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Phil Hiver; Ali H. Al-Hoorie; Akira Murakami – Language Learning, 2025
In this paper, we report a longitudinal study of the effects of procedural task repetition on learners' task performance (i.e., syntactic complexity in relation to lexical complexity). We investigated how task repetition results in differences at the group and individual level across each task interval (T = 7). Intermediate-level Saudi learners of…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Second Language Learning, Writing (Composition), Longitudinal Studies
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Mahmoud Abdi Tabari; Xiaofei Lu; Yizhou Wang – Language Awareness, 2025
This study explored the relationship between task complexity, textual emotionality, and linguistic complexity in second language (L2) writing. Fifty-eight L2 English learners performed simple and complex versions of an argumentative writing task manipulated along with resource-­directing variables. The essays were first analysed for textual…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Agurtzane Azkarai; Asier Calzada – Classroom Discourse, 2024
Collaborative writing (CW) tasks require heightened Engagement with Language (EWL), as their learning potential has been shown to be mediated by the number of language-related episodes (LREs) or learners' patterns of interaction. Recent research on CW with young populations has investigated different dimensions of EWL, but a holistic view of the…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Steven Dale Acton – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study investigated how English language writers in a Chinese university were able to paraphrase following instruction with an online module. Participants were separated into two groups: Group A (Individuals) and Group B (Dyads). They were then trained and assessed in their ability to complete paraphrasing tasks with a pre and posttest.…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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María Luquin; María del Pilar García Mayo – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2025
This study investigated how the inclusion of model texts as a feedback technique affected students' task motivation and engagement in writing tasks. Adopting a longitudinal design, 60 English as a foreign language (EFL) children (aged 11-12) were divided into three groups: a treatment group, a long-term treatment group, and a control group. The…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Aitor Garcés-Manzanera – Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research, 2024
This study investigates the relationship between pausing and revision behaviors, as captured by pause bursts (P-bursts) and revision bursts (R-bursts), and text quality in digital L2 writing contexts among young English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners. The study involved 22 elementary school students aged 10-11 years, with English proficiency…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Revision (Written Composition)
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Judit Kormos – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
This article revisits the role of cognitive individual differences in creating synergies between second language (L2) writing and second language acquisition research that were proposed by Kormos (2012). It takes stock of the advances in research findings, in the past decade, on the role of working memory and language learning aptitude in L2…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Individual Differences
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Huan Zhang – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
Continuation Task, which closely links language inputs and outputs, is considered to be an effective method in foreign language learning. This paper is an empirical research that investigates the effects of interaction and alignment of Continuation Task in Chinese as a Second Language (CSL) writing. The participants are a total of 30 Cambodian…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Cambodians
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McDonough, Kim; Ammar, Ahlem; Sellami, Amal – Foreign Language Annals, 2022
This study explores the relationship between L2 French students' conversations during interactive writing tasks and their interaction mindset, which is their perception about peer interaction. Students (N = 51) in three, high-intermediate/low-advanced French L2 classes completed an interaction mindset questionnaire and two interactive writing…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, French, Writing Instruction
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Wandong Xu; Xinhua Zhu – Metacognition and Learning, 2024
Despite the widely recognized importance of metacognition in language learning, relatively few empirical studies have investigated the role of metacognitive strategies with a cross-linguistic perspective. Drawing on the mixed-method design combining questionnaire and interview data, this study systematically investigated the effects, the transfer…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Native Language, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Ching-Ni Hsieh – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2024
This study examined the role of writing task types and L2 reading proficiency on young English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' writing performances. The participants were 185 students (Grades 7 and 8) from Denmark, Finland, and the Netherlands. The students responded to a descriptive and an email writing tasks that assessed their writing…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Task Analysis, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Chengchen Li – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2025
This study investigates task-specific emotions, examining how they arise and impact performance in a second language writing task through the lens of control-value theory and a positive psychology (PP) perspective. Participants were 206 secondary English-as-a-foreign-language learners from rural China. They completed an English argumentative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Xueping Li; Yiru Wang – Language Testing in Asia, 2024
This study examines how the genre of input text influences Chinese young EFL learners' performance on continuation tasks. Participants were 30 students in Grade 9 and repeated-measures design was adopted to compare their performance on narrative and argumentative continuation tasks, in terms of writing quality, CAF indicators as well as alignment.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Task Analysis
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Tomoko Oyama; Hyun-Sook Kang – Language Awareness, 2024
The present study examined the relative effects of discourse-based and sentence-level grammar instruction on the learning of English present perfect in academic writing, using a sequential explanatory mixed-methods design. Participants were 37 multilingual graduate students enrolled in different sections of an ESL-writing course at a U.S.…
Descriptors: Grammar, Writing Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Ning Fan; Yingying Ma – SAGE Open, 2024
Researchers have been investigating the effects of different planning conditions on learners' second language (L2) writing performance. However, whether such effects differ regarding specific planning conditions and task complexity has remained underexplored. This study examined the effects of pre-task planning (PTP) versus unpressured online…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Syntax
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