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Estela Ene; Thomas A. Upton – CALICO Journal, 2024
Teacher-moderated online chats are a common option for conducting writing conferences with students. The efficacy of chat sessions is impacted by the expectations for and structure of these sessions. This corpus-based study used a move analysis to determine the purposes and organization of 129 chats between 3 experienced teachers and 106 students…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Computer Mediated Communication, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Ana Llinares; Tarja Nikula – Language and Education, 2024
This article presents findings from an empirical study in which we investigated Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) students' linguistic resources in the L2 (English) to convey different Cognitive Discourse Functions (Dalton-Puffer 2013; 2016)--"Describe, Compare (Categorize), Report, Evaluate" and "Explore"--in two…
Descriptors: Content and Language Integrated Learning, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
Musk, Nigel – Classroom Discourse, 2022
This study applies multimodal conversation analysis to examine how pupils of L2 English in Sweden make use of online translation tools (OTTs), i.e. bilingual dictionaries and Google Translate, in a range of digital collaborative writing tasks. The collection of sequences where pupils use OTTs comes from 31 hours of video-recorded data from four…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Yeh, Shiou-Wen; Chen, Cheng-Ting – Language Education & Assessment, 2019
Based on the advantages of collaborative writing and the advanced development of mobile technology, this study investigated the communication process and attitudes of a group of college students toward collaborative writing using a "Google Docs" app on an English writing course. Online collaborative writing assignments were assigned by…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Collaborative Writing
Pham, Duc Huu – International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments, 2019
To help EFL learners realize the use of nominals and clauses in practicing productive skills of academic writing in English writing tests, experiments have been exploited using the tasks similar to those of internet-based test of English as a foreign language to determine the nominal and clause level information during sentence and paragraph…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Writing Skills, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Elgort, Irina – Language Learning & Technology, 2017
This study investigates differences in the language and discourse characteristics of course blogs and traditional academic submissions produced in English by native (L1) and advanced second language (L2) writers. One hundred and fifty-two texts generated by 38 graduate students within the context of the same Master's level course were analysed…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Student Journals, Electronic Journals, Writing Assignments
Kheradmand Saadi, Zahra – Online Submission, 2016
For Vygotsky, language is a cultural-psychological concept emerged from social interactions and is applied for higher cognitive functions such as thinking, meaning making, and knowledge construction. In this study, a sociocultural perspective was applied to analyze the language produced by 40 sophomore Iranian EFL learners during dialogic…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Discourse Analysis, Undergraduate Students, Classification
Siew Mei, Wu – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2013
This paper explores the expression of certainty in a set of high- and low-rated Geography argumentative essays. Using one aspect of Hunston's (1989, 2000) concept of the evaluation of status, the paper compares the statement types used to construe the writer's expression of certainty in the construction of arguments. Drawing on the framework,…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Essays, Undergraduate Students, Persuasive Discourse
Walls, Laura – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study investigates the dynamics in the Spanish classroom between heritage language learner (HLL) dyads, second language learner (L2L) dyads, and mixed HLL-L2L dyads. Specifically, it examines oral, written and embodied discourse that informs our understanding of how learners attend to language. Analysis for this dissertation examined…
Descriptors: Heritage Education, Second Language Learning, Discourse Analysis, Video Technology
Woodfield, Helen – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2010
The present study investigates the role of concurrent and retrospective verbal report in exploring the cognitive processes of six pairs of advanced ESL learners engaged on a written discourse completion task eliciting status-unequal requests in English. Qualitative analysis of the concurrent data indicate that (i) social contextual aspects of the…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Processing
Woodfield, Helen; Economidou-Kogetsidis, Maria – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2010
This paper examines the status-unequal requests of 89 advanced mixed-L1 learners and 87 British English native speakers elicited by a written discourse completion task. Significant differences were observed in all three dimensions analysed: internal and external modification, and perspective. The data demonstrate learners' overuse of zero marking…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Native Speakers, Pragmatics, College Students
Nguyen, Hanh Thi; Kellogg, Guy – Modern Language Journal, 2010
This article examines how adult learners were socialized by one another in the context of content materials in conjunction with the teacher's participation. Based on the premise that second language learning is experiential and emergent and using discourse analysis of students' asynchronous electronic postings and writing assignments together with…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Stereotypes, Second Language Learning, Discourse Analysis
Petric, Bojana – Journal of Second Language Writing, 2012
Using textual analysis and interviews with student writers, this study aims to provide an insight into second language students' use of direct quotations in their MA theses by comparing direct quotations in high-rated and low-rated Master's theses, and by exploring student writers' own motivations to quote directly from sources. The corpus…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Introductory Courses, Plagiarism, Translation
Diez-Bedmar, Maria Belen; Perez-Paredes, Pascual – Language Learning & Technology, 2012
Online collaborative writing tasks are frequently undertaken in forums and wikis. Variation between these two communication modes has yet to be examined, particularly type of feedback and its effects. We investigated the type of feedback and the impact of English native-speakers' feedback on Spanish peers' discourse restructuring in the context of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Feedback (Response), Collaborative Writing, Native Speakers
Kessler, Greg; Bikowski, Dawn; Boggs, Jordan – Language Learning & Technology, 2012
This study investigates Web-based, project oriented, many-to-many collaborative writing for academic purposes. Thirty-eight Fulbright scholars in an orientation program at a large Midwestern university used a Web-based word processing tool to collaboratively plan and report on a research project. The purpose of this study is to explore and…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Collaborative Writing, Writing Processes, Teaching Methods