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Rezvani, Reza; Miri, Parisa – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2023
This study investigates how sensitizing graduate L2 students about source-text use might affect their citation practices. Two summary writing tasks involving two similar published articles, one irrelevant and one pertinent to source-text use, were assigned individually to 16 graduate English language teaching students from Iran. After completing…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Graduate Students
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Kaixuan Wang; Lawrence Jun Zhang; Maria Cooper – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2025
There has been substantial research on the effects of metacognitive instruction on improving L2 learners' language skills. However, little is known about the impact of such instruction on improving the effectiveness of L2 students' collaborative writing. To fill this research gap, we conducted a quasi-experimental study to investigate how such an…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Comparative Analysis, Metacognition, Accuracy
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Lijuan Han – SAGE Open, 2024
In this study, an explanatory sequential design was utilized to examine the impact of strategy-based instruction (SBI) on the writing performance and motivation of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners in a writing course. A total of 50 Chinese EFL students were selected from two intact classes and were randomly assigned to either the…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language)
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Ying-Hsueh Cheng – Educational Technology & Society, 2023
Many students who study English as a foreign language (EFL) often find it challenging to paraphrase while writing from source texts. Lacking such an ability can lead to different meanings as well as copying another person's ideas, words or work. However, little research has been done to integrate tool consultation to assist students in…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Phrase Structure
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Yi-Chun Christine Yang – Taiwan Journal of TESOL, 2024
This study examines the relationship between EFL students' noticing and three written feedback strategies. The convenience sampling method was adopted and four intact classes were randomly assigned into four groups: the model, the error correction, the reformulation, and the control groups. After the completion of picture-cued writing tasks as…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Error Correction
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Garcia-Echeverry, Adriana; Novozhenina, Alexandra – HOW, 2023
This qualitative research project aims to determine the impact that Task-Based Instruction had on fifteen Intermediate English language students´ writing skills in online classes at a private institute in Cartagena. A journal, a questionnaire, and a checklist were used as instruments to collect information during the diagnostic stage. During the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Check Lists
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John, Cheryl – TESL Canada Journal, 2022
A review of the literature on English second language (L2) writing skills reveals a need for more research on the workplace writing experiences of L2 professionals employed in English as an additional language (EAL) contexts. Through a semi-structured interview and a think-aloud activity, this study gathered qualitative data with the aim of…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Work Environment, Foreign Countries, Self Concept
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Inan-Karagul, Banu; Seker, Meral – SAGE Open, 2021
The study aims to explore the impacts of an online training scheme developed for higher education learners that integrates self-regulated learning (SRL) writing strategies into screencast feedback in line with the cyclical model of SRL (i.e., forethought, performance, and reflection on performance phases). During each phase, cognitive,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Metacognition, Writing Strategies, Writing Instruction
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Xie, Qin; Lei, Yuqi – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2022
This research conducted diagnostic assessment of problems in first-year undergraduates' English academic papers and tracked potential sources of the problems to the writing process and strategy use. Data collected include 339 term papers and interviews with 17 students. The samples were manually error tagged and marked against a detailed…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Metacognition
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Lee, Minsang – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2020
This study explored the English writing strategies of Korean university students by focusing on the relationship between their study abroad experiences and English writing strategies. The theoretical framework for this study is activity theory. Activity theory explicates social phenomena including human learning, by the interaction of social…
Descriptors: Writing Strategies, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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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)
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Chen, Zhenzhen; Chen, Weichao; Jia, Jiyou; Le, Huixiao – Language Learning & Technology, 2022
Despite the growing interest in investigating the pedagogical application of Automated Writing Evaluation (AWE) systems, studies on the process of AWE-supported writing are still scant. Adopting activity theory as the framework, this qualitative study aims to examine how students incorporated AWE feedback into their writing in an English as a…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing Processes, Teaching Methods, Learning Strategies
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Lee, Sangmin-Michelle – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2020
Although it remains controversial, machine translation (MT) has gained popularity both inside and outside of the classroom. Despite the growing number of students using MT, little is known about its use as a pedagogical tool in the EFL classroom. The present study investigated the role of MT as a CALL tool in EFL writing. Most studies on MT as a…
Descriptors: Translation, Computational Linguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Soltani, Azimeh; Kheirzadeh, Shiela – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2017
This study aimed to explore EFL students' use of writing strategies and their attitudes towards reading-to-write and writing-only tasks. The primary purpose of this study was to see whether there was any significant difference between the writing performance of reading-to-write and writing-only task groups of Iranian EFL learners. Also, this study…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Questionnaires
Al-Sayed, Rania Kamal Muhammad; Abdel-Haq, Eman Muhammad; El-Deeb, Mervat Abou-Bakr; Ali, Mahsoub Abdel-Sadeq – Online Submission, 2016
The present study aimed at developing English language planning strategy of second year distinguished governmental language preparatory school pupils using the a WebQuest model. Fifty participants from second year at Hassan Abu-Bakr Distinguished Governmental Language School at Al-Qanater Al-Khairia (Qalubia Governorate) were randomly assigned…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Web Sites
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