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Durinova, Marina A. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Writing in English as a second or additional language has become an important skill that can be applied in many areas of human activity. As we become a society within which written text is an important instrument that helps create new ideas, services, and products, English text is often used as a preferred mode of communication. Traditionally…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Creative Writing
Priscila Jovazino Bastos Medrado Costa – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of my dissertation study was to explore the experiences and perceptions of English language instructors about the use of multimodal digital technologies in the teaching of academic writing. Writing academically in English as a second language (L2) is complex and multilayered for international students, and multimodal digital literacy…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English for Academic Purposes, Writing Instruction
Bilotta, Juliane – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation considers how English for Academic Purposes (EAP) instructors can reimagine notions of academic writing by exploiting multimodal texts in ways that invite students' fuller language repertoires into the classroom. Using ethnographic data collected during the Spring 2022 semester of a college EAP class, this study argues that a…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Adam Pfau – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This experimental study, and partial replication of Sun and Hu (2020), examined how and to what extent direct (i.e., hands-on corpus use) or indirect (i.e., hands-off corpus use) online data-driven learning (DDL) modules were able to assist Chinese writers from an English as a foreign language (EFL) context in using more appropriate hedging (i.e.,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English for Academic Purposes
Terrence Tianzhi Zhang – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Multilingual college students often struggle with writing and revising for academic purposes. This dissertation explored the effectiveness of a Concept-Based Language Instruction (C-BLI) approach to teaching revision processes to college-level multilingual writers. Although a significant body of research exists on effective feedback on…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing Instruction
Miriam Ama Bima Akoto – ProQuest LLC, 2021
In recent decades, a plethora of empirical work has indicated that collaborative writing (CW) affords more opportunities for collective scaffolding and language negotiation (Li & Kim, 2016; Li & Zhu, 2013; Storch, 2019) and promotes the development of second language (L2) writing skills (Bikowski &Vithanage, 2016; Storch, 2013; Strobl,…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Kyounghye Kate Park – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This doctoral dissertation explores diverse facets of online research and comprehension among college students with English as a second or foreign language (L2 students). The research involves three distinct investigations within this overarching theme. Firstly, the study delves into the online reading and writing practices employed by Korean L2…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Protocol Analysis, Korean
Fields, R. Stacy – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Writing is a skill that has increased in significance for both researchers and classroom teachers due to changes in recent standards. Currently, many high school English Language Learners (ELLs) are struggling to master this priority skill. A strategy that has been shown to be effective for adolescent writers is Self-Regulated Strategy Development…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English Language Learners
Caras, Allison Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2017
There is an ongoing debate as to whether written corrective feedback (WCF) is effective for the improvement of adult second language (L2) writers' accuracy. Ever since Truscott (1996, 1999) began arguing against grammar correction in L2 writing courses, researchers have challenged his position (i.e. below). Although most of these studies show WCF…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Spanish, Accuracy
Ayala Rivera, Tanya Isis – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Globalization, the Internet, television, and other technological media are all factors that are greatly influencing English learning. Knowing English is no longer considered a luxury, it is even said that whoever does not speak that language would be in a clear situation of disadvantage. Many applications are currently available for users in…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Zhang, Cui – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Recently, the number of English as a second language (ESL) students who study in the United States has rapidly increased. This increase poses serious challenges for the U.S. universities in which the students are enrolled as well as for the students themselves. One of the challenges the students face is a lack of training in one type of writing…
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, English for Academic Purposes
Graham, Leah Sharice – ProQuest LLC, 2006
English for Academic Purposes literature is often criticized for its very functional interpretation of language (e.g. Benesch, 2001) which ignores the intellectual, cultural, and social side of learning in an attempt to appear "neutral." Furthermore, writing is the EAP skill area which seems to provide students with the most difficulty.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction