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Pong-ampai Kongcharoen; Jiraporn Dhanarattigannon; Tirote Thongnuan – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2024
This study aimed to investigate the lexical competence of English-major EFL students. The learner corpus comprised 552 pieces of writing by sophomore English majors during five academic years between 2017 and 2021, containing 190,506words in total. The results from Vocab Profile program showed that these students used words contained in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English Departments, Writing Assignments, Majors (Students)
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Khabbazbashi, Nahal; Chan, Sathena; Clark, Tony – ELT Journal, 2023
The increasing use of digital educational technologies in higher education (HE) means that the nature of communication may be shifting. Assessments of English for academic purposes (EAP) need to be reconceptualized accordingly to reflect the new and complex ways in which language is used in HE. With a view to inform EAP assessments, our study set…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Higher Education
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Zhang, Ruofei; Zou, Di – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
Technology-enhanced peer feedback (TEPF) activity has been increasingly investigated in L2 writing education. Researchers have conducted many review and meta-analysis studies on related research and identified factors influencing the activity effectiveness. However, few reviews have been conducted based on the activity theory that may clarify…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Second Language Learning, Writing Assignments
RP Group, 2019
With support from the California Community College Chancellor's Office, the MMAP Research Team, a team of The Research and Planning Group for California Community Colleges (RP Group) conducted a literature review on various assessment measures used for English as a Second Language (ESL) programs to explore effective assessment methods including…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
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Fessakis, Georgios; Zoumpatianou, Maria – Themes in Science and Technology Education, 2012
This paper is a literature review report concerning educational uses of Wikipedia in the first 10 years of its existence. The aim of the work is the tracing and the presentation of published and validated educational applications of Wikipedia in a manner that could inform learning design by teachers or researchers. For the review, 24 scientific…
Descriptors: Encyclopedias, Collaborative Writing, Electronic Publishing, Literature Reviews
Littlewood, William – 1992
A discussion of the task-based approach to second language learning looks at different interpretations of "task" and defines it in terms of two basic dimensions: (1) degree of learner involvement in purposeful work, and (2) a continuum from focus on linguistic form to focus on message. It is proposed that these dimensions can be understood better…
Descriptors: Assignments, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Processes