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Teh-yi Dori Huang – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Attaining Advanced proficiency and beyond has been a principal goal for second language learners, practitioners, and researchers. Achieving this level in writing requires producing connected discourse of paragraph-level length and nurturing the ability to arrange various linguistic units to form a unified and cohesive whole. This ability, known as…
Descriptors: High School Students, Second Language Learning, Chinese, Bilingual Education Programs
Benjamin S. Naismith – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study investigates how aspects of collocational proficiency affect the ratings that expert examiners give to second language (L2) English learner essays. Lexical proficiency is a multi-faceted phenomenon and certain aspects of it are particularly impactful on human judgements, including lexical sophistication and accuracy. However, the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, Writing (Composition), Essays
Durinova, Marina A. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Writing in English as a second or additional language has become an important skill that can be applied in many areas of human activity. As we become a society within which written text is an important instrument that helps create new ideas, services, and products, English text is often used as a preferred mode of communication. Traditionally…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Creative Writing
Shabnam Behzad – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Second language learners constitute a significant and expanding portion of the global population and there is a growing demand for tools that facilitate language learning and instruction across various levels and in different countries. The development of large language models (LLMs) has brought about a significant impact on the domains of natural…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Software, Computational Linguistics, Second Language Learning
Kara Williams – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study investigated factors that are related to student success in using and learning from written corrective feedback (WCF). Focusing on learner affective variables and a student writing corpus collected over the span of a semester, different types of feedback and errors were investigated. Previous studies have focused on one or, at the most,…
Descriptors: Written Language, Feedback (Response), Error Patterns, Error Correction
Ning Fan – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Articulating ideas in writing based on English conventions may be one of the biggest challenges for English as a foreign language students, which makes corrective feedback (CF) an indispensable part in writing practice. In terms of providing CF, researchers have claimed that indirect CF has a number of advantages for the improvement of students'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Feedback (Response), Teacher Response
Weejeong Jeong – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study is an investigation of the effects of linguistic features on quality of second language (L2) writers' essays for writing course placement at Indiana University Bloomington (IUB), and by implication at other universities and colleges. This study addresses the following research questions: (1) To what extent do selected linguistic…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Language Usage, Second Language Learning, College Students
Silver, Patrice – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study examined the differences and similarities among the writing of three types of developmental English and advanced ESL United States community college students, comparing the writing of resident English learners (RL2), whose home language was not English but who attended United States public schools for five years or more, to that of…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Essays
Tuc C. Chau – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of the current dissertation is to map the relationships between first language (L1), writing quality, and syntactic complexity, accuracy, lexical complexity, and fluency (CALF) in second language (L2) writing. CALF are characteristics of language production that have been of significant interest in L2 writing research for the past few…
Descriptors: Correlation, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Musbah Abdussayed – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The influence of tests and assessments on learning and teaching is known as the washback effect. The purpose of this study is to investigate the washback effect of self and peer assessment in Arabic writing as a second language. The study was conducted on high school advanced Arabic learners at an Islamic school in the USA. The study examines the…
Descriptors: High School Students, Second Language Learning, Arabic, Religious Schools
George Clinton Denison – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Enabling learners to successfully use their second language (L2) in meaningful ways is a critical goal of instruction. Ultimately, most learners want to meet the L2 demands of the contexts in which they will use the language. To accomplish this, learners must develop linguistic knowledge and apply it in a manner that is contextually appropriate…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Rock, Kristin Naomi – ProQuest LLC, 2021
With the accelerated move to online learning, writing skills have become increasingly important for managing digital genres, such as educational blogs and discussion forums. Although effective written communication via such media is important for student success, many university-level second language learners navigate these unfamiliar tasks…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Writing (Composition), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Takahashi, Jun – ProQuest LLC, 2022
While written corrective feedback (WCF) is expected to help learners build new knowledge (Bitchener and Storch, 2016), engagement with WCF is not always satisfactory (Ferris, Liu, Sinha, and Senna, 2013). The purpose of this case study is to explore engagement with WCF by undergraduate of Japanese as a foreign language (JFL) at the elementary…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Japanese, Essays
Yang, Kai – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Second language (L2) writing teaching and research in China have enjoyed a rich history and have had remarkable achievements. However, the extensive L2 writing literature created in China has not yet been analyzed comprehensively from theoretical, methodological, and philosophical perspectives. This research synthesis provides a metadisciplinary…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing Research, Foreign Countries
Yiran Xu – ProQuest LLC, 2020
In the past three decades, the construct of second language (L2) writing complexity has been theorized and refined in both second language acquisition (SLA) (Crossley, 2020; Housen, De Clercq, Kuiken, & Vedder, 2019; Lu, 2011; Norris & Ortega, 2009) and Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) research (Byrnes, 2009; Ryshina-Pankova, 2015;…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Difficulty Level, Academic Language, Language Usage