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Kim, YouJin; Choi, Bumyong; Kang, Sanghee; Kim, Binna; Yun, Hyunae – Foreign Language Annals, 2020
From a sociocultural perspective, collaborative writing tasks offer opportunities to negotiate in decision-making processes while also sharing responsibility for the production of a single text (Storch, 2013, "Collaborative writing in L2 classrooms." Bristol: Multilingual Matters). Although research has found benefits for such tasks…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Written Language, Korean, Second Language Learning
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Al-wossabi, Sami A. – English Language Teaching, 2014
Recent studies in corpus linguistics have revealed apparent inconsistencies between the prescriptive grammar presented in EFL textbooks and the type of grammar used in the speech of native speakers. Such variations and learning gaps deprive EFL learners of the actual use of English and delay their oral/aural developmental processes. The focus of…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Grammar, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Sun, Yu-Lin – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The Chinese writing system has traditionally organized the typographic text vertically, with one square-shaped character placed on top of another. With the influence of globalization, an increasing number of reading materials have been presented in the Western horizontal format, including school textbooks for children in Taiwan. This study looked…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Materials, Textbooks, Written Language
Keser, Hafize; Aydin, Burcu – Online Submission, 2007
In this study, the content analysis' categories and sub topics were drawn up for sixth and seventh grade computer textbooks in order to compare visual and verbal contents of these textbooks. Totally nine sixth and seventh grade computer textbooks which were chosen by Ministry of National Education were included in this study. These nine textbooks…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Computer Science Education, Textbooks, Classification
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Maleki, Ataollah – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2007
The possibility of teaching communication strategies and the feasibility of incorporating them into school syllabi have been a controversial issue. In the current study, 60 Iranian students were divided into two thirty-member classes; then two different textbooks, one with specific CS and the other without them, were chosen to be taught in the…
Descriptors: Communication Strategies, Textbooks, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning
Levie, W. Howard; Lentz, Richard – Educational Communication and Technology: A Journal of Theory, Research, and Development, 1982
Reviews results of 55 experiments comparing learning from illustrated text and learning from text alone. Research in closely related fields--nonrepresentational pictures (maps, diagrams, graphic organizers), learner-produced drawings, mental imagery, and oral prose--is also examined, and guidelines for practice are offered. A 160-item reference…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Diagrams, Graphic Arts, Illustrations