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Verity Aiken – Teaching in Higher Education, 2023
A theoretical understanding is offered to help explore how students attempt to reconcile divergent narratives around the purposes of Higher Education in relation to their own writing. Drawing from the twin notions of centripetal and centrifugal forces, the paper discusses the ways that students both follow and resist convention in their own…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Academic Language
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Chad C. Tossell; Nathan L. Tenhundfeld; Ali Momen; Katrina Cooley; Ewart J. de Visser – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2024
This article examined student experiences before and after an essay writing assignment that required the use of ChatGPT within an undergraduate engineering course. Utilizing a pre-post study design, we gathered data from 24 participants to evaluate ChatGPT's support for both completing and grading an essay assignment, exploring its educational…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Computer Software, Artificial Intelligence, Grading
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Wenting Chen; Meixiu Zhang – Language Awareness, 2024
While much research supports the benefits of computer-mediated collaborative writing (CW) in second language (L2) classrooms, the assessment of CW has received scant attention. This study proposed an assessment scheme considering both the products and processes when assessing online synchronous CW, and explored its effects on learners'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, English (Second Language), English Language Learners
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Xu Li; Shiyan Jiang; Yue Hu; Xiaoxiao Feng; Wenzhi Chen; Fan Ouyang – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
While the importance of feedback in education is well established, the effects of structured knowledge in collaborative academic writing remains uncertain. This study introduces an academic writing feedback tool that combines structured knowledge mining, analysis, and visualization. An empirical experiment was conducted in a second-year university…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Collaborative Writing, Cognitive Structures, Feedback (Response)
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Qianqian Zhang-Wu; Alison Stephens; Neal Lerner – Composition Studies, 2023
Our research explores the meaningful writing experiences of 325 undergraduate students who self-identify as multilingual. Through qualitative coding of open-ended survey data, we found that respondents considered their writing meaningful when it allowed them to make personal and relevant connections and learn new skills and strategies. Our…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Multilingualism, Writing Instruction, Writing Assignments
Durinova, Marina A. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Writing in English as a second or additional language has become an important skill that can be applied in many areas of human activity. As we become a society within which written text is an important instrument that helps create new ideas, services, and products, English text is often used as a preferred mode of communication. Traditionally…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Creative Writing
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Bleakney, Julia; Li, Li; Holland, Emily; Rosinski, Paula; Moore, Jessie L. – Composition Forum, 2021
We report on a survey of students and alumni, examining their "rhetorical training"--their writing knowledge and experiences across multiple courses, campus employment, and workplace contexts. The survey asked participants to identify their most often written genres and their most valued type of writing, the rhetorical situations in…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Writing Instruction, Writing Processes, Writing Attitudes
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Hsin-Yi Cyndi Huang; Ming-Fen Lo; Chiung-Jung Tseng – Educational Technology & Society, 2024
This study investigated the effectiveness of applying pedagogical translanguaging by utilizing Google Translate to facilitate college juniors in writing presentation scripts. Participants included 109 non-English major juniors divided into high- and low-proficiency groups, with 56 and 53 students, respectively. Each participant first drafted their…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computational Linguistics
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Jie Liu – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
The mixed-method study firstly drew on regression analysis to check what influential variables were in constructing authorial voice of 45 Chinese MTI students (postgraduates) in an EFL writing course, and then based upon quantitative findings, qualitatively examined how students' EFL writing may resonate with voice teaching in the course with data…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Eyre, Jan – set: Research Information for Teachers, 2022
This article focuses on the 2019 National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA) assessment of student ability in writing. It begins with an overview of the study and its results, then turns to students' use of planning strategies to support their writing. Drawing on research on the association between planning and achievement in writing,…
Descriptors: Writing Strategies, Writing Achievement, Correlation, Writing Processes
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Pacheco, Oscar; Huertas, Adriana – Knowledge Management & E-Learning, 2022
The purpose of this research was to analyze the effects of a writing strategy for text production among primary school students with different cognitive styles (CS) in the field dependence-independence (FDI) dimension. The writing strategy is based on collaborative work, autonomous work, and work integrating technology, which is referred to as…
Descriptors: Writing Strategies, Writing Instruction, Elementary School Students, Cognitive Style
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Debra Myhill; Abdelhamid M. Ahmed; Esmaeel Abdollahzadeh; Lameya M. Rezk – Language Awareness, 2024
Research in metadiscourse has foregrounded the multiple ways in which writers build a relationship with readers through internal discourse. Yet, few studies consider the relationship between the texts writers create and the metalinguistic thinking which informs their decision-making as writers. This paper draws on data from a larger study which…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Zhang, Yanhong; Xi, Jiao – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2023
Research into metacognition has found it to facilitate self-regulation and correlate to learners' L2 writing level. Following Lee & Mak's (2018) framework of Metacognitive Instruction (MI) for L2 writing classrooms, this study applies Dynamic Assessment (DA) to writing MI (MI-DA) in a rural middle school EFL class in China. A one-semester…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Correlation
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Vandermeulen, Nina; Van Steendam, Elke; De Maeyer, Sven; Rijlaarsdam, Gert – Written Communication, 2023
This intervention study aimed to test the effect of writing process feedback. Sixty-five Grade 10 students received a personal report based on keystroke logging data, including information on several writing process aspects. Participants compared their writing process to exemplar processes of equally scoring (position-setting condition) or…
Descriptors: Intervention, Writing Processes, Feedback (Response), Futures (of Society)
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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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