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Brett Healey – Literacy, 2025
Effective professional development (PD) in teaching writing involves supporting teachers' knowledge of the writer's craft, including their thinking processes, linguistic knowledge and practical strategies for teaching these. Grammar-for-writing approaches support teachers' knowledge of how grammar creates meaningful effects in writing. While…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Grammar, Writing Teachers
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Tom Slagle – Journal of Basic Writing, 2023
Responding to a lack of attention to language in transfer pedagogies, this study examines the potential effects that direct language-level instruction has on the metalinguistic awareness of students who were enrolled in stretch and corequisite courses at two four-year, public universities. Informed by a functional view of language, the instruction…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Metalinguistics
Quigley, Alex – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022
This book explains seven critical steps to improve children's writing. Though seemingly 'natural', writing proves devilishly difficult for far too many school pupils and closing this gap can have a lasting impact on their academic and life success. With the goal of giving every teacher the knowledge and skill to teach writing with confidence, it…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Achievement Gap, Writing Instruction, Teacher Competencies
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Salas, Naymé; Pascual, Mariona; Birello, Marilisa; Cross, Anna – Written Communication, 2023
Teaching linguistic aspects relevant to text construction is an essential component of any thorough writing instruction program, despite the conflicting evidence regarding its effectiveness. In this study, 889 second- and fourth-grade students were assigned to one of three conditions: Self-Regulated Development (SRSD), SRSD-connectors (SRSD-C),…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Self Management, Writing Strategies
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Karakus, Gülçin – Research in Pedagogy, 2023
This paper presents a systematic literature review of studies about writing in elementary schools. A systematic search of databases was conducted to select studies. The aim was to identify and categorize difficulties and suggestions. A total of 52 articles published in peer-reviewed journals over the past 21 years were reviewed and analyzed using…
Descriptors: Writing Research, Writing Instruction, Learner Engagement, Elementary School Students
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Yi-Chun Christine Yang – Taiwan Journal of TESOL, 2024
This study examines the relationship between EFL students' noticing and three written feedback strategies. The convenience sampling method was adopted and four intact classes were randomly assigned into four groups: the model, the error correction, the reformulation, and the control groups. After the completion of picture-cued writing tasks as…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Error Correction
Amy K. Brumfield – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Nearly all first-year composition learning objectives state that writing instructors will help each student to improve their knowledge of written conventions, like punctuation, spelling, and grammar. Historically, it has been difficult to achieve significant learning gains in writing mechanics. This teaching failure disproportionately damages the…
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, Writing Instruction, Grammar, Punctuation
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Tsiriotakis, Ioanna K.; Spiliotopoulos, Valia; Grünke, Matthias; Kokolakis, Costas – Journal of Education and Learning, 2021
In the present study, a quasi-experimental pre-post test design was used to assess the effects of an argumentative writing strategy (POW+TREE) on the performance of grade five and six students of Greek origin who were learning English as a foreign language (EFL) in a Greek setting. The Self-Regulated Strategy Development (SRSD) cognitive…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Writing Strategies, Grade 5
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Tüm, Gülden – African Educational Research Journal, 2020
Writing is the most difficult language skill to be learned and applied by learners of Turkish as a foreign language (TFL) because their native, foreign, and target language(s) might have different linguistic properties and even alphabets. Even they may come from different language families that influence TFL learners to have syntactic, lexical,…
Descriptors: Turkish, Writing Instruction, Alphabets, Writing Skills
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Bonetto, Elena, Ed.; Ennis, Michael Joseph, Ed.; Unterkofler, Dietmar, Ed. – Online Submission, 2020
The international symposium "Teaching Languages for Specific and Academic Purposes" aimed to bring together university instructors and researchers of LSP and LAP in order to share and explore approaches, methods, and practices which have emerged within diverse contexts. Topics include needs analyses, TBLT, curriculum development,…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Languages for Special Purposes, Higher Education
Achieving the Dream, 2022
Gateway courses in English challenge students to strengthen skills in critical thinking, reading, grammar, and writing structure and strategies -- skills that also help build competency in comprehension and composition. They can also prove to be a particular challenge to many community college students. This case study examines the efforts at…
Descriptors: Remedial Instruction, Community Colleges, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills
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Lee, Sangmin-Michelle – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2020
Although it remains controversial, machine translation (MT) has gained popularity both inside and outside of the classroom. Despite the growing number of students using MT, little is known about its use as a pedagogical tool in the EFL classroom. The present study investigated the role of MT as a CALL tool in EFL writing. Most studies on MT as a…
Descriptors: Translation, Computational Linguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Hussain, Syed Sarwar – English Language Teaching, 2019
Of all English Language skills, writing poses the greatest challenge for students due to the demands of style, structure and vocabulary. Even if second language learners (L2 learners) can speak the language well enough for everyday activities--shopping, traveling, and so on, producing an academic write-up that is precise, accurate, objective and…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), English for Special Purposes
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Ostovar-Namaghi, Seyyed Ali; Safaee, Seyyed Esmail – English Language Teaching, 2017
Being driven by the hypothetico-deductive mode of inquiry, previous studies have tested the effectiveness of theory-driven interventions under controlled experimental conditions to come up with universally applicable generalizations. To make a case in the opposite direction, this data-driven study aims at uncovering techniques and strategies…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Writing Strategies, Experienced Teachers, Educational Strategies
Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic, 2013
This event focused on the Institute of Education Sciences' practice guide, "Teaching Elementary School Students to Be Effective Writers" (2012) (see ED533112). Dr. Natalie Olinghouse and Alisha Bollinger presented effective strategies for teaching writing while familiarizing attendees with the recommendations and methods described in the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Teaching Methods, Writing Instruction, Writing Skills
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