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de Brusa, Maria Fernanda Poveda; Harutyunyan, Liliya – English Language Teaching, 2019
Higher education focuses on promoting the training of autonomous, critical professionals who adapt to the ever-more demanding labor market. To achieve these objectives, it is necessary to rethink teaching practices in order to allow the student to be the main actor and modeler for their learning process. Previous studies based on Vygotsky's…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Writing Evaluation, Essays, Academic Language
Dirgeyasa, I Wy. – English Language Teaching, 2016
In Indonesian education context, recently the word "genre" seems to gain its most popular and hot issue to teaching and learning English, particularly writing skill. However, many of them the students, teachers, or university students, or even lecturers in universities apparently are not good at understanding and are not truly well…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literary Genres, Writing Instruction, Writing Skills
Aloairdhi, Nafilah M. – English Language Teaching, 2019
Writing is an important skill in language learning and in academic achievement. The level of writing anxiety could affect students' achievements positively or negatively. This research aimed to examine the writing anxiety among Saudi female learners enrolled in English language departments at some Saudi universities. It also aimed to identify the…
Descriptors: Writing Apprehension, Academic Achievement, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Alharbi, Sultan H. – English Language Teaching, 2017
The principal purpose of this paper is to critically examine and evaluate the efficacy of the principled eclectic approach to teaching English as second/foreign language (ESL/EFL) writing to undergraduate students. The paper illustrates that this new method adapts mainstream writing pedagogies to individual needs of learners of ESL/EFL in order to…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing Instruction
Ying, Zhang – English Language Teaching, 2018
English writing is regarded as the most difficult task by Chinese EFL learners. Due to the existing problems in present college English writing instruction, teachers fail to provide effective guidance in students' writing process and students report a low level of motivation and confidence in writing tasks. Through purposeful reading discussions…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency
Jiang, Lin; Xu, Xin – English Language Teaching, 2016
A continuation task provides learners with a text with its ending removed and requires them to complete it through writing in a most coherent and logical way. The current study investigated (a) whether the continuation task had a positive effect on text cohesion and (b) whether texts produced by pairs exhibited higher cohesion than those produced…
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Collaborative Writing
Chen, Jinshi – English Language Teaching, 2017
Legal case brief writing is pedagogically important yet insufficiently discussed for Chinese EFL learners majoring in law. Based on process genre approach and discourse information theory (DIT), the present study designs a corpus-based analytical model for Chinese EFL learners' autonomy in legal case brief writing and explores the process of case…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Writing (Composition)
Shafiee, Sajad; Koosha, Mansour; Afghar, Akbar – English Language Teaching, 2015
This study sought to explore the effect of teaching prewriting strategies through different methods of input delivery (i.e. conventional, web-based, and hybrid) on EFL learners' writing quantity. In its quasi-experimental study, the researchers recruited 98 available sophomores, and assigned them to three experimental groups (conventional,…
Descriptors: Prewriting, Writing Strategies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Jayaron, Jose; Abidin, Mohammed Jafre Zainol – English Language Teaching, 2016
Use of educational technologies has become increasingly significant in the field of English Language Learning. Both the teachers and students are dependent on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and its different tools for teaching and learning in particular, and socialization in general. The scope and significance of the study on the…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Abdalla Salih, Abdel Rahman – English Language Teaching, 2013
This paper reports the corrective feedback patterns in L2 writing and the student writers' preferences for peer feedback. The study examines the actual focus of peer review and the types of corrective feedback provided in L2 composing process. Sixteen L2 matriculation students at a Malaysian university took part in five peer review sessions,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Feedback (Response), Error Correction, Preferences
Wakabayashi, Reina – English Language Teaching, 2013
The purpose of this study is to determine which is more beneficial to improving learner writing: reviewing peer texts or one's own text. The study took place over one semester at a Japanese university with 51 students enrolled in two writing classes at two proficiency levels. The students at the lower proficiency level reviewed peer texts, while…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Scores, Student Attitudes
Piri, Faramarz; Barati, Hossein; Ketabi, Saeed – English Language Teaching, 2012
Previous studies on the effect of planning on language production have revealed that planning does have a positive effect on language performance in terms of fluency, complexity, and accuracy. The present study was an attempt to investigate the effects of pre-task, on-line, and both pre-task and on-line planning on fluency, accuracy, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction