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Wang, Jing; Song, Baomei – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2023
To motivate learners to engage in writing courses and help to improve their writing performance, a mobile-game-based collaborative prewriting approach was proposed in this study. A quasi-experiment was implemented by recruiting two classes of non-English major students from a university in northeastern China. Class 1 learned to write under the…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Collaborative Writing, Prewriting, Foreign Countries
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Fatima A. Y. Al-Inbari; Baleigh Q. Al-Wasy; Hassan S. Mahdi; Haifa Al-Nofaie – Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2023
This study explores the impact of mind mapping on the writing of English as a Foreign Language [EFL] among Saudi learners and the bilateral effects of mind mapping and other writing processes. Little research has been devoted to the effect of electronic mind mapping as a mediating tool. Despite the cyclical nature of writing processes, the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing Instruction
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Lan, Yu-Ju; Tam, Van Thi Thu – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2023
Using a smartphone is a very convenient way to learn languages in modern life. To understand the impact of the immersive environment created by a smartphone on essay writing in Chinese for second language learners, a study was conducted on 36 Vietnamese students in their first year at a university in Taiwan. This study adopted an experimental…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Teaching Methods, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices
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Pope, Carol; Prater, Doris L. – Reading Research and Instruction, 1990
Compares the preferred prewriting invention strategies of advanced, average, and basic ability eleventh grade writers. Finds that freewriting was used most frequently by the total group of students as well as when advanced students' and average students' responses were considered separately. Includes comparisons of preferences by level of student…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Free Writing, Grade 11, High Schools
Thackeray, William – 1985
To evaluate the use of semantic organizers as a means of improving the prewriting techniques of composition students, a study was made of two separate groups of college freshman composition students during an intensive, five-week writing workshop. Data were also collected from case studies of students in the experimental group, including frequent…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cerebral Dominance, College Freshmen, Comparative Analysis
Duin, Ann Hill – Journal of Computer-Based Instruction, 1988
Describes study that investigated the effects of well-designed computer-assisted instruction (CAI) versus poorly designed CAI on college students' computing behavior, quality of prewriting, and attitudes toward the instruction. Comparisons are made with paper versions of both CAI displays, and guidelines for CAI design are presented. (38…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Guidelines