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Friddle, Karole-Ann; Ivey, Gay – Reading Teacher, 2023
Research suggests that when young children have many opportunities to write they start believing they are the sort of people who can write for intellectual, academic, and social purposes. They also learn foundational reading skills. Project-like compositional writing involving design, strategies, and problem solving versus functional writing or…
Descriptors: Young Children, Writing Skills, Writing Ability, Learning Motivation
Mahmoud Abdi Tabari; Xiaofei Lu; Yizhou Wang – Language Awareness, 2025
This study explored the relationship between task complexity, textual emotionality, and linguistic complexity in second language (L2) writing. Fifty-eight L2 English learners performed simple and complex versions of an argumentative writing task manipulated along with resource-directing variables. The essays were first analysed for textual…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Võ Th? Di?m My; Nguy?n Van L?i – Educational Process: International Journal, 2025
Background/purpose: This study examined Vietnamese English majors' competence and perception of academic collocations to determine the need for targeted instruction. The research aimed to identify specific challenges these learners face in learning and using academic collocations in their writing. Methods: The study involved 199 Vietnamese English…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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
David James Woo; Deliang Wang; Kai Guo; Hengky Susanto – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
This mixed methods study explores EFL students' experiences and perceptions as they learn to write a composition with ChatGPT's support in a classroom instructional context. Students' perceptions are explored in terms of their motivation to learn about ChatGPT, cognitive load and satisfaction with the learning process. In a workshop format,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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
Mahmoud Abdi Tabari; Minyoung Cho – Language Teaching Research, 2025
To test the predictive power of the SSARC (stabilize, simplify, automatize, reconstruct, and complexify) model of pedagogic task sequencing in second language (L2) writing development, the present study explores the performance of written decision-making tasks with varied levels of cognitive complexity in a simple-to-complex sequence in comparison…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Advanced Students
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
El-Freihat, Sara; Al-Shbeil, Abeer – International Journal of Instruction, 2021
The study aimed to investigate the effect of child literature based integrative instructional program on promoting 7th graders writing skills at Irbid governorate in Jordan. The sample of the study totaled (87) male and female students selected purposefully. These were randomly assigned into four groups, two experimental groups, the first was…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Childrens Literature, Writing Skills, Comparative Analysis
Yang, Rui – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2022
English argumentative writing is difficult in second language writing for ESL students. Although there has been a lot of research on English argumentative writings, empirical research focusing on claims in argumentative writing is very scarce. Based on the Toulmin model, this paper studied the relationship between the claims and English…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Persuasive Discourse
Brandie L. Bohney – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Although a focus on writing pedagogy is on the rise in English education programs, early-career teachers still often struggle with writing instruction. Writing is notoriously difficult to teach--even for seasoned instructors--and previous studies have indicated that novice English teachers tend to base their writing instruction more on influences…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Beginning Teachers, Language Arts, Difficulty Level
Datchuk, Shawn M.; Hier, Bridget O.; Watts, Emily A. – Elementary School Journal, 2021
We conducted a skills analysis on written expression curriculum-based measurement (WE-CBM) tasks completed by 117 second-grade students. As part of the skills analysis, we scored two WE-CBM tasks (i.e., narrative and expository) for correct and incorrect writing sequences, common writing errors, and sentence structures. Although a majority of…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Elementary School Students, Writing Skills, Curriculum Based Assessment
Chew, Chiou Sheng; Idris, Norisma; Loh, Er Fu; Wu, Wen-Chi Vivian; Chua, Yan Piaw; Bimba, Andrew Thomas – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2019
This paper focuses on the design and evaluation of a theory-based computer-assisted summary writing learning environment called Summary Writing-PAL (SW-PAL). The SW-PAL was developed based on four aspects: summarizing strategies, learning theories, prior knowledge, and cognitive load. A quasi-experiment that involved 58 undergraduates majoring in…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing (Composition), Educational Technology, Computer Uses in Education
Peng, Jinfang; Wang, Chuming; Lu, Xiaofei – Language Teaching Research, 2020
Previous studies demonstrated that the continuation task has great language learning potential and that various task-related factors may affect the extent to which the potential can be exploited (e.g. Wang & Wang, 2015). This study investigates the effect of one understudied factor, the linguistic complexity of the input text, on English as a…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Task Analysis, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Debbie Goss – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This interdisciplinary study examines faculty members' various understandings of writing pedagogies across the curriculum to foster global citizens from the perspective of "soka," or value creation. Broadly, value-creating global citizenship pedagogy develops students' skills and knowledge for the purpose of socioecological good.…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Interdisciplinary Approach, Global Approach, Citizenship Education