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Ait Hammou, Brahim; Larouz, Mohammed; Fagroud, Mustapha; Akki, Fouad – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée, 2023
This study aims to examine the relationship between the productive knowledge of some lexical and phraseological indices and the quality of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners' writing. A sample of 120 expository essays, written by semesters 1 and 5 university students in a less proficient EFL context, are rated by human evaluators and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing Instruction
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Ahmet Can Uyar; Dilek Büyükahiska – International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2025
This study explores the effectiveness of using ChatGPT, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) language model, as an Automated Essay Scoring (AES) tool for grading English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners' essays. The corpus consists of 50 essays representing various types including analysis, compare and contrast, descriptive, narrative, and opinion…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Software, Technology Uses in Education, Teaching Methods
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Junifer Leal Bucol; Napattanissa Sangkawong – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2025
This research paper employs an exploratory framework to evaluate the potential of ChatGPT as an Automated Writing Evaluation (AWE) tool in teaching English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in Thailand. The main objective is to investigate how well ChatGPT can assess students' writing using prompts and pre-defined rubrics compared to human raters.…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Software, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language)
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Ghanbari, Nasim; Barati, Hossein – Language Testing in Asia, 2020
The present study reports the process of development and validation of a rating scale in the Iranian EFL academic writing assessment context. To achieve this goal, the study was conducted in three distinct phases. Early in the study, the researcher interviewed a number of raters in different universities. Next, a questionnaire was developed based…
Descriptors: Rating Scales, Writing Evaluation, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning
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Nagao, Akiko – English Language Teaching, 2020
This study applied a Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) model to explore how 27 first-year university students in two different English proficiency groups improved their lexicogrammatical choices and metafunctions for writing analytical exposition essays during a 15-week course. To explore how "the teaching learning cycle" influences…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Teaching Methods
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Heidari, Jamshid; Khodabandeh, Farzaneh; Soleimani, Hassan – JALT CALL Journal, 2018
The emergence of computer technology in English language teaching has paved the way for teachers' application of Mobile Assisted Language Learning (mall) and its advantages in teaching. This study aimed to compare the effectiveness of the face to face instruction with Telegram mobile instruction. Based on a toefl test, 60 English foreign language…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Conventional Instruction, Teaching Methods, Computer Assisted Instruction
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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