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Download full textAlm, Antonie; Watanabe, Yuki – Research-publishing.net, 2021
This short paper reports on the preliminary findings of a study into the use of Online Translators (OTs) by university language students. Students of Chinese, French, German, Japanese, and Spanish and their teachers responded to comparative surveys on their respective use and evaluation of OTs for L2 writing in formal language learning contexts.…
Descriptors: Translation, Computational Linguistics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Kennedy, Olivia – Research-publishing.net, 2021
This article explores how 40 first-year students in a compulsory English for Academic Purposes (EAP) course undertook written tasks during a semester suddenly undertaken online. The university in Japan described here provided on-demand lessons via the Learning Management System (LMS) during the first COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. Students prepared…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing Instruction, English for Academic Purposes
Rossini, Carol – 2001
The word "service" certainly conjures some undesirable connotations, and theorists such as Nancy Grimm propose that writing centers need to shed their service labels to attain respectability. In this paper, the writing center director of a small liberal arts college shares her perspective and juxtaposes that with Grimm's position that…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Higher Education, Proofreading, Small Colleges
Conely, James – 1992
Since students enter college with a basic knowledge of the mechanics of writing, including grammar, spelling, and punctuation, most student writing mistakes amount to a failure to see what they have actually written. Thus, instructors must help students to apply knowledge they already have and to see their own errors through careful proofreading.…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Error Correction, Higher Education, Peer Evaluation
DeNight, Shawn – 1992
The purpose of this study was to examine whether proofreading a text aloud was more effective than silent proofreading in helping Black English Vernacular (BEV) speaking students to locate and correct dialect features in writing. The study was divided into two parts. In the first part, 29 11th grade BEV-speakers edited three teacher-produced…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Error Correction, Grade 11, High Schools
Szul, Linda; Berry, Louis – 1996
As the use of computers has become more common in society, human engineering and ergonomics have lagged behind the sciences which developed the equipment. Some research has been done in the past on the effects of screen colors on computer use efficiency, but results were inconclusive. This paper describes a study of the impact of screen color…
Descriptors: Color, Color Planning, Design Preferences, Higher Education
