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Rachel Schechter; Rumeysa Yucel – Online Submission, 2024
The insufficient focus on developing writing instruction in education is a significant problem. Despite the crucial link between writing and reading skills and their impact on academic and life success, there is a notable lack of emphasis on writing in schools. Writing A-Z is a digital-first program that helps teachers establish a writing…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Writing Processes, Writing Assignments
Kheradmand Saadi, Zahra – Online Submission, 2016
For Vygotsky, language is a cultural-psychological concept emerged from social interactions and is applied for higher cognitive functions such as thinking, meaning making, and knowledge construction. In this study, a sociocultural perspective was applied to analyze the language produced by 40 sophomore Iranian EFL learners during dialogic…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Discourse Analysis, Undergraduate Students, Classification
Carroll, Stacy; Feng, Jay – Online Submission, 2010
In the county schools, students are assessed every nine weeks based on a writing prompt using a rubric supplied by the county, but the students are often taught using Writer's Workshop. This action research attempted to determine if Writer's Workshop and the use of writing prompts have different effects on first graders' writing ability and…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Writing Attitudes, Action Research, Writing Tests
McCoy, Leah P., Ed. – Online Submission, 2015
This document presents the proceedings of the 20th Annual Research Forum held June 25, 2015, at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Included are the following 21 action research papers: (1) History Lives! The Use of Simulations in a High School Social Studies Classroom (Lydia Adkins); (2) Using Francophone Music in the High…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Action Research, Simulation, Social Studies
Rankin-Brown, Maria; Fitzpatrick, Carrie – Online Submission, 2007
Background: This study involved a bicoastal project between four composition classes, two in California and two in Pennsylvania. The focus was on how students read, write, and converse about ethnic and spiritual distinctiveness and the role of writing in identity development. Purpose: The researchers exercised a variety of methods (diverse…
Descriptors: Research Papers (Students), Writing (Composition), Student Attitudes, Cultural Awareness
Zen, Deqi – Online Submission, 2005
Writing activities have long been used in a foreign language class for reinforcing students' linguistic knowledge or other language skills. However teaching writing as writing in its own right has only been advocated in recent decades with the increasing awareness of second and foreign language students' needs to write for academic purposes in the…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Writing Processes, Language Skills, Writing Instruction
Al-Serhani, Wafa Fahed – Online Submission, 2007
This study investigated the effect of the portfolio assessment strategy to teach and assess writing performance of EFL third year students enrolled at the 3rd Secondary School, Skaka (Al-Jouf region). The purpose of the study was to determine whether a specific portfolio assessment model was effective in helping the students to improve their…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Writing Skills, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning