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Simon Mlundi – Anatolian Journal of Education, 2024
Writing skills are the most difficult language skills for students, especially those students with English as a Second Language (ESL) and as an English Foreign Language (EFL) in various academic institutions. This situation has made most college students fail to write effective academic works. This study assessed the effectiveness of the Editing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Law Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Harwood, Nigel – Written Communication, 2023
Various forms of proofreading of student writing take place in university contexts. Sometimes writers pay freelance proofreaders to edit their texts before submission for assessment; sometimes more informal arrangements take place, where friends, family, or coursemates proofread. Such arrangements raise ethical questions for universities…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Ethics, Writing Assignments
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Harwood, Nigel – Journal of Academic Ethics, 2019
L2 student writers in UK universities often seek the services of a 'proofreader' before submitting work for assessment, and the proliferation of freelance proofreaders and online proofreading agencies has led to debates about the ethics of the proofreading of student writing in publications such as "Times Higher Education". This study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethics, Proofreading, Writing (Composition)
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Aseeri, Fatimah Mohammed M. – Journal of Education and Learning, 2019
The present study aimed to address the extent to which faulty members and students at the department of English language at Najran University practice using the ways of written corrective feedback. The questionnaire, as the main study instrument was used to collect data while the descriptive analytical approach was used to analyze these collected…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing Teachers, Feedback (Response), Error Correction
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Harwood, Nigel – Written Communication, 2018
There has been much interest recently in researching the changes editors, supervisors, and other language brokers make to the writing of L2 researchers who are attempting to publish in English. However, studies focused on the presubmission proofreading of students' university essays are rarer. In this study of student proofreading, 14 UK…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Masters Programs, Writing (Composition)
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O'Brien, Josephine – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2015
The paper discusses the impact of developing a consciousness-raising approach in error correction at the sentence level to improve students' proofreading ability. Learners of English in a foreign language environment often rely on translation as a composing tool and while this may act as a scaffold and provide some support, it frequently leads to…
Descriptors: Consciousness Raising, Proofreading, Grammar, Error Correction
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Yen, Yung-Chin; Ho, Rong-Guey; Liao, Wen-Wei; Chen, Li-Ju – Educational Technology & Society, 2012
In a test, the testing score would be closer to examinee's actual ability when careless mistakes were corrected. In CAT, however, changing the answer of one item in CAT might cause the following items no longer appropriate for estimating the examinee's ability. These inappropriate items in a reviewable CAT might in turn introduce bias in ability…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Item Response Theory
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Carrió Pastor, María Luisa; Mestre-Mestre, Eva María – International Journal of English Studies, 2014
Nowadays, scientific writers are required not only a thorough knowledge of their subject field, but also a sound command of English as a lingua franca. In this paper, the lexical errors produced in scientific texts written in English by non-native researchers are identified to propose a classification of the categories they contain. This study…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Guidelines, Error Patterns
Salmani-Nodoushan, Mohammad Ali – Online Submission, 2007
In a study conducted to see which method of error treatment was more effective in EFL writing classes, 288 Iranian EFL learners took the TOEFL test to be grouped in two homogeneous classes. Each student in each group wrote a paragraph on a general topic which was proofread for mistakes/errors by three experienced EFL writing teachers (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Remedial Instruction, English (Second Language), Error Correction
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Salmani-Nodoushan, Mohammad Ali – Journal of Educational Technology, 2007
In a study conducted to see which method of error treatment was more effective in EFL writing classes, 288 Iranian EFL learners took the TOEFL test to be grouped in two homogeneous classes. Each student in each group wrote a paragraph on a general topic which was proofread for mistakes/errors by three experienced EFL writing teachers (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Assignments, Remedial Instruction, English (Second Language)