The academic register of English language has been thought of as a challenging cognitive and pedagogical endeavour for non-native university students whether their L2 educational context is domestic or international. To facilitate the acquisition of academic language, several approaches were proposed over years, chief among which are Computer…

This study aims to investigate the vocabulary problems in the academic writing of MA ELT Libyan students in Nottingham Trent University. For this purpose, two research questions were posed and the answers to these questions were provided and discussed. The data for the study were collected via two questionnaires (preliminary and main…

This action research project involved the implementation of a program designed to improve student motivation to write through the use of children's literature. The targeted populations were students in one kindergarten class and one third grade ELL [English Language Learners] class in two elementary schools. Both schools were located in a…

The purpose of this study was to compare two different methods of teaching college-level English grammar and composition, the linguistic method and the traditional method, to freshman students at a large midwestern university. English students enrolled in the introductory English grammar and composition course served as subjects. The experimental…

The purpose of this study was to determine whether a program of systematic instruction in proofreading would increase: (a) the accuracy of spelling, (b) the gross number of words used, and (c) the number of different words used in original compositions by fourth- and sixth-grade children. In addition, performance was examined in relation to family…

This study presents an argument against the identification of speech as the sole source of data for linguistic research. Specifically, the issue addressed is whether speech and reading and writing can be considered expressions of one language or whether the obvious differences in the terminal symbol strings in the two types of expression are…

As a solution to the problems presented by approaches to teaching English composition that are almost purely cognitive in nature, an experimental course was offered for freshmen at the Miami-Dade Community College. The course was designed to be holistic and confluent, synthesizing both the cognitive and affective domains by incorporating Gestalt…

The present study tested four research hypotheses dealing with sentence-combining (SC) practice as a component of the language arts curriculum. It examined the progress of 100 seventh graders over a period of three months. No formal instruction in grammar was included. Four classes, controlled for ability, sex, and teacher effect, followed a…

This dissertation describes the basic features of four interdisciplinary writing courses at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), explaining briefly how and why they arose. For example, the "adjunct" course featured the conjunction of a writing class and another class on campus (e.g., in political science or history), thus…

Differences between letters of four adolescent mildly mentally handicapped (MMH) students written by hand and those composed on a microcomputer using a word processor were examined in terms of amount of time a subject spent completing a letter, the length of a completed letter, the number of words written per unit of time needed to complete a…

The purpose of this study was to obtain data on the value of role playing as a method of writing instruction. Four classes of freshman composition comprised the sample: one early and one late class as experimental, and one early and one late class as control, with no significant differences between the two at the start. Each group was taught five…

The effects of two methods of teaching a reading vocabulary on writing vocabulary in student compositions were investigated: the teaching of a specific reading vocabulary with students' practice of words in sentences and the teaching of a specific reading vocabulary with students' practice of words in multiple-choice exercises. The retention of…

The three teaching techniques used in three freshmen composition classes at a community college were lecture/discussion, semantic differential, and role playing. Teachers using the lecture/discussion approach presented information especially relevant to either the author, the work, or the milieu and followed the lecture with an open discussion.…

The purpose of this study was to ascertain the current practices in freshman English in Oklahoma colleges. The population in this study included all Oklahoma institutions of higher education fully accredited by the state as of July 1, 1972, and extending through June 30, 1973. Some of the findings were: three-fourths of the senior colleges and all…

Two control classes and two experimental classes of first-semester college freshmen participated in this study, which examined the effect of expressive writing on attitudes toward writing in general. Both groups were taught the same content material and wrote the same number of papers. In addition, the experimental group did expressive writing in…