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Huei-Ju, Shih – English Language Teaching, 2018
This article aims at proposing a new measurement to assess the effects of language learners' goal-setting behavior, as an alternative to the traditional open-ended questionnaire. This goal-setting instrument was carefully developed through three phases. In the first phase, an item pool was generated. In the second phase, a pilot study was carried…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Personal Autonomy, Goal Orientation
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Huang, Harry J. – English Language Teaching, 2008
No published studies have sufficiently focused on essay topic writability from the perspective of college writers of the new millennium including native English speakers and ESL speakers. In this study, 500 college writers in Metro Toronto in Canada were interviewed to uncover if they found some essay topics easier than other topics. The results…
Descriptors: Essays, Writing (Composition), Statistical Analysis, English (Second Language)