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Višnja Pavicic Takac – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
Inspired by Rebecca Oxford's thought-provoking reflections on language learning strategies, and particularly her orchestra metaphor on how the strategies work together, I conducted a study that seeks to understand how non-native writers employ, configure, sequence and combine individual writing strategies when creating a text in the target…
Descriptors: Writing Strategies, Collaborative Writing, Persuasive Discourse, Essays
Gui Wang; Hui Wang; Li Wang – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2025
This study investigates the developmental trajectory of progressive construction among Chinese and Japanese EFL learners through a usage-based approach. A total of 600 written essays, produced by EFL learners from China and Japan with proficiency levels ranging from elementary to upper-intermediate, were analyzed. The findings reveal that advanced…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Li Bai; Qiuxian Chen – TESL-EJ, 2024
The past few decades have foregrounded cooperative learning and its pedagogical implications for students' academic, psychological, and social gains, particularly, in the Western context. These gains, nonetheless, were sometimes questioned and doubted in the Confucian Heritage Culture (CHC) countries such as China. This study adopts Norton's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Collaborative Writing, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Ju Zhan; Qiyu Sun; Lawrence Jun Zhang – Language Teaching Research, 2024
The present study investigated the potential of writing in English as a foreign language (EFL) for language learning by manipulating cognitive task complexity based on related models and hypotheses. English essays written by 59 Chinese postgraduate EFL students from different subject areas were analysed with reference to writing complexity,…
Descriptors: Syntax, Writing (Composition), Difficulty Level, Vocabulary
Faeze Safari; Alireza Ahmadi – Language Learning Journal, 2025
Integrated writing tasks, which require students to incorporate information from multiple sources into their writing, are gaining attention in language assessment and writing instruction due to their alignment with the expectations of academic and professional writing. Understanding what aspects of integrated tasks are perceived as challenging by…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing Assignments, Second Language Learning, Information Sources
Enesi, Miranda; Trifoni, Anisa – Athens Journal of Education, 2023
One of the most important elements of English language is the writing skill. It is a competence which human beings are not born with; on the contrary, it is learnt with practice and experience. In this respect, the focus must be on the hard work of English instructors, who deal painstakingly with the four skills, emphasizing writing, by means of…
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, College Freshmen
Jantra Prompan; Chatraporn Piamsai – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2024
Conceptualized in formative assessment and sociocognitive theory, peer feedback and self-regulated learning (SRL) instruction were used in this mixed-method study to investigate their effects on Thai EFL university students' essay writing ability and their self-regulation. During the 12-week online instruction period, 35 third-year students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Feedback (Response), Peer Evaluation, English (Second Language)
Yves Bestgen – Applied Linguistics, 2024
Measuring lexical diversity in texts that have different lengths is problematic because length has a significant effect on the number of types a text contains, thus hampering any comparison. Treffers-Daller et al. (2018) recommended a simple solution, namely counting the number of types in a section of a given length that was extracted from the…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Second Language Learning, Essays, Writing Evaluation
Kang, Joohoon – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2022
This study aimed to explore adolescent second language (L2) writers' composition across media (text-based writing and digital multimodal composing). The goal was to investigate how and under what conditions these writers used semiotic resources when they engaged in both text-based writing and digital multimodal composing. Grounded in the concept…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Secondary School Students, Second Language Learning
Özdemir, Osman; Karafil, Burcu – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2023
The purpose of this study was to explore the topic selection tendencies of university students among a given topic list and to reveal what reasons students had in deciding on the topic to write about. The study was designed as a case study. 37 students studying at a state university in Konya Province, Turkey were determined as a study group. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Essays, Writing (Composition)
Xiaosheng Zhou; Ying Soon Goh – International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning, 2025
This study introduces a mobile-assisted Seamless Chinese Vocabulary Learning (SCVL) framework and examines its efficacy through the implementation of a "sentence-paragraph-essay" artifact-making writing process designed to enhance vocabulary growth among tertiary-level students. Employing a design-based research methodology, the study…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Telecommunications
Lucia Fraga-Viñas; Maria Bobadilla-Pérez – MEXTESOL Journal, 2025
The upsurge of ICT media and hybrid modalities for learning that stemmed from the world health crisis seem to be destined to stay. In this new paradigm, self-assessment processes have acquired an even more relevant role in the teaching learning process than they already had. Due to the myriad of academic online resources and information at their…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Evaluation Methods, Scoring Rubrics
Umbreen Tariq – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2025
Purpose: This study aims to explore computer-assisted language learning (CALL) activities to improve the English essay writing of Pakistani university students. It highlights the role of CALL in the language proficiency model cognitive academic language proficiency (CALP), which can enable second language learners to engage in more critical…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Afrooz Dorri; Hossein Heidari Tabrizi; Ahmadreza Lotfi – International Journal of Language Testing, 2025
The impact of self- and peer-assessment strategies (assessment as learning) on the development of writing skill of EFL learners is a research area requiring more research studies. The present study aimed to investigate the impact of language assessment literacy enhancement (LALE) on Iranian high school English as Foreign Language (EFL) students'…
Descriptors: High School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Hyun-Ju Kim; Stewart Gray; Christopher Lange – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
As student creativity is increasingly emphasized in English as a Foreign Language education, it is necessary to consider instructional techniques to encourage it. This study examines the effectiveness of two instructional techniques on creative writing performance of English as a Foreign Language students in a South Korean university. These…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Brainstorming, Teaching Methods, Essays