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Hamdollah Ravand; Farshad Effatpanah; Wenchao Ma; Jimmy de la Torre; Purya Baghaei; Olga Kunina-Habenicht – Applied Measurement in Education, 2024
The purpose of this study was to explore the nature of interactions among second/foreign language (L2) writing subskills. Two types of relationships were investigated: subskill-item and subskill-subskill relationships. To achieve the first purpose, using writing data obtained from the writing essays of 500 English as a foreign language (EFL)…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Writing Instruction, Writing Skills, Writing Tests
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L. L. Aull – Across the Disciplines, 2024
This article traces the history of college writing and suggests a different way ahead. To show why we need this approach, the article historicizes the start of postsecondary English as a paradoxical one, committed to egalitarian ideals while privileging narrow and exclusive English usage. To offer an alternative approach, the article synthesizes…
Descriptors: College Students, Writing (Composition), Postsecondary Education, English
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Özdemir, Esin; Arslan, Ali – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2016
This study aims to determine the effect of self-regulated jigsaw IV upon university students' learning a new grammar structure within EFL learning process and also their attitudes towards the English course. The research was carried out with 40 students studying in two different prep classes at Bulent Ecevit University Foreign Languages College in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Student Attitudes, Grammar, Text Structure
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Liu, Ming; Li, Yi; Xu, Weiwei; Liu, Li – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2017
Writing an essay is a very important skill for students to master, but a difficult task for them to overcome. It is particularly true for English as Second Language (ESL) students in China. It would be very useful if students could receive timely and effective feedback about their writing. Automatic essay feedback generation is a challenging task,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Suzuki, Manami – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2008
The current study examined 24 Japanese university students' processes of negotiation in conditions of self revision and of peer revision about their English as a foreign language (EFL) writing. Analyzing their negotiation episodes and text changes, I categorized within a common coding scheme the types of negotiation from (a) think-aloud protocols…
Descriptors: Text Structure, Protocol Analysis, College Students, Revision (Written Composition)