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Jung, Jookyoung; Lee, Minjin – Language Awareness, 2023
This study explored second language (L2) reading and recall processes under different reading purposes, as reflected in their eye-movements during reading, keystrokes produced from summary writing, and stimulated recall comments. Seventy-two Korean undergraduate students read an English essay for different purposes, i.e., reading to extract the…
Descriptors: Recall (Psychology), Eye Movements, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Baaijen, Veerle M.; Galbraith, David – Cognition and Instruction, 2018
This study compares a problem-solving account of discovery through writing, which attributes discovery to strategic rhetorical planning and assumes discovery is associated with better quality text, to a dual-process account, which attributes discovery to the combined effect of 2 conflicting processes with opposing relationships to text quality.…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Writing Strategies, Metacognition, Correlation
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Jookyoung Jung – English Teaching, 2017
The influence of task complexity on second language (L2) writing performance has been researched near-exclusively in relation to the linguistic complexity of the learners' written products, while only limited attention has been paid to the online writing processes. In order to fill this gap, the present study focused on the effects of task demands…
Descriptors: Korean, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Writing Processes
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Zhu, Yu; Mark Shum, Shiu-Kee; Brian Tse, Shek-Kam; Liu, Jinghui Jack – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2016
A study is reported of the performance and attainment of 32 students from overseas studying elementary Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) in a Chinese university. With an AB-BA design, they were asked to use two forms of writing media to present two essays: one a word-processed essay entitled "My Favourite Female" and the other a…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Instruction, College Students, Foreign Students
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Hartley, James; Trueman, Mark; Betts, Lucy; Brodie, Lauren – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2006
The marks awarded to 130 second year undergraduate word processed essays were assessed in relation to their use of different typographic features. By and large most of these features had little effect on the essay grades. However, essays printed in 12-point type gained significantly higher marks (mean = 56.8) than essays printed in 10-point type…
Descriptors: Essays, Word Processing, Grades (Scholastic), Undergraduate Students
Biggs, John B. – 1988
Studies of text comprehension have suggested that readers focus on different levels of ideational unit while reading, thereby affecting the quality of their comprehension of the text. A study examined the viability of the deep-surface categorization with regard to essay-writing and the relation of different approaches to writing to the quality of…
Descriptors: Essays, Foreign Countries, Grade 11, Graduate Students