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Bahaziq, Afnan – English Language Teaching, 2016
Discourse is essential in communicating thoughts and ideas. People around the world communicate their ideas through stretches of language. In order to understand any discourse, it must achieve cohesion. The purpose of this paper is to define and describe the cohesive devices based on the work of Halliday and Hasan (1976). It also aims to emphasize…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Academic Discourse, Discourse Analysis, Essays
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Alavi, Sayyed Mohammad; Taghizadeh, Mahboubeh – Educational Assessment, 2014
Dynamic assessment is a procedure in which development is simultaneously assessed and improved with regard to the individual's or group's Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD; Lantolf & Poehner, 2004). This study aimed to follow dynamic assessment and investigate the impact of three types of implicit and explicit feedback on the essay writing of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Alternative Assessment, Writing Evaluation, Feedback (Response)
Jones, Nathan Brian; Wang, Shun Hwa – Online Submission, 2004
The issue of whether or not to correct errors in students' writing is controversial. Some scholars argue that error correction is helpful, while others argue that it is ineffective, perhaps even harmful. What is missing from the literature are studies about how error correction might affect the performance of specific types of students. This…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Writing Skills, Program Effectiveness, English (Second Language)