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Jie Liu – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
The mixed-method study firstly drew on regression analysis to check what influential variables were in constructing authorial voice of 45 Chinese MTI students (postgraduates) in an EFL writing course, and then based upon quantitative findings, qualitatively examined how students' EFL writing may resonate with voice teaching in the course with data…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Chung, Huy Q.; Chen, Vicky; Olson, Carol Booth – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
Writing on-demand, text-based analytical essays is a challenging skill to master. Novice writers, such as the sixth grade US students in this study, may lack background knowledge of how to compose an effective essay, the self-efficacy skills, and the goal setting skills that will help with completing this task in accomplished ways. This sequential…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Individuals), Planning, Goal Orientation, Reflection
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Doe, Christine – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2015
Diagnostic assessment is increasingly being recognized as a potentially beneficial tool for teaching and learning (Jang, 2012). There have been calls in the research literature for students to receive diagnostic feedback and for researchers to investigate how such feedback is used by students. Therefore, this study examined how students…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Feedback (Response), Student Attitudes, English for Academic Purposes
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Dalziel, Fiona; Davies, Gillian; Han, Amy – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2016
The European Language Portfolio (ELP) was designed as a tool that "supports reflective learning and fosters the development of learner autonomy" (Little 2009, "The European Language Portfolio: Where pedagogy and assessment meet". Strasbourg: Council of Europe.…
Descriptors: Modern Languages, Undergraduate Students, Portfolios (Background Materials), Second Language Learning
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Roux, Ruth; Mora, Alberto; Tamez, Axel – English Language Teaching, 2012
This case study examined the level of reflection in the essays written by 15 Mexican English language teachers taking a Master's Degree course in English as a foreign language (EFL). The essays were evaluated using the categorization scheme for assessing the level of reflection developed by Kember, et al. (2008). Semi-structured interviews were…
Descriptors: Case Studies, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction