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Jeanette Calo – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this mixed methods action research project was to address the problem of practice of incorporating foundational grammar, spelling, and punctuation (GSP) instruction into community college journalism classes through the intervention of online interactive modules called The Story Mechanics Project (SMP). The modules were developed and…
Descriptors: Journalism Education, Spelling, Punctuation, Community College Students
Stuart, Latazia – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This applied dissertation was designed to understand and explore common faculty perceptions of why some faculty engage their online healthcare graduate students who are deficient in writing skills to improve and what interventions they used. This study utilized a case study qualitative approach to collect and analyze the data. This study explored…
Descriptors: Graduate School Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Electronic Learning, Allied Health Occupations Education
Songkhao, Rujira – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This study investigated the writing results from an existing data set of 36 students who performed braille writing dictation through the repeated writing activity in the braille writing app. The data was the writing results of students between the first and the sixth grade levels. Results were categorized into types of errors, the most common…
Descriptors: Blindness, Visual Impairments, Braille, Writing Assignments
Sizemore, Mary L. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this two-phase, explanatory mixed methods study was to understand the benefits of teaching grammar from three different learning methods: face-to-face, online personalized learning lab and a blended learning method. The study obtained quantitative results from a pre and post-tests, a general survey and writing assignment rubrics…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Educational Benefits, Conventional Instruction, Electronic Learning
Young Joo Han – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Second language (L2) writing research has shed light on the important question of whether instructors' feedback (written and/or oral) is beneficial for students' writing (Conrad & Goldstein, 1999; Bitchener, 2008; Ferris, 2006; Truscott, 2007), and yet there are still debates about the efficacy of teacher feedback. One of the reasons why this…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing (Composition)
O'Neill, Errol Marinus – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Online translation (OT) sites such as Free Translation and Babel Fish are freely available to the general public and purport to convert inputted text, from single words to entire paragraphs, instantly from one language to another. Discussion in the literature about OT for second-language (L2) acquisition has generally focused either on the…
Descriptors: French, Second Language Learning, Translation, Computational Linguistics
Rankin, Sherry L. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The language shortcuts used in text messages are becoming evident in students' academic writing assignments. This qualitative study sought to determine if the use of the shortcuts has an adverse impact on developmental students' spelling and grammar skills. This research was based on the constructivist theory, which rationalizes that students use…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Writing Assignments, Writing Exercises, Program Effectiveness