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Lee, Michael C. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this quantitative experimental posttest-only control group research study was to determine the degree to which differences exist in outcomes between students using a video game-based instruction and students using a traditional non-video game-based instruction in accelerated degree program courses at a 4-year university in Illinois…
Descriptors: Video Games, Educational Games, Writing Instruction, Writing Achievement
Myhill, Debra; Jones, Susan; Lines, Helen – Language and Education, 2018
Whilst historically there has been a widespread consensus that teaching grammar has no impact on students' attainment in writing, more recent research suggests that where a functionally oriented approach to grammar is meaningfully embedded within the teaching of writing, significant improvements in writing can be secured. A recent study, using a…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Writing Instruction, Quasiexperimental Design, Grammar
Kalali, Nazanin Naderi; Pishkar, Kian – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
The main thrust of this study was to determine whether a genre-based instruction improve the writing proficiency of Iranian EFL learners. To this end, 30 homogenous Iranian BA learners studying English at Islamic Azad University, Bandar Abbas Branch were selected as the participants of the study through a version of TOEFL test as the proficiency…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Mermelstein, Aaron David – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2015
This study's purpose is to seek out methods of improving reading and writing for EFL learners. This one-year study focuses on an enhanced design of extensive reading (ER) towards improving learners' writing abilities. Pre- and posttests used the Jacobs, Zingraf, Wormoth, Hartfield, and Hughey (1981) measurement of writing, including content,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Atashgahi, Bahareh Molazem – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
This study aimed to show whether administering a battery of time-series diagnostic tests (screening) has any impact on Iranian EFL learners' writing ability. The study was conducted on the intermediate EFL learners at Islamic Azad University North Tehran branch. The researcher administered a homogenizing test in order to exclude the exceptional…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Time, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Lin, Ming Huei; Li, Ji-Jhen; Hung, Po Yi; Huang, Hui-Wen – ELT Journal, 2014
This article investigates the effects of blogging as an approach to journal writing in the EFL writing classroom by means of a 16-week comparative experiment involving two groups of EFL college students. The experimental group (EG) was required to blog daily while the control group (CG) was asked to do so using traditional pen-and-paper methods.…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Wang, Shenggao; Vásquez, Camilla – CALICO Journal, 2014
This quasi-experimental study examined whether there was any difference in the quantity and quality of the written texts produced by two groups (N = 18) of intermediate Chinese language learners. Over one semester, students in the experimental (E) group wrote weekly updates and comments in Chinese on a designated Facebook group page, while…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Quasiexperimental Design, Chinese, Second Language Learning
Naghdipour, Bakhtiar; Koç, Sabri – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2015
The curriculum for teaching undergraduate university students in Iran majoring in English generally includes paragraph writing in the second year and essay writing (4-5 paragraphs) in the third year. The first-year course 'Grammar and Writing (I & II)' offered in two consecutive semesters covers grammar only, despite the inclusion of writing…
Descriptors: Intervention, Writing Instruction, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
Othman, Normala; Shah, Mohamed Ismail Ahamad – English Language Teaching, 2013
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of the problem-based learning approach (PBL) on students in language classes in two areas: course content and language development. The study was conducted on 128 students, grouped into the experimental and control groups, and employed an experimental research design. The syllabus, textbook,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Problem Based Learning, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Wanchid, Raveewan; Charoensuk, Valaikorn – English Language Teaching, 2015
The purposes of this study were to investigate the effects of the use of paper-based and weblog-based electronic portfolios on the writing achievement of limited English proficiency students, to survey the students' attitudes towards the use of the portfolio assessment, and to compare the viewpoints of the students in the control and experimental…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Diaries, Electronic Publishing, Limited English Speaking
What Works Clearinghouse, 2014
"Spelling Mastery" is designed to explicitly teach spelling skills to students in grades 1 through 6. One of several Direct Instruction curricula from McGraw-Hill that precisely specify how to teach incremental content, "Spelling Mastery" includes phonemic, morphemic, and whole-word strategies. The What Works Clearinghouse…
Descriptors: Spelling, Spelling Instruction, Elementary School Students, Direct Instruction
Al-Sayed, Rania Kamal Muhammad; Abdel-Haq, Eman Muhammad; El-Deeb, Mervat Abou-Bakr; Ali, Mahsoub Abdel-Sadeq – Online Submission, 2016
The present study aimed at developing the memoir writing skills as a creative non-fiction genre of second year distinguished governmental language preparatory school pupils using the a WebQuest model. Fifty participants from second year at Hassan Abu-Bakr Distinguished Governmental Language School at Al-Qanater Al-Khairia(Qalubia Governorate) were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Autobiographies, Personal Narratives, Writing Skills
Awada, Ghada – Cogent Education, 2016
This article reports the results of an experimental study on the effectiveness of mobile technology (WhatsApp) in improving the critique writing skills of English as a Foreign Language learners and increasing their motivation for learning. The participants (n = 52) are Average-English proficient learners enrolled in two writing courses given at…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Handheld Devices, Writing Evaluation, Writing Improvement
Jiang, Lin; Xiao, Hailing – English Language Teaching, 2014
This article reports on an 8-week study that investigated the differential effects of two written corrective feedback (CF) options on 92 low-intermediate EFL students' explicit and implicit knowledge of English articles and the extent to which language analytic ability might influence the effect of written CF. The study used a…
Descriptors: Error Correction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Cognitive Psychology
Shao, KaiQi; Yu, WeiHua; Ji, ZhongMin – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2013
The aim of this study was threefold: (1) to further examine the possibility of using literature-based activities to raise EFL students' emotional intelligence (hereafter EI) and (2) to see whether there is any relationship between students' EI and writing achievement, in addition (3) to shed light on the implementation of such activities into the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Emotional Intelligence, Writing Achievement
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