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Yoshimasa Ogawa – Journal of Response to Writing, 2021
The present study evaluated the effects of a combined form of written corrective feedback (WCF) on English as a foreign language (EFL) students' writing accuracy. The combined WCF consisted of unfocused error-code WCF and focused metalinguistic explanation. Different forms of WCF were administered to two groups of Japanese EFL students in two…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Writing Instruction, Accuracy
Tunaz, Mehmet; Muyan, Emrah; Muratoglu, Nursel – Online Submission, 2016
The purpose of this study was to investigate the categories of preposition errors made by EFL learners of elementary and intermediate proficiency levels by comparing the rate of preposition errors (addition, omission, substitution) to their total preposition uses in their essays, and by comparing the overall preposition usage of learners of both…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Error Patterns
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Szpara, Michelle Y.; Wylie, E. Caroline – Applied Linguistics, 2008
Differential performance results occur when a specific population subgroup achieves a passing rate which is significantly lower than that of the normative reference group. African Americans do less well, in general, on all types of assessments, including constructed-response tests. The present study examined the writing styles of African American…
Descriptors: African Americans, Reference Groups, Teacher Evaluation, National Standards
Stamper, John, Ed.; Pardos, Zachary, Ed.; Mavrikis, Manolis, Ed.; McLaren, Bruce M., Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2014
The 7th International Conference on Education Data Mining held on July 4th-7th, 2014, at the Institute of Education, London, UK is the leading international forum for high-quality research that mines large data sets in order to answer educational research questions that shed light on the learning process. These data sets may come from the traces…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Data Processing, Data Analysis, Data Collection