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Sam Salmi; Mohammad Taghi Farvardin – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2025
The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of explicit corrective feedback (CF) strategies (i.e., metalinguistic feedback and explicit correction) versus implicit CF methods (i.e., recasts and explanation questions) in helping English language learners acquire the that-trace filter. To this end, one hundred twenty intermediate…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Feedback (Response), Language Tests, Grammar
Ahmet Tanir – African Educational Research Journal, 2023
The present study investigates the effects of online collaborative writing instruction combined with metacognitive guidance on students' writing performance in German as a foreign language and their metacognitive awareness. For this purpose, a total of 90 students are randomly and equally divided into three groups: group with online collaborative…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Writing Instruction, Collaborative Writing, Teaching Methods
Shoeb Saleh; Abdullah Ibrahim Alsubhi – Language Testing in Asia, 2025
This study inspected how techno-competence in artificial intelligence (AI)-driven evaluations affected EFL learners' boredom, self-esteem, and writing skills. To do so, 66 Saudi Arabian male students from Saudi Arabia participated in the study. They were then split into the experimental group (EG) and the control group (CG). While the CG was…
Descriptors: Self Esteem, Writing Skills, Artificial Intelligence, English (Second Language)
Hamid Allami; Boshra Najari; Zia Tajeddin – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2025
This study explores the impact of sociocultural theory-based instruction on enhancing L2 learners' writing skills including grammatical accuracy, coherence, cohesion, task response, and lexical resources for the IELTS. To this end, a cohort of 40 participants, spanning intermediate and advanced proficiency levels, was divided into experimental and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Writing Skills
Haya Shamir; Erik Yoder; David Pocklington – Online Submission, 2023
Identifying effective means of ameliorating achievement gaps and addressing literacy deficits is essential. Computer-assisted instruction (CAI) is one avenue for providing this effective instruction to the students that can most benefit from it. In the current study, kindergarten students in a public school district in Illinois received…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Literacy Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Achievement Gap
Chen, Ai-hua – English Language Teaching, 2022
This study examined the effects of integrating writing strategy training into EFL writing instruction on learners' strategy use and writing performance. Two classes of EFL adult learners participated in this study. The experimental group were instructed with the writing strategy training in their EFL writing class for 14 weeks, whereas the control…
Descriptors: Writing Strategies, Writing Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Alotaibi, Abdullah Nijr; Alzu'bi, Mohammad – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2022
The study aimed at examining the effect of Paragraph Punch on developing EFL students' writing paragraphs. The participants were eighty English language students of the English Department, Al-Balqa Applied University, who had enrolled in the Writing paragraph course. They were distributed into two assigned sections: the experimental group of (40)…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Fatima A. Y. Al-Inbari; Baleigh Q. Al-Wasy; Hassan S. Mahdi; Haifa Al-Nofaie – Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2023
This study explores the impact of mind mapping on the writing of English as a Foreign Language [EFL] among Saudi learners and the bilateral effects of mind mapping and other writing processes. Little research has been devoted to the effect of electronic mind mapping as a mediating tool. Despite the cyclical nature of writing processes, the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing Instruction
Xu, Jinfen; Li, Changying – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2022
This study investigates how different form-focused instruction (FFI) timing impacts English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' grammar development. A total of 169 Chinese middle school learners were assigned to four conditions randomly: control, before-isolated FFI, integrated FFI, and after-isolated FFI. The three experimental groups received…
Descriptors: Intervention, Grammar, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Rauf, Abdul; Saeed, Muhammad – Journal of Education and Educational Development, 2021
The present study was conducted to find out the effect of reconstruction activities on grade XI students' English writing skills which included mechanical accuracy I (punctuations) and mechanical accuracy II (spellings). The study was carried out employing a pre-test post-test experimental control group design. A government degree college for boys…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Punctuation, Intervention, Spelling
Sun, Xiaoya; Hu, Guangwei – Language Teaching Research, 2023
This article reports on an experimental study that set out to investigate and compare the effectiveness of a direct and an indirect approach to data-driven learning (DDL) in facilitating Chinese learners' mastery of a challenging type of lexico-grammatical resource (i.e. hedges) in an undergraduate English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) writing…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Trang, Nguyen Huynh; Anh, Khau Hoang – International Journal of Instruction, 2022
Writing is one of the four important skills in learning a foreign language. However, most high school students find it uneasy to write due to many different both objective and subjective reasons. Finding effective solutions to this problem is always appreciated. This study, therefore, hopes to investigate whether peer feedback has any positive…
Descriptors: High School Students, Peer Evaluation, Student Attitudes, Feedback (Response)
Alfaifi, Mona J. – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2022
Since its first appearance in the 1970s, the concept of 'metacognition' has received much scholarly attention. This study aims to examine metacognition as a process related to second language (L2) writing, and presents an attempt to teach metacognitive strategies to students to understand their effectiveness in developing writing skill. A blended…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Metacognition
Kadmiry, Mariam – Arab World English Journal, 2021
Writing is an important language skill, and learning to write is not an easy endeavour, especially for English as a foreign language (EFL) students. An effective EFL writing instruction, therefore, plays a significant role in helping EFL students deal with writing problems efficiently and approach writing tasks effectively. Based on this premise,…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Process Approach (Writing), Persuasive Discourse
Wang, Yi-Chien – International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching, 2022
This study explored the effects of technology-mediated task-based language teaching (TMTBLT) in an English as a foreign language (EFL) writing course on students' descriptive writing performance. A quasi-experiment was conducted. Students in two writing courses were recruited and randomly assigned to an experimental or control group. The…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)