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Joseph Siegel – ELT Journal, 2024
Taking notes while listening not only aids comprehension and concentration in the moment but also creates an external storage repository of information for later use. As the number of students taking content courses in their L2 in English medium instruction contexts grows, L2 notetaking abilities are beginning to receive much-needed pedagogic and…
Descriptors: Notetaking, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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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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Vasfiye Geçkin; Ebru Kiziltas; Çagatay Çinar – Journal of Educational Technology and Online Learning, 2023
The quality of writing in a second language (L2) is one of the indicators of the level of proficiency for many college students to be eligible for departmental studies. Although certain software programs, such as Intelligent Essay Assessor or IntelliMetric, have been introduced to evaluate second-language writing quality, an overall assessment of…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency
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Ounissi, Amine; Romly, Raihana; Tajuddin, Azza Jauhar Ahmad; Hasan, Md. Kamrul – MEXTESOL Journal, 2023
The prevalence of COVID-19 worldwide and the length of the global lockdown period deeply affected students' academic study. This unexpected scenario posed a challenge to a considerable number of academic institutions around the world to formally adopt a new education system based on e-learning platforms. Therefore, this study aims to investigate…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Electronic Learning, Undergraduate Students
George Clinton Denison – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Enabling learners to successfully use their second language (L2) in meaningful ways is a critical goal of instruction. Ultimately, most learners want to meet the L2 demands of the contexts in which they will use the language. To accomplish this, learners must develop linguistic knowledge and apply it in a manner that is contextually appropriate…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Soohye Yeom – ProQuest LLC, 2023
With the wide introduction of English-medium instruction (EMI) to higher education institutions throughout East Asian countries, many East Asian universities are using English proficiency tests that were not originally designed for this context to make admissions and placement decisions. To support the use of these tests in this new EMI context,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Writing Tests
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Chang, Chuan-Chi; Wei, Li-Wei – English Language Teaching, 2022
Although the behavior and impacts of instructor reflection in writing classes have been extensively studied over the past few decades, a significant proportion of the work has concentrated on students' attitudes and utilization of all such responses, as opposed to teachers' perspectives, self-assessments, and actual text comments given. Research…
Descriptors: Essays, Writing Assignments, Teacher Attitudes, English (Second Language)
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Xu, Jun – L2 Journal, 2022
While the use of machine translation (MT) in the classroom has been explored from various perspectives, the relationship between language proficiency and MT use regarding learners' behaviors and beliefs remains unclear in the research literature. This study focused on four Japanese learners with various language proficiencies from a fourth-year…
Descriptors: Translation, Japanese, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning
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Zijlmans, Lidy; van Oostendorp, Marc; van Hout, Roeland – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2020
This article reports on the academic performance and experiences of non-native university students, specifically German students in a Dutch academic environment. These students have a substantial dropout rate. In an earlier study, we found correlations between results on language tests and study results. In this study, we used semi-structured…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Native Language, Indo European Languages, German
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Bou Ayash, Nancy – Composition Forum, 2020
This article affords insights into the interdependence between writing and critical translation to inform implementations of antiracist and translingual writing pedagogies. Promoting linguistic and social justice for multilingual writers, it presents a writing assignment design that focuses on critical translation across asymmetrical power…
Descriptors: Translation, Multilingualism, Correlation, Writing (Composition)
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Li, Zhi; Hegelheimer, Volker – Language Learning & Technology, 2013
In this paper, we report on the development and implementation of a web-based mobile application, "Grammar Clinic," for an ESL writing class. Drawing on insights from the interactionist approach to Second Language Acquisition (SLA), the Noticing Hypothesis, and mobile-assisted language learning (MALL), "Grammar Clinic" was…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Grammar, Editing, English (Second Language)
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Schaeffer-Lacroix, Eva – Language Awareness, 2016
Johns reports in his text "Kibbitzing one-to-ones" (1997) that corpus-informed metatalk with a foreign language expert helps apprentice writers to make progress in independent text revision. Expecting this progress to be based on the development of expert-like ways to observe language features, I integrated Johns' so-called kibbitzing…
Descriptors: German, Form Classes (Languages), Qualitative Research, Statistical Analysis
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Liu, Pei-Lin – Computers & Education, 2011
This study aims to examine the effect of using computerized concept maps during the pre-writing phase on learners' writing performance. The research questions were: (1) What are the impacts of different computerized concept mapping treatments (no-mapping, individual-mapping, and cooperative-mapping) on writing performance for learners of different…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Writing Assignments, Cooperative Learning, College Freshmen
Al-Serhani, Wafa Fahed – Online Submission, 2007
This study investigated the effect of the portfolio assessment strategy to teach and assess writing performance of EFL third year students enrolled at the 3rd Secondary School, Skaka (Al-Jouf region). The purpose of the study was to determine whether a specific portfolio assessment model was effective in helping the students to improve their…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Writing Skills, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning