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Direct linkTrapman, Mirjam; van Gelderen, Amos; van Schooten, Erik; Hulstijn, Jan – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
In a longitudinal design, 51 low-achieving adolescents' development in writing proficiency from Grades 7 to 9 was measured. There were 25 native-Dutch and 26 language-minority students. In addition, the roles of (1) linguistic knowledge, (2) metacognitive knowledge, and (3) linguistic fluency in predicting both the level and development of writing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Adolescents, Writing Skills
Trapman, Mirjam; van Gelderen, Amos; van Steensel, Roel; van Schooten, Erik; Hulstijn, Jan – Journal of Research in Reading, 2014
In this study we investigate the role of linguistic knowledge, fluency and meta-cognitive knowledge in Dutch reading comprehension of monolingual and bilingual adolescent academic low achievers in the Netherlands. Results show that these components are substantially associated with reading comprehension. However, their role appears to be different…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Indo European Languages, Reading Comprehension
Schoonen, Rob; van Gelderen, Amos; Stoel, Reinoud D.; Hulstijn, Jan; de Glopper, Kees – Language Learning, 2011
This longitudinal study investigates the development of writing proficiency in English as a foreign language (EFL), in contrast to the development of first language (L1) writing proficiency in Dutch L1, in a sample of almost 400 secondary school students in the Netherlands. Students performed several writing tasks in both languages in three…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Second Language Learning, Metacognition, Foreign Countries
van Gelderen, Amos; Oostdam, Ron; van Schooten, Erik – Language Learning, 2011
We report a classroom experiment directed at increasing lexical fluency in writing. Participants were 107 Dutch students in bilingual (EFL) education (Grades 10 and 11). According to current theories of writing such fluency allows writers to devote more attention to higher order aspects of text production, such as idea generation, selection and…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Control Groups, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedSnellings, Patrick; van Gelderen, Amos; de Glopper, Kees – Language Learning, 2002
Examines feasibility of an experimental computerized training for fluent lexical retrieval in the second language in a classroom setting, applying techniques previously restricted to laboratory use. Results on both a lexical decision task and written lexical retrieval task show students in each condition have higher accuracy scores and superior…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Task Analysis
Download full textvan Gelderen, Amos – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2006
The teaching of grammar is discussed from an instrumental point of view: what beneficial effects does such teaching have for students' language abilities (especially writing)? Two ways of approaching grammar teaching are confronted with each other: the learning of explicit rules and meta-linguistic knowledge about language on one hand and learning…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Grammar, Linguistics, Writing Ability
