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Lee, Icy; Coniam, David – Journal of Second Language Writing, 2013
While there has been a proliferation of research on assessment for learning (AFL) over the past two decades, L2 writing assessment has tended to focus much more on assessment of learning (AOL) than AFL. This study seeks to investigate the implementation of AFL for EFL writing within an examination-driven AOL system in Hong Kong, its possible…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Evaluation, Performance Based Assessment, Writing Achievement
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Bitchener, John – Journal of Second Language Writing, 2008
The extent to which ESL learners benefit from written corrective feedback has been debated at length since Truscott (1996) mounted a case for its abolition. Ten years later, the debate continues, not only because little attention has been given to testing its efficacy over time but also because studies that have investigated the issue have not…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Metalinguistics, Feedback (Response), Foreign Countries
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Lee, Given; Schallert, Diane L. – Journal of Second Language Writing, 2008
Using a case study approach, we explored the role of the teacher-student relationship in how a teacher made written comments on students' writing and in how students responded to these comments in revision. The focal participants were one non-native teacher of English and two of the students enrolled in her six-week composition course in a Korean…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Writing Instruction, Teacher Student Relationship, Revision (Written Composition)
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Li, Yongyan; Flowerdew, John – Journal of Second Language Writing, 2007
Researchers of scholarly literacy are becoming more aware that a published research article, especially if it is written by an English as an Additional Language (EAL) author, needs to be viewed as a product involving a range of "shapers" who participate in the editorial process (e.g., Burrough-Boenisch, 2003). Drawing on data gathered…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research Universities, Editing, Writing for Publication
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Lee, Icy – Journal of Second Language Writing, 2004
Error correction research has focused mostly on whether teachers should correct errors in student writing and how they should go about it. Much less has been done to ascertain L2 writing teachers' perceptions and practices as well as students' beliefs and attitudes regarding error feedback. The present investigation seeks to explore the existing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Surveys, Student Surveys, Writing Teachers
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Cumming, Alister; So, Sufumi – Journal of Second Language Writing, 1996
Describes the dynamics of problem solving through spoken discourse in one-to-one tutoring of second-language writing in order to determine whether these processes vary with either instructional approach or language used. Tutors' and students' cooperative efforts to solve problems in the students' draft compositions focused primarily on local…
Descriptors: College Students, Cultural Influences, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language)