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Alhassan, Awad – Cogent Education, 2019
Student writing in university contexts, especially in the area of business, has relatively been under-researched in the English for academic purposes (EAP) literature. Many previous studies have only labelled the types of student writing in the academe. Although labeling is essential as a starting point to map out and understand student writing at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Business Administration Education, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Konieczny, Piotr; Eckert, Kenneth – English in Education, 2022
Wikipedia is one of the most important innovations of the Internet age and has been analysed and criticised within higher educational settings for how it is utilised by students or academics for essay assignments or research. Less work has been done on how content writing for Wikipedia may be deployed as an instructional tool and its pedagogical…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Liberal Arts, Case Studies, Collaborative Writing
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Shi, Zhan; Liu, Fengkai; Lai, Chun; Jin, Tan – Language Learning & Technology, 2022
Automated Writing Evaluation (AWE) systems have been found to enhance the accuracy, readability, and cohesion of writing responses (Stevenson & Phakiti, 2019). Previous research indicates that individual learners may have difficulty utilizing content-based AWE feedback and collaborative processing of feedback might help to cope with this…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Accuracy
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Castillo, Rigoberto; Rojas, María del Pilar – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2014
This paper reports an action research study aimed at understanding how to sensitize young English language learners towards caring for the environment. The pedagogical intervention in a 5th grade class consisted in the use of creative writing strategies to express learners' ideas. Three stages were followed: "recognizing facts,"…
Descriptors: Action Research, English Language Learners, Grade 5, Elementary School Students
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Manzano Vázquez, Borja – International Journal of English Studies, 2014
Previous research on the difference in terms of lexical transfer between CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) and non-CLIL students has revealed that CLIL students produce fewer lexical transfer errors than non-CLIL students. This study aimed at comparing the lexical transfer production of two groups of students (CLIL and non-CLIL) and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Transfer of Training
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Haghighi, Somayeh Biparva – International Education Studies, 2012
It is commonly observed that training in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) cannot successfully guarantee skills in English for Occupational Purposes (EOP). This study proposes an EOP-oriented course in an academic setting. It is designed to equip undergraduate students of engineering with general skills for EOP practices to meet students' future…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English for Academic Purposes, Course Descriptions, Second Language Learning