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Marjan Ebadijalal; Nouroddin Yousofi – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024
The current mixed-methods study aimed at incorporating a virtual reality (VR) tool (i.e. Google Expeditions) into the writing process of Iranian English as a foreign language (EFL) learners, examining its impact on their writing motivation and performance. To that end, 42 EFL learners were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups,…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Maps, Geography, English (Second Language)
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Rosário, Pedro; Högemann, Julia; Núñez, José Carlos; Vallejo, Guillermo; Cunha, Jennifer; Oliveira, Vera; Fuentes, Sonia; Rodrigues, Celestino – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2017
Students' writing problems are a global educational concern and is in need of particular attention. This study aims to examine the impact of providing extra writing opportunities (i.e., writing journals) on the quality of writing compositions. A longitudinal cluster-randomized controlled design using a multilevel modeling analysis with 182 fourth…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Self Efficacy, Journal Writing
Siu, Fiona Kwai-peng – Online Submission, 2016
This study aims to explore the effectiveness of a paradigm to teach native Cantonese-speaking university students the hierarchical structure of expository prose to improve paragraph coherence. Most of the diagnostic argumentative essays the participants in this study wrote in the course were incoherent, failing to meet readers' expectation of…
Descriptors: Rhetorical Invention, Paragraph Composition, Writing Strategies, Writing Skills
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Turgut, Fehmi; Kayaoglu, M. Naci – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2015
This study investigates the effect of using rubrics as an instructional tool on students' writing performance in English as a foreign language. The major goal was to liberate the students from the narrow perception of writing based solely on the notion of correct grammar which is strongly felt in EFL writing. In this quasi-experimental research,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Scoring Rubrics, Quasiexperimental Design
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Wichadee, Saovapa – Research in Education, 2014
The study investigated how transactional strategies could improve undergraduate students' reading and writing abilities. A quasi-experimental study was performed with two groups of students. Students in the control group were taught by the traditional method, while students in the experimental group were taught by transactional strategies. The…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Writing Skills, Skill Development, Scores
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Garcia-Sanchez, Jesus-Nicasio; de Caso-Fuertes, Ana-Maria – International Journal of Educational Research, 2005
This study aimed to investigate the importance of self-efficacy and attitudes to wards writing in writing training. It was also necessary to establish whether these constructs could be more enhanced through a specific intervention as part of the motivational factors, than through training which coaches other writing components such as cognitive…
Descriptors: Writing Attitudes, Self Efficacy, Learning Disabilities, Intervention