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Harmey, Sinéad J. – Education 3-13, 2021
Learning to write is a complex process and children have to orchestrate a range of processes and skills in order to produce written messages. Young children are facing increasing demands in terms of the expected complexity of their written messages in education settings across the world. Teachers, in turn, are challenged to support children and…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing Evaluation, Observation, Writing Processes
Ning Fan; Yingying Ma – SAGE Open, 2024
Researchers have been investigating the effects of different planning conditions on learners' second language (L2) writing performance. However, whether such effects differ regarding specific planning conditions and task complexity has remained underexplored. This study examined the effects of pre-task planning (PTP) versus unpressured online…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Syntax
Engaging Indonesian Students in "Read, Reread, List, Compose" Strategy to Enhance Paraphrasing Skill
Yuliani, Tatin; Kurniawati, Nia; Siswayani, Predari – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2023
One crucial skill to master by university students related to academic writing activity is paraphrasing skill. However, in Indonesian context, the university students still find paraphrasing challenging. Therefore, this study is intended to explore the use of read, reread, list, compose (RRLC) strategy to enhace the students' paraphrasing skill in…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Learner Engagement, Writing Instruction, Writing Strategies
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
Chris Mays – College Composition and Communication, 2017
This article uses systems and complexity theory to illustrate key characteristics of writing as a complex system. This illustration reveals how writing works on multiple levels of scale, and adds to the body of theoretical knowledge that can be taught within the discipline of writing studies. In so doing, it shows how a complex systems writing…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction, Writing Teachers, Writing Processes
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
Effects of Increasing the Degree of Reasoning and the Number of Elements on L2 Argumentative Writing
Rahimi, Muhammad – Language Teaching Research, 2019
The impacts of task characteristics on second language (L2) writing require further exploration. This study examined the effects of increasing task complexity on L2 argumentative writing. Upper-intermediate L2 learners performed two writing tasks with varying degrees of complexity in relation to the number of elements and the degree of reasoning.…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Accuracy
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
Sowell, Jimalee – English Teaching Forum, 2019
The use of writing models with nonnative English speakers has received a certain amount of criticism--especially from teachers whose students copy models in their entirety or follow them too closely. The misuse of models has brought some teachers to the point where they believe that the best kind of pedagogy is to abandon writing models…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods, Literary Genres, Discourse Modes
Alharbi, Sultan H. – English Language Teaching, 2017
The principal purpose of this paper is to critically examine and evaluate the efficacy of the principled eclectic approach to teaching English as second/foreign language (ESL/EFL) writing to undergraduate students. The paper illustrates that this new method adapts mainstream writing pedagogies to individual needs of learners of ESL/EFL in order to…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing Instruction
Hasegawa, Hiroshi; Nonis, Karen P. – International Journal of Special Education, 2018
Learning to read and write the Japanese language is not an easy task. For the non-Japanese speaker this can be a struggle and a challenge. Some schools in Western Australia offer children the opportunity to learn Japanese as a foreign language. Consequently, Japanese as a foreign language unit is offered to all undergraduate students in Education.…
Descriptors: Barriers, Teacher Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Ying, Zhang – English Language Teaching, 2018
English writing is regarded as the most difficult task by Chinese EFL learners. Due to the existing problems in present college English writing instruction, teachers fail to provide effective guidance in students' writing process and students report a low level of motivation and confidence in writing tasks. Through purposeful reading discussions…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency
Çelik, 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
Billings, Laura; Roberts, Terry – Educational Leadership, 2013
The Common Core initiative calls for implementing fewer, tougher standards for literacy instruction. Seen from a student's perspective, the standards ask a lot in terms of effort and focus. Educators have to ask themselves, How can they motivate students to care enough about what they read and write to put in the hard work necessary to meet these…
Descriptors: Literacy, Teaching Methods, Speech Communication, Writing Processes
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)
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