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Using an e-Portfolio System to Improve the Academic Writing Performance of ESL Students
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Alshahrani, Ali; Windeatt, Scott – Research-publishing.net, 2012
Many intensive English language programmes that English second language (ESL) students enrol in adopt a process approach to writing, interpreting writing as a cognitive process that is highly private or individualistic (Atkinson, 2003), where writers use specific cognitive phases, such as pre-writing, drafting, and revising, to generate their…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Explaining Hong Kong Students' Response to Process Writing: An Exploration of Causes and Outcomes.
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Pennington, Martha C.; And Others – Journal of Second Language Writing, 1996
Evaluated English-as-a-Second-Language student reactions to the innovation of process writing in three multiple-lesson units. Results illustrated the complex pattern of cause-and-effect relationships existing between teachers' and students' attitudes and behaviors in the context of an innovation and demonstrated how an innovation can be…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Change Strategies, Context Effect, English (Second Language)
Innovation in the Composition Classroom: How ESL Students Respond.
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Brock, Mark N. – Prospect, 1996
Reports responses of Hong Kong students to a process-oriented approach to the teaching of composition in English-as-a-Second-Language classes. Reports students' and teachers' levels of adaptation to process writing and suggests several conditions that appear to support successful implementation of curricular innovation. (Eight references) (Adjunct…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Class Activities, Curriculum Development, English (Second Language)