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Download full textErturk, Gulsah Tikiz; Ozturk, Kadim – English Language Teaching, 2022
This study aims to identify (1) how EFL graduate-level students at various Turkish universities regard the level of difficulty in terms of the different sections of a scholarly work in their academic writing practices, (2) whether their perceptions concerning the difficulty of the various sections show a significant difference depending on their…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Academic Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Kumar, Tribhuwan – TESOL International Journal, 2020
This research is based on the difficulties and effectiveness of creative writing in language learning. Creative writing is the art of sorts, the art of making things up. It is writing done in a way that is not academic or technical but still attracts an audience. Nowadays, there is too much attention of teachers is on making students be a creative…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Creative Writing, Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness
Gezmis, Nejla – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2020
The purpose of this study is to identify in which stage/stages of the Process Writing Approach students have difficulties most. This posttest-experimental study was applied to the 50 first-year students studying English Translation and Interpreting. The students were expected to produce an essay with the help of the Process Writing Approach at the…
Descriptors: Process Approach (Writing), Undergraduate Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Siu, Fiona Kwai-peng – Online Submission, 2018
Different approaches have been used to teach EFL students summary writing, including a genre-based approach (Chen & Su, 2012), implementing key words and question generation (Chou, 2012), and automatic scaffolding and concept mapping (Yang, 2015). This study aims to explore the effectiveness of another approach--one that might be more…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Generalization
Direct linkÇelik, Tugba; Demirgünes, Sercan – College Student Journal, 2016
Weblogs offer a new writing and reading environment. Most people in the education process may improve their writing skills and achieve new perspectives related to writing via weblogs. In this study the changes that weblog writing process created in undergraduates'/candidate teachers' minds regarding writing are revealed. The weblog writing process…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Electronic Publishing, Writing Processes, Writing Skills
Inceçay, Volkan – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2015
Problem Statement: In this qualitative small-scale study, I aimed at investigating why students have difficulties in adjusting themselves to English writing conventions. I also examined the possible bilateral effects of Turkish and English writing conventions to determine whether engaging learners in contrastive rhetoric exercises can elucidate…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Writing Instruction, Bilingualism, Writing (Composition)
Chang, Chiungying Evelyn; Strauss, Pat – Language and Education, 2010
This paper seeks to highlight the issue of learner agency in the supervisory relationship. Although this study is confined to the perceptions of a small group of Chinese-speaking international students, this issue is not one peculiar to them. Dealing with status imbalances in this relationship is a challenge that faces all students regardless of…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Difficulty Level, Supervisor Supervisee Relationship, Writing Processes
Hurlow, Marcia L. – 1981
A study examined the relationship between students' linguistic insecurity (writing apprehension) and writing performance. College students in three remedial and two freshman composition classes were administered a test of linguistic insecurity that included pronunciation items and choices of hypercorrect, colloquial, and nonstandard versions of…
Descriptors: Anxiety, College Students, Difficulty Level, Higher Education
Lynch, Collin F., Ed.; Merceron, Agathe, Ed.; Desmarais, Michel, Ed.; Nkambou, Roger, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2019
The 12th iteration of the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2019) is organized under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society in Montreal, Canada. The theme of this year's conference is EDM in Open-Ended Domains. As EDM has matured it has increasingly been applied to open-ended and ill-defined tasks…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Analysis, Information Retrieval, Content Analysis
Kim, Jin-Wan – Texas Papers in Foreign Language Education, 1996
A study investigated linguistic, rhetorical, and strategic variables of the writing processes and products of 3 groups of graduate and undergraduate students: 28 native English-speaking Americans; 28 Koreans studying in the United States; and 90 Korean students in Korea. The last two groups were learners of English as a Second Language (ESL). Data…
Descriptors: Advanced Courses, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Difficulty Level
