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Hamdollah Ravand; Farshad Effatpanah; Wenchao Ma; Jimmy de la Torre; Purya Baghaei; Olga Kunina-Habenicht – Applied Measurement in Education, 2024
The purpose of this study was to explore the nature of interactions among second/foreign language (L2) writing subskills. Two types of relationships were investigated: subskill-item and subskill-subskill relationships. To achieve the first purpose, using writing data obtained from the writing essays of 500 English as a foreign language (EFL)…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Writing Instruction, Writing Skills, Writing Tests
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Thomas, Anuja M.; McCarthy, Philip M.; Ahmed, Khawlah; Kaddoura, Noor W.; Duran, Nicholas D. – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2022
Paragraph structure has been identified as consisting of three distinct parts, which are the topic sentence, supporting sentences, and a paragraph ending sentence. Although topic sentences have been widely researched, similar consideration for paragraph endings has been less forthcoming. This discrepancy may be problematic as research suggests…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Paragraph Composition, Text Structure, Models
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Iskandar Abdul Samad; Siti Sarah Fitriani; Yunisrina Qismullah Yusuf; Syamsul Bahri Ys – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2024
English is a demanding language for EFL students especially ones without access to additional support like tutorials, extra classes, and opportunities to use English in their daily lives. Scaffolding the writing process for students and making automatic use of genre knowledge would help them improve their English writing performance. Little is…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Literary Genres
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Mustofa, M. Ibnu; Kurniawan, Eri – Indonesian Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, 2023
Recount text is included within the curriculum of English subjects in the Indonesian context, where students are expected to be well-informed and be able to compose a good recount text to express themselves. The current study aimed at analyzing the recount text written by an advanced (C1 level of English) student based on the concept of Systemic…
Descriptors: Advanced Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Arsyad, Safnil; Madani; Pratiwi, Vika Armanda; An-Nashir, Abdullah Azzam; Erviona, Lussy; Hasiyanti; Marjelina, Oktasya – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2023
Authors should attract readers to read their articles from the very beginning of the article; this is important because readers will stop reading an article if they are not sure that they will obtain new, interesting and important information from the article. This study aims to investigate the rhetorical moves found in a research article abstract…
Descriptors: Periodicals, Authors, Discourse Analysis, Research Reports
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Zheng, Xindi – English Language Teaching, 2021
This study investigates the transitivity structure of research articles and examines the variations of process types across sections, aiming to explore experiential meaning construction in academic discourse. The corpus for this study consists of ten applied linguistics research articles published from 2018 to 2020 in the top journals of the…
Descriptors: Research Reports, Academic Language, Discourse Analysis, Computational Linguistics
Shoshannah Brienz Jenni Lane – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The employment of genre-based pedagogy and Task-Based Language Teaching in second language education is representative of a paradigmatic shift towards a focus on meaning-making. Despite this shift, second language acquisition (SLA) research continues to predominantly rely on complexity, accuracy, and fluency metrics to assess learner production…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, German, Electronic Mail
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Xuan, Winfred Wenhui; Zhang, Dongbing – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2023
The present study examines the ways Chinese high school EFL learners organize information in their writing. A class of 50 students at grade 9 from a local high school in Guangzhou, China, were recruited as participants. The students' writing at grade 9 was collected as a corpus, comprising ten writing tasks from different text types. In order to…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Roose, Tamara Mae; Newell, George E. – ELT Journal, 2020
This preliminary study explores how international students bring their cultural knowledge and experiences into relationship with other writers' ideas as they engage in an online discussion in response to a news text. This article focuses on a language excerpt from an online discussion group, including the assignment prompt, reading text, student…
Descriptors: Academic Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Marashi, Syed Mojtaba – Online Submission, 2020
The notion of "textuality" encouraged Halliday and Hasan in 1976 to present their model of discourse analysis through raising questions about whether "cohesion" was a semantic concept or a structural relation, whether a text was a structural unit or not or even if there were semantic or structural relationships within a text.…
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Tests
Li, Haiying; Graesser, Art C. – Grantee Submission, 2020
This study investigated the impact of conversational agent formality on the quality of summaries and formality of written summaries during the training session and on posttest in a trialog-based intelligent tutoring system (ITS). During training, participants learned summarization strategies with the guidance of conversational agents who spoke one…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Writing Instruction, Writing Skills, Language Styles
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Teng, Feng – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2019
Purpose: This study aims to examine the writing outcomes of 6th-grade students learning English as a second language. Design/methodology/approach: In all 45 students in a text structure instruction (TSI) group were compared with 45 students in a self-regulated strategy instruction (SRSI) group and 43 students receiving traditional writing…
Descriptors: Text Structure, Outcomes of Education, Teaching Methods, Metacognition
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Ryu, Sunhee; Bae, Jungok – English Teaching, 2018
This study investigated a new writing task that utilizes drawing to elicit students' language and original thinking. Two forms of pictures were designed and administered to 118 children. One form was conventional and consisted of completed pictures, requiring students to simply describe the pictures in writing. The other form, which was new,…
Descriptors: Freehand Drawing, Teaching Methods, Thinking Skills, Second Language Learning
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Huang, Shiying – English Language Teaching, 2019
The issue of voice has received considerable critical attention in second language writing (SLW) in the past decades. This study intends to enrich the research of voice in the Chinese context, which may mirror some issues in EFL environments. The short story writing process of an English-major undergraduate was particularly analyzed in this study,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teacher Attitudes
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Purba, Rodearta – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2018
The objective of this study is to find out whether discussion starter story significantly improves the achievement on narrative text of the first grade students of Senior High School. This study was conducted by applying Classroom Action Research (CAR). The subject of this study is the first grade students of SMA Negeri 2 Pangururan in academic…
Descriptors: Writing Improvement, Writing Instruction, Pretests Posttests, Interviews
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