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Direct linkLee, Senyung; Lim, Gad S.; Basse, Rachel – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2021
This study investigated the extent to which an extended time limit in an argumentative writing test affects the quality of argumentation in L2 writing. Thirty-two adult ESL learners each wrote two essays on different prompts, one in 30 minutes and one in 45 minutes in a counter-balanced design. The 64 essays were analytically rated by four trained…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Persuasive Discourse, Writing (Composition), Adult Learning
Download full textTomak, Burak – African Educational Research Journal, 2021
Writing is one of the productive skills for language learners. This study was conducted to design a unit for language students who were enrolled in the School of Foreign Languages in one of the most prestigious Turkish state universities located in Istanbul. These learners had been taught different academic essay types in this educational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Design, Writing Instruction, Persuasive Discourse
Abdullahi, Musa Siddiq; Salisu, Musa – Anatolian Journal of Education, 2017
This study evaluated essay writing among Senior Secondary School Arabic students in Kwara State, Nigeria. This study evaluated the content, organization, expression and mechanics aspects of essay writing among senior secondary school Arabic students on the basis of gender and school ownership in Kwara State, Nigeria. A total number of 174 students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Essays, Writing Skills
Dobbs, Christina L.; Kearns, Devin – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2016
Understanding academic vocabulary is essential to student success in school. Use of academic vocabulary words in writing is considered one of the strongest measures of how well a reader understands a given word. In theory, willingness to use academic vocabulary in writing indicates the complexity of acquiring representations of the word's…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Academic Discourse, Writing (Composition), Essays
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
Paziraie, Mandana Eftekhar – English Language Teaching, 2013
This study is devoted to the effect of "textual metafunction" on the levels of coherence and cohesion in the Iranian EFL learners' English writing performance. Sixty Iranian intermediate EFL learners who were adult females participated in this study were randomly divided into two groups; experimental, and control. They were given a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Writing Skills
Olson, Carol Booth; Kim, James S.; Scarcella, Robin; Kramer, Jason; Pearson, Matthew; van Dyk, David A.; Collins, Penny; Land, Robert E. – American Educational Research Journal, 2012
In this study, 72 secondary English teachers from the Santa Ana Unified School District were randomly assigned to participate in the Pathway Project, a cognitive strategies approach to teaching interpretive reading and analytical writing, or to a control condition involving typical district training focusing on teaching content from the textbook.…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Writing Tests, English (Second Language), Teaching Methods
Moore, Tim; Morton, Janne – Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2005
A challenge for many EAP teachers working on pre-sessional programs is to find ways to reconcile the dual aims of preparing students for university study and for the IELTS test. The study described here seeks to provide some guidance on this issue through an analysis of the type of writing required in the two domains. We compared the standard…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Academic Discourse, Discourse Analysis, Writing Research
