigger formative feedback messages regarding students' use of evidence in…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Essays, Writing (Composition), Revision (Written Composition)
Allen, Laura K.; Jacovina, Matthew E.; Dascalu, Mihai; Roscoe, Rod D.; Kent, Kevin M.; Likens, Aaron D.; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2016
This study investigates how and whether information about students' writing can be recovered from basic behavioral data extracted during their sessions in an intelligent tutoring system for writing. We calculate basic and time-sensitive keystroke indices based on log files of keys pressed during students' writing sessions. A corpus of prompt-based…
Descriptors: Essays, Writing Processes, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction
Johnson, Amy M.; McCarthy, Kathryn S.; Kopp, Kristopher J.; Perret, Cecile A.; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2017
Intelligent tutoring systems for ill-defined domains, such as reading and writing, are critically needed, yet uncommon. Two such systems, the Interactive Strategy Training for Active Reading and Thinking (iSTART) and Writing Pal (W-Pal) use natural language processing (NLP) to assess learners' written (i.e., typed) responses and provide immediate,…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Writing Instruction, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Reading Strategies
Allen, Laura K.; Mills, Caitlin; Jacovina, Matthew E.; Crossley, Scott; D'Mello, Sidney; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2016
Writing training systems have been developed to provide students with instruction and deliberate practice on their writing. Although generally successful in providing accurate scores, a common criticism of these systems is their lack of personalization and adaptive instruction. In particular, these systems tend to place the strongest emphasis on…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Psychological Patterns, Writing Instruction, Essays
Lai, Shu-Li – Research-publishing.net, 2015
A number of studies have suggested the potentials of corpus tools in vocabulary learning. However, there are still some concerns. Corpus tools might be too complicated to use; example sentences retrieved from corpus tools might be too difficult to understand; processing large number of sample sentences could be challenging and time-consuming;…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Student Attitudes
Katz, Steven B. – 1989
Much revisionist scholarship has focused on sophistic epistemology and its relationship to the current revival of epistemic rhetoric in the academy. However, few scholars have recognized the sensuous substance of words as sounds, and the role it played in sophistic philosophy and rhetoric. Before the invention of the Greek alphabet, poetry was…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Greek Civilization, Higher Education, Language Processing
King, Mary – 1983
A text's meaning is, in part, independent of its form. Reading, most of the time, is taking meaning--not words--from the printed page, while proofreading requires attention to form rather than meaning. The author notes that: (1) a meaningful passage is easier to read than one with less meaning; (2) errors in oral reading usually do not obscure a…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Reading Comprehension, Revision (Written Composition), Writing Evaluation
Coe, Richard M. – 1984
An assignment given to students at the end of an advanced composition class empowers students by helping them grasp principles and develop abilities that allow them to get beyond needing teachers. The crux of the assignment is a heuristic for analyzing any particular type of writing for the purpose of learning to produce it. The students are…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Heuristics, Higher Education, Language Processing
Whale, Kathleen B. – 1985
Extending an earlier Donald Graves study by including students over seven years of age, this study identified relationships among the nature of writing tasks assigned by teachers and the written responses of elementary school students to those tasks. One class each at the third, fifth, and seventh grade levels provided eighteen sets of writing…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Language Processing, Student Reaction, Writing Exercises
Lovejoy, Kim Brian – 1985
H.P. Grice's theory of conversation can be used effectively to teach revision in composition courses because it teaches students the rules for effective writing. Grice has formulated a general principle, the Cooperative Principle, based on the assumption that talk-exchanges among speakers are "cooperative efforts" having "a common…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Higher Education, Language Processing, Models
Wrobleski, Diane – 1985
Three different ways of integrating writing and thinking into the classroom are using double-entry notebooks, literature logs, and process journals. In a double-entry notebook, the writer takes notes on the reading, collects direct quotations, makes observational notes, and writes fragments, lists, and images on the left side of the notebook. On…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Expository Writing, Language Processing, Literature Appreciation
Wolski, Paul – 1981
Research in secondary school composition instruction indicates that (1) emphasis on writing for the teacher-as-examiner is prevalent, (2) prewriting activities are limited, (3) there is little discussion of approaches to the topic or what information should be included, and (4) activities to help students while they are writing are almost…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Language Processing, Prewriting, Secondary Education
Ney, James W. – 1981
Sentence combining exercises present material to the students to be mastered by processes similar to memorization. By taking ideas in short sentences and compacting them into larger sentences, students become familiar with the relationships between the ideas in the short sentences. At its best, sentence combining is a process that requires the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Language Acquisition, Language Processing