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Shulin Yu; Yu Zhou; Emily Di Zhang – Language Teaching Research, 2025
While a plethora of research on second language (L2) writing instruction has focused on instructional approaches, teacher feedback and assessment practice, and student learning experiences, little research has examined issues regarding L2 writing curriculum. In particular, L2 writing curriculum discourse, as one important window to probe into the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Meiyang Hong; Gavin T. L. Brown – Curriculum Matters, 2024
Drawing data (N = 625) from the 2004 Assessment Tools for Teaching and Learning Version 4 database, this article explores how New Zealand Years 11-12 secondary students perceived the importance of learning to read and write in English and how those perceptions related to their reading attitudes and performance. More positive student perceptions of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Teachers, Grade 11
Nicole Schutte; Zhandi van Zyl – Perspectives in Education, 2023
In this conceptual paper, borne from the experiences of two academic literacy lecturers at the NWU, we ask, regarding elements of assessment, how we can sensibly adapt an intervention-style writing course in a post-COVID higher education context. We propose a course correction model, applicable to academic literacy writing courses, to address the…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Reflection, COVID-19, Pandemics
Jessica Mantei; Lisa Kervin – Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 2020
The ability to write is central to students' success at school and beyond, and key to this success is the design and implementation of classroom learning experiences. Teachers' writing lessons are informed by their beliefs about learning, their writing content knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge. This knowledge supports their…
Descriptors: Knowledge Base for Teaching, Writing Instruction, Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development
Klodjana Skendaj – Acta Educationis Generalis, 2024
Introduction: This research analyzes the importance of academic writing in Albania and suggests introducing it as a mandatory course in all fields of study. The study aims to identify students' perceptions of academic writing and the importance of clear structure and guidelines in academic writing templates. The research collected data through 253…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Higher Education, Writing Skills, Student Attitudes
Zhao, Huahui; Zhao, Beibei – Language Teaching Research, 2023
The current assessment in language classrooms prevailingly utilizes the criteria provided by instructors, regarding learners as passive recipients of assessment. The current study drew upon sustainable assessment and the community of practice to highlight the importance of involving learners in co-constructing the assessment criteria and argued…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Alignment (Education)
Moore, Tim; Ballantyne, Glenda; McIntosh, Craig – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2018
There is a consensus nowadays that the best way to develop students' academic literacy abilities is within the context of their studies in the disciplines, an approach known as 'curriculum embedding'. But despite the demonstrable value of this approach, surveys of the field in Australia suggest there has been only limited success over the years in…
Descriptors: Sociology, Writing Instruction, Academic Discourse, Intellectual Disciplines
Stagg Peterson, Shelley; Parr, Judy; Lindgren, Eva; Kaufman, Douglas – Curriculum Journal, 2018
In this article, researchers in the field of early writing identify underlying beliefs and values about writing and learning to write for the beginning years of formal schooling in four jurisdictions: the American state of Connecticut, New Zealand, the Canadian province of Ontario, and Sweden, as reflected in the respective curricula and standards…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Writing Instruction, Foreign Countries, Beginning Writing
Hosseini, Hossein; Chalak, Azizeh; Biria, Reza – International Journal of Instruction, 2019
The purpose of this study was twofold. First, it aimed to determine whether the application of backward design model has any significant effect on improving the writing ability of Iranian intermediate EFL learners. Second, the study sought to evaluate the superiority of backward design to conventional forward models in the improvement of the…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Writing Improvement, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
Katy E. Chapman, Editor; David E. Beard, Editor – Online Submission, 2025
As a discipline, international education focuses on developing an international consciousness. There are moral and ethical, as well as pragmatic, consequences of the development of an international consciousness: In terms of ethics and morality, international education inculcates positive attitudes towards international understanding and global…
Descriptors: International Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Professional Associations, Decision Making
Al-Ahdal, Arif Ahmed Mohammed Hassan; Alqasham, Fahd Hamad – TESOL International Journal, 2020
Research strategies over the last decade have predominantly focused on situated English learning in a conventional classroom setting. The students' use of strategy to enhance writing skills in online learning has received little attention. This study explores how the Situated Learning (SL) approach affects EFL Saudi student writing tasks in which…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Writing Instruction
Tse, Shek-kam; Hui, Sau-yan – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2016
An account is presented of how schools in Hong Kong have responded to major changes to the official writing curriculum, from the highly structured, whole-class approach which predominantly involved all students in the class painstakingly learning written script and modeling their writing on carefully chosen examples of traditional writing, to an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Instruction, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
Feltham, Mark; Krahn, Mary Anne – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2016
In this essay, we tell the story of how a team of English and nursing professors came together to develop curriculum for a mandatory first-semester writing course in the collaborative Bachelor of Science, Nursing (BScN) at Fanshawe College and Western University, both in London, Ontario. The discussion focuses on the implementation of the course…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Writing Instruction, Nursing Education, Foreign Countries
Akinyeye, Caroline; Plüddemann, Peter – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Reading Association of South Africa, 2016
The new language curriculum in South Africa recommends that extended writing be taught through a combination of text-based (or genre) and process approaches. This article reports on a study of the teaching and assessment of narrative writing in English as a first additional language (FAL) at a time of curriculum change. The setting is a Cape Flats…
Descriptors: Personal Narratives, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Liao, Hongjing; Li, Liwen – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2017
China's recent curriculum reform of English as a foreign language programs has shifted toward an integration of language abilities and transferable skills such as intercultural skills. This study is part of an internal evaluation project that examines the implementation and impact of a newly reformed writing course at one of China's top foreign…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Writing Instruction, Case Studies, English (Second Language)