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Erin Pacquetet – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation explores the relationship between language production processes and recorded typing behaviors among native speakers of English writing in their native language. Typing is quite prevalent in modern societies, as its use is becoming increasingly required in professional and personal settings but it remains largely understudied in…
Descriptors: English, Native Language, Writing (Composition), Word Processing
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Autumn B. Hostetter; Natalie Call; Grace Frazier; Tristan James; Cassandra Linnertz; Elizabeth Nestle; Miaflora Tucci – Teaching of Psychology, 2025
Background: Psychology instructors frequently assign writing-to-learn exercises that include personal reflection. Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) can write text that passes for humans in other domains. Objective: Do students and faculty rate a reflection written by GenAI differently than reflections written by students? Do students and…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, College Faculty, Undergraduate Students
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David W. Brown; Dean Jensen – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2023
The growth of Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbots has created a great deal of discussion in the education community. While many have gravitated towards the ability of these bots to make learning more interactive, others have grave concerns that student created essays, long used as a means of assessing the subject comprehension of students, may…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Computer Software, Writing (Composition)
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Jamie Costley; Han Zhang; Matthew Courtney; Galina Shulgina; Matthew Baldwin; Mik Fanguy – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2025
While the use of collaborative peer editing is widespread in some online learning contexts, little is known about how constituent editing behaviours impact student writing quality when using shared online documents as the mediating tool. Therefore, the present study (n = 176) examines the effects of English language learners' peer editing…
Descriptors: Editing, Peer Evaluation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Ebadi, Saman; Gholami, Mina; Vakili, Shokoufeh – Computers in the Schools, 2023
Online grammar checkers have increasingly been used in writing instruction to detect and remove English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' grammatical errors. This study investigated the effects of the automated writing evaluation software "Grammarly" on Iranian EFL learners' article errors which are common in EFL writing. Ninety…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Pong-ampai Kongcharoen; Jiraporn Dhanarattigannon; Intira Bumrungsalee – rEFLections, 2025
In recent years, there has been a growing trend of using informal styles in academic writing, including research articles. To examine the degree of formality in students' writing, this corpus-based study aimed to analyze the formal linguistic features in the academic writing assignments of English-major students at a Thai university. The learner…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Essays, Majors (Students), English (Second Language)
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Ralf Giessler – Language Awareness, 2024
This paper reports on a pilot study with advanced EFL learners in Germany who were asked to use ProWritingAid (PWA) for a composition task in a German comprehensive school. PWA is an Automated Writing Evaluation (AWE) tool that provides writers with feedback on grammar, spelling mistakes, and writing style during the writing and editing process.…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Writing Instruction, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
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Abd-Elaal, El-Sayed; Gamage, Sithara H. P. W.; Mills, Julie E. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2022
Authentic writing is an important aspect in education and research. Unfortunately, academic misconduct occurs among students and researchers. Consequently, written articles undergo certain detection measures and most teaching and research institutions use a range of software to detect plagiarism. However, state-of-the-art Automatic Article…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Identification, Computational Linguistics, Computer Software
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Rahayu, Famala Eka Sanhadi; Utomo, Aries; Setyowati, Ririn – Indonesian Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, 2021
In measuring learners' productivity in writing and speaking, there is a formulation known as syntactic and lexical complexity. This study investigates whether there is a difference in syntactic and lexical complexity between L1 and L2 writings or not. This study is quantitative research which employ Web-Based Lexical Complexity Analyser and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Syntax
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Hosseinpur, Rasoul Mohammad; Pour, Hossein Hosseini – TESL-EJ, 2022
A compelling body of evidence suggests that EFL students have problem with logical connectors' appropriate use in writing. This study explored Iranian EFL students' adversative connectors use in their essay writing course. To this end, a Learner Corpus of 60393 words consisting of 156 essays was compiled. LOCNESS was chosen as the criterion…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Native Language
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Li, Xi-ping – English Language Teaching, 2021
Writing is one of productive skills and a way of conveying information considered to be the most complex and the most challenging skill for EFL English learners to acquire, hence many studies have been conducted on the revelation of the characteristic of writings of EFL learners and how to improve them. Among them, pronoun study has attracted…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Pinheiro, Petrilson – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2020
Text review activities in formal schooling settings are by and large carried out vertically and often in an authoritarian way, in which teachers usually assign text production activities for students whose only readers and reviewers are their own teachers. Consequently, students rarely have the experience of sharing their texts with one another.…
Descriptors: Multiple Literacies, Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Graduate Students
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Chon, Yuah V.; Shin, Dongkwang – English Teaching, 2020
While learners may have access to reference tools during second language (L2) writing, the latest developments in machine translation (MT), such as "Google Translate" requires examination as to how using the tool may factor into the second language learners' writing products. To this end, the purpose of this study was to examine how MT…
Descriptors: Translation, Computational Linguistics, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Aitken, Adam; Thompson, Darrall G. – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2018
First year undergraduate design students have found difficulties in realising the standards expected for academic writing at university level. An assessment initiative was used to engage students with criteria and standards for a core interdisciplinary design subject notable for its demanding assessment of academic writing. The same graduate…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Design, Assignments, Computer Software
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Kim, Sung-Yeon; Kim, Kyung-Sook – TESL-EJ, 2022
Reading-integrated writing is known as an effective approach to teaching and learning vocabulary as it allows students to transfer vocabulary from a source text to writing. This study examines whether vocabulary transfer from an input text to writing varies according to the two types of tasks: essay writing and synchronous text chat. One hundred…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Learning Processes, Word Lists, Transfer of Training
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