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Asaro-Saddler, Kristie; Muir-Knox, Haley; Meredith, Holly – Exceptionality, 2018
Many adolescents, particularly adolescents with disabilities, have difficulty with literacy tasks such as reading and writing. Yet research has found that when students with disabilities receive appropriate instruction, they typically are able to improve their overall writing outcomes. This study explored the effectiveness of a summary writing…
Descriptors: Literacy, Writing Strategies, Adolescents, Disabilities
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Daniel, Frances; Gaze, Catherine M.; Braasch, Jason L. G. – Teaching of Psychology, 2015
We examined how writing cover letters to the instructor influenced final papers in research methods courses. After receiving instructor feedback on drafts of each section of an American Psychological Association style research paper throughout the semester, students in two classes wrote cover letters to the instructor explaining how the instructor…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Methods Courses, Feedback (Response), Writing Improvement
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Nguyen, Le Thi Cam – TESOL Journal, 2015
This article reports on a study which examined the effectiveness of a 7-minute writing technique whereby students regularly wrote as much as they could in 7 minutes three times a week for a period of 10 weeks. The study was conducted with four classes of first-year and third-year students at a university in Vietnam. The study looked at the…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, Writing Improvement, Writing Strategies, Timed Tests
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Hung, Bui Phu; Van, Le Thi – International Journal of Instruction, 2018
Pre-writing stage has been considered very significant as it enhances writing performance in that learners can have discussions with the teacher and/or their peers. They can also outline and organize their ideas individually to prepare themselves for writing. This study investigated the effects of using pictures and interactions in the pre-writing…
Descriptors: Prewriting, Writing Strategies, Visual Aids, Photography
Siu, Fiona Kwai-peng – Online Submission, 2016
This study aims to explore the effectiveness of a paradigm to teach native Cantonese-speaking university students the hierarchical structure of expository prose to improve paragraph coherence. Most of the diagnostic argumentative essays the participants in this study wrote in the course were incoherent, failing to meet readers' expectation of…
Descriptors: Rhetorical Invention, Paragraph Composition, Writing Strategies, Writing Skills
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Amoush, Kholoud Hussein – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
The study aimed at identifying the impact of employing brainstorming strategy on improving writing performance of English Major Students at Balqa Applied University in Jordan. The sample of the study which consisted of 80 male and female university students was distributed into two groups; experimental (taught by brainstorming strategy) and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Brainstorming, Writing Improvement, Writing Instruction
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Mitchell, Rebekkah J.; Morrison, Timothy G.; Feinauer, Erika; Wilcox, Brad; Black, Sharon – Reading Psychology, 2016
A quasi-experimental study examined some effects of cross-age tutoring on fourth grade tutors' and second grade tutees' ability to spell accurately and correct errors on their own rough drafts. Half of the participating tutors were trained in tutoring skills; half were not. All participants were given pre- and post-assessments. On dictated writing…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Grade 4, Grade 2, Spelling
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Boyle, Joseph R.; Hindman, Annemarie H. – Middle Grades Research Journal, 2015
The purpose of this exploratory study was to develop and test a strategy to support middle grade students' persuasive writing skills. The sample included 52 eighth-grade students who were either proficient or struggling writers. The students were randomly assigned to either receive training on a graphic organizer designed to scaffold effective…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Persuasive Discourse, Writing Achievement
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Shafiee, Sajad; Koosha, Mansour; Afghar, Akbar – English Language Teaching, 2015
This study sought to explore the effect of teaching prewriting strategies through different methods of input delivery (i.e. conventional, web-based, and hybrid) on EFL learners' writing quantity. In its quasi-experimental study, the researchers recruited 98 available sophomores, and assigned them to three experimental groups (conventional,…
Descriptors: Prewriting, Writing Strategies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Tahriri, Abdorreza; Sabet, Masoud Khalili; Aeineh, Afrouz – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2014
The present study sought to investigate the effect of portfolio assessment on idiom competence of Iranian EFL learners. For the purpose of this study, 30 students from upper-intermediate level of English proficiency took part in this study. They were chosen through convenience sampling from a language institute in Rasht, Iran. They were randomly…
Descriptors: Portfolio Assessment, Language Patterns, Writing Skills, Writing Strategies
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Gulley, Beth – Journal of Developmental Education, 2012
Many writing teachers provide feedback to their students through writing conferences; however, the existing literature indicates teachers may unintentionally harm their weaker students by using this strategy. To better understand the effect of the writing conference on developmental writing students, the researcher created a mixed design ANCOVA to…
Descriptors: Special Needs Students, Feedback (Response), Writing Instruction, Statistical Significance
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Akdal, Deniz; Sahin, Ayfer – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2014
Problem Statement: The aim of the first five years of primary school is to teach and help the students develop basic skills as stated in the Primary School Language Program and Guide. Creative thinking and intertextual reading are among these skills, and it is important to give these to the students during language courses. Purpose of Study: The…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Creative Writing
Elashri, Ismail Ibrahim Elshirbini Abdel Fattah – Online Submission, 2013
This study aimed at developing some writing skills for second year secondary stage students through the direct teacher feedback strategy. Hence, the problem of the study was stated in the following statement: "The students at Al Azhar secondary schools are not good at writing. As a result their writing skills are weak." They need to be…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Program Effectiveness, Writing Skills, Scoring Rubrics
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Shaw, Donita Massengill – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2011
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of two handwriting approaches, D'Nealian and Sunform, on kindergartners' letter formations. Forty-one participants received D'Nealian handwriting instruction as the control group; 133 kindergartners were instructed in Sunform as the experimental approach. Pre-post tests at the beginning and end…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Handwriting, Alphabets, Orthographic Symbols
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Mahnam, Lily; Nejadansari, Dariush – International Education Studies, 2012
This study aimed at investigating whether applying pre-writing strategies would affect the quality of L2 learners' compositions. Twenty three adult EFL students from Jahad-e-Daneshgahi English centre in Iran participated in this study. They were randomly assigned to control and experimental groups, including 11 and 12 participants in each. They…
Descriptors: Prewriting, Writing Strategies, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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