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Wang, Jing; Song, Baomei – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2023
To motivate learners to engage in writing courses and help to improve their writing performance, a mobile-game-based collaborative prewriting approach was proposed in this study. A quasi-experiment was implemented by recruiting two classes of non-English major students from a university in northeastern China. Class 1 learned to write under the…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Collaborative Writing, Prewriting, Foreign Countries
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Khezrlou, Sima – Language Awareness, 2023
Although the development of implicit grammatical knowledge is highly desirable, not all grammatical constructions could be learned implicitly. Therefore, one of the ultimate objectives of most English as Foreign Language (EFL) classrooms is to aid learners in developing their (automatic) explicit grammatical knowledge. Using progressively complex…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Fatima A. Y. Al-Inbari; Baleigh Q. Al-Wasy; Hassan S. Mahdi; Haifa Al-Nofaie – Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2023
This study explores the impact of mind mapping on the writing of English as a Foreign Language [EFL] among Saudi learners and the bilateral effects of mind mapping and other writing processes. Little research has been devoted to the effect of electronic mind mapping as a mediating tool. Despite the cyclical nature of writing processes, the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing Instruction
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Lan, Yu-Ju; Tam, Van Thi Thu – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2023
Using a smartphone is a very convenient way to learn languages in modern life. To understand the impact of the immersive environment created by a smartphone on essay writing in Chinese for second language learners, a study was conducted on 36 Vietnamese students in their first year at a university in Taiwan. This study adopted an experimental…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Teaching Methods, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices
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McDonough, Kim; De Vleeschauwer, Jindarat; Crawford, William J. – Language Teaching Research, 2019
Although second language (L2) collaborative writing research has demonstrated that texts composed collaboratively are more accurate than individually-written texts, few studies have explored whether collaborative prewriting yields similar benefits. This study investigated whether collaborative prewriting, i.e. interacting with peers during the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cooperative Learning, Prewriting, English (Second Language)
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Jelodar, Zahra Yahyazadeh; Farvardin, Mohammad Taghi – International Journal of Instruction, 2019
The importance of meaning-based teaching of the writing skill as an end in itself has mostly overlooked due to the common traditional grammar-based approaches used in writing instructions within the English as a foreign language (EFL) context. Therefore, this study aimed to examine the effects of collaborative meaning-focused and grammar-focused…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Grammar, Teaching Methods
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Chang, Ben; Lu, Fang-Chen – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2018
Social media can benefit English as a foreign language (EFL) learning, but learners need a deliberate approach to pursue deeper learning. To this end, the aim of this study was to design a prewriting activity using a mobile-based concept map to assess participants' writing performance in different aspects of writing. The designed prewriting…
Descriptors: Social Media, Prewriting, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Shafiee, Sajad; Koosha, Mansour; Afghar, Akbar – English Language Teaching, 2015
This study sought to explore the effect of teaching prewriting strategies through different methods of input delivery (i.e. conventional, web-based, and hybrid) on EFL learners' writing quantity. In its quasi-experimental study, the researchers recruited 98 available sophomores, and assigned them to three experimental groups (conventional,…
Descriptors: Prewriting, Writing Strategies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Cooks, Jamal; Sunseri, Anita – CATESOL Journal, 2014
Many students, especially English language learners (ELLs), struggle with writing expository texts. This study examined the impact of several writing strategies on ELLs' writing skills, including prewriting strategies and scaffolding strategies inherent in the Thinking Maps (TM) program. The purpose of the study was to see if ELLs were able to use…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency
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Mahnam, Lily; Nejadansari, Dariush – International Education Studies, 2012
This study aimed at investigating whether applying pre-writing strategies would affect the quality of L2 learners' compositions. Twenty three adult EFL students from Jahad-e-Daneshgahi English centre in Iran participated in this study. They were randomly assigned to control and experimental groups, including 11 and 12 participants in each. They…
Descriptors: Prewriting, Writing Strategies, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Piri, Faramarz; Barati, Hossein; Ketabi, Saeed – English Language Teaching, 2012
Previous studies on the effect of planning on language production have revealed that planning does have a positive effect on language performance in terms of fluency, complexity, and accuracy. The present study was an attempt to investigate the effects of pre-task, on-line, and both pre-task and on-line planning on fluency, accuracy, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Davies, Norman F.; Omberg, Margaret – 1986
The main tasks of the foreign language writing class should be to focus on the writing process and to help the students see their work as an act of communication with value in itself. An important means of encouraging good writing is the provision of good readers during the composition stage. A Swedish undergraduate course in English as a second…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Higher Education