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Osburne, Andrea G.; Mulling, Sylvia – Issues in Applied Linguistics, 1994
Presents a survey of English-as-a-Second-Language students (n=142) for their preferences of writing prompt on essay tests and for other factors relating to their choices such as perceived difficulty of a topic. Findings reveal that these students, while not alert to potentially helpful syntactic clues in prompts, are probably using appropriate…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, College Students, Cues, English (Second Language)