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Direct linkXie, Qin; Lei, Yuqi – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2022
This research conducted diagnostic assessment of problems in first-year undergraduates' English academic papers and tracked potential sources of the problems to the writing process and strategy use. Data collected include 339 term papers and interviews with 17 students. The samples were manually error tagged and marked against a detailed…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Metacognition
Datchuk, Shawn M.; Kubina, Richard M. – Remedial and Special Education, 2013
Students with writing difficulties and learning disabilities struggle with many aspects of the writing process, including use of sentence-level skills. This literature review summarizes results from 19 published articles that used single-case or group-experimental and quasi-experimental designs to investigate effects of intervention on the…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Learning Disabilities
Research and Education Association, Piscataway, NJ. – 1992
Using straightforward, easy-to-understand language, this handbook of English provides hundreds of examples to illustrate in specific detail what is proper in all areas of English grammar, style, and writing. The handbook provides learning exercises at the end of every chapter for a thorough review of the concepts covered in the chapter. The first…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English, Grammar, Higher Education
Hurlow, Marcia L. – 1981
A study examined the relationship between students' linguistic insecurity (writing apprehension) and writing performance. College students in three remedial and two freshman composition classes were administered a test of linguistic insecurity that included pronunciation items and choices of hypercorrect, colloquial, and nonstandard versions of…
Descriptors: Anxiety, College Students, Difficulty Level, Higher Education
Download full textChafe, Wallace; Danielwicz, Jane – 1987
To find differences and similarities between spoken and written English, analyses were made of four specific kinds of language. Twenty adults, either graduate students or university professors, provided a sample of each of the following: conversations, lectures, informal letters, and academic papers. Conversations and lecture samples came from…
Descriptors: English, Higher Education, Language Research, Language Usage
Laing, Donald – 1985
To determine the syntactic maturity of eighth grade Canadian students' writing, all the students in four eighth grade classes were asked to write two compositions--one narrative and one argumentative--two weeks apart. The syntactic maturity level of the resulting 81 narrative compositions and 82 written arguments was compared with the syntactic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 8, Junior High Schools, Knowledge Level
