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The Impact of Scaffolding Mechanisms on EFL Learners' Individual and Socially Shared Metacognition in Writing
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Jafarigohar, Manoochehr; Mortazavi, Mahboobeh – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2017
This study investigated the impact of structuring and problematizing scaffolding mechanisms on 240 Iranian English as a foreign language learners' individual and socially shared metacognition in writing skills. The study also sought to find out whether the learners' proficiency level moderated the effect of the scaffolding mechanisms on…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Metacognition, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
A Close Investigation into Source Use in Integrated Second Language Writing Tasks
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Plakans, Lia; Gebril, Atta – Assessing Writing, 2012
An increasing number of writing programs and assessments are employing writing-from-sources tasks in which reading and writing are integrated. The integration of reading and writing in such contexts raises a number of questions with regard to writers' use of sources in their writing, the functions these sources serve, and how proficiency affects…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Protocol Analysis, Writing Skills, Reading
Researching Aptitude in a Process-Based Approach to Foreign Language Writing Instruction
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Zare-ee, Abbas; Fatemeh Mahdavi – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
In the study reported here, we explored writing processes employed by 70 undergraduate learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) through questionnaires and think-aloud protocols. Then we looked for possible differences in the writing processes employed by high- and low-aptitude learners. We observed that learners with higher aptitude scores…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Writing Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Incorporating Corpus Technology to Facilitate Learning of English Collocations in a Thai University EFL Writing Course
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Chatpunnarangsee, Kwanjira – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study is to explore ways of incorporating web-based concordancers for the purpose of teaching English collocations. A mixed-methods design utilizing a case study strategy was employed to uncover four specific dimensions of corpus use by twenty-four students in two classroom sections of a writing course at a university in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computational Linguistics, Phrase Structure, Worksheets
Developing Students as Writers through Collaboration
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Humphris, Rebecca – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2010
Revision is recognised as a key and complex element of the writing process. Despite this, research shows that students find it difficult effectively to revise their own writing due to a lack of metacognitive awareness and understanding of the processes they undertake when writing. The first part of this inquiry studies nine students' understanding…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Collaborative Writing, Teaching Methods, Protocol Analysis
Struggling Readers in Urban High Schools: Evaluating the Impact of Professional Development in Literacy
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Muñoz, Marco A.; Guskey, Thomas R.; Aberli, Jennifer R. – Planning and Changing, 2009
The objective of this study was to determine the effectiveness of a district-wide professional development effort based on a modified Ramp-Up Program, designed to help high school teachers improve the reading skills of their students. Ramp-Up is a two-year course that seeks to accelerate the learning progress of entering high school students who…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Urban Schools, High School Students, Faculty Development