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Sivaci, Seda – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2020
The purpose of the present study is to find out whether the use of peer feedback activity in writing classes could reduce the writing anxiety levels of pre-service teachers of English in Turkey. In total, 26 students participated in the study lasted for 2 academic terms in 2019-2020. During the study, after each writing assignment (8 writing…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Writing Apprehension, Preservice Teachers
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Ates, Ayse; Sis, Nesrin – International Education Studies, 2021
In the study, the effect of hierarchical vocabulary activities prepared in accordance with Gass's Second Language Acquisition Model developed by Ates (2016) on students' written expression skills and writing anxiety was investigated. While the determined target words were taught to the experimental group with hierarchical vocabulary activities,…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Comparative Analysis
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Eubanks, Jia-Fang; Yeh, Hsin-Te; Tseng, Hungwei – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2018
Digital mobile devices such as iPads have been around for many years and have been more and more popular in K-12 classrooms. Research has pointed out the advantages of using iPads in classrooms to enhance teaching, engage learning, and promote learning outcomes. iPads have been proven to be a useful and powerful digital mobile device in language…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 2, Second Language Learning, Mandarin Chinese
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Jeon, Eun Young – TESOL International Journal, 2018
The current educational trend strongly encourages students' active participation in learning. However, EFL writing instructions in Korea are so far detached from this approach. That is, most English writing classes in Korea are still teacher-centered and most learners remain passive throughout the classroom period. In order to bring about change…
Descriptors: Student Centered Learning, Writing Instruction, English (Second Language), College Students
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Jiang, Dongmei – International Journal of Higher Education, 2016
This study investigated the effect of cooperative learning on writing anxiety alleviation through a pre-test/post-test assessment. 120 EFL learners from a Chinese polytechnic institute were assigned into two groups: one experimental (cooperative writing) and the other comparison (solitary writing). Results revealed that cooperative learning…
Descriptors: Writing Apprehension, Cooperative Learning, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
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Foroutan, Maryam; Noordin, Nooreen – English Language Teaching, 2012
ESL/EFL Anxiety has been reported as one of the foremost factors affecting ESL learners' performance. Hence, identifying methods to assist language learners to alleviate their ESL anxiety deserve to be considered by the educators. This study compared the effect of dialogue journal writing (DJW) through two different modes of learning and teaching:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Chuo, Tun-Whei Isabel – TESL-EJ, 2007
This study investigated the effects of the WebQuest Writing Instruction (WQWI) program on Taiwanese EFL learners' writing performance, writing apprehension, and perception of web-resource integrated language learning. Participants were students from two junior college classes. One class received traditional classroom writing instruction and the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing Instruction