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Graham, Keith M.; Eslami, Zohreh – Reading Psychology, 2022
This study examines the role of transcription and ideation, the dimensions in the Simple View of Writing, as predictors of narrative and expository writing of English language learners (ELLs). Data were collected from sixth-grade primary school ELL students (N = 56) in Taiwan. Two writing samples, a narrative and an expository, were collected and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Expository Writing
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Lemke, Cristiane Ely; Weissheimer, Janaína; Mota, Natália Bezerra; de Souza Brentano, Luciana; Finger, Ingrid – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2021
The study investigates the effects of bilingualism and biliteracy on thought organisation, and syntactic complexity in the written production in a group of fifty 11-year-old children (M = 10.7) enrolled in 5th and 6th grades in a bilingual school in the south of Brazil. The children's home and community language is Portuguese, and they have been…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Grade 5, Grade 6, Bilingual Education
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Mora-González, Carlos Andrés; Anderson, Carl Edlund; Cuesta-Medina, Liliana – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2018
This qualitative study had the objective of analyzing the influence of graphic organizers on the development of written argumentative tasks in a group of sixth-grade Colombian L2 English learners. Learners are increasingly required to analyze information presented in languages other than their first critically to form reasoned opinions and solve…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Persuasive Discourse, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)