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Azizullah Mirzaei; Hanieh Shafiee Rad; Ebrahim Rahimi – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024
The Attention, Relevance, Confidence, and Satisfaction (ARCS) model provides a basis for integrating motivational dynamics and technological affordances into the design and implementation of instructions to maintain learner motivation and interest. Little attention has been paid to this potential in teaching the complex and often demotivating…
Descriptors: Flipped Classroom, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Keisey Fumero; Carla Wood – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2022
Purpose: This study examines the written language samples of fifth grade English learner (EL) students with and without diagnosed language-based learning disabilities (LLDs) in an effort to explore the utility of such supplemental materials for aiding in differential diagnosis of ELs with and without LLDs. Method: This sample of 127 fifth grade…
Descriptors: Grammar, Verbs, Error Analysis (Language), Written Language
Danzak, Robin L. – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2020
Bilingual students are underrepresented in gifted and talented (GT) programs, and language/literacy research on these students is scarce. This study examined academic language in expository writing of 65 GT students, including 32 bilinguals, in Grades 4-8. Outcomes at the word, phrase, sentence, and text levels were compared for bilinguals' versus…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Gifted, Talent, Academic Language
Mercer, Sterett H.; Martinez, Rebecca S.; Faust, Dennis; Mitchell, Rachel R. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2012
We investigated the criterion-related validity of four indicators of curriculum-based measurement in writing (WCBM) when using expository versus narrative writing prompts as compared to the validity of passage copying speed. Specifically, we compared criterion-related validity of production-dependent (total words written, correct word sequences),…
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Writing Evaluation, Curriculum Based Assessment, Writing Tests
Jones-Loheyde, Katherine; And Others – 1982
Two methods of evaluating student writing were compared. Holistic evaluation attempts to assess the overall quality of a composition. It is a guided procedure for sorting or ranking written composition. A rater scores the composition by placing it within the range of papers produced in response to a given assignment. Scoring may also be done using…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Evaluation Methods, Expository Writing, Higher Education
Bauer, Barbara Ann – 1981
To compare the relative reliable uses and cost effectiveness of the analytic, the holistic, and the primary trait scoring methods, an inquiry was conducted in which a group of raters scored a large number of secondary school students' essays according to each of the scoring methods. Raters were nine graduate students in English who were trained in…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cost Effectiveness, Expository Writing, Holistic Evaluation
Clark, Irene Lurkis – 1985
Noting that writers frequently use reading aloud to evaluate written drafts, two studies were conducted to determine the extent to which holistic scores assigned by readers to college freshman essays correlated with holistic scores assigned by listeners. One study used 39 narrative essays, the other used 39 expository essays. The results of the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Expository Writing, Higher Education, Holistic Evaluation
Johnson, Patricia – 1987
An examination was made into cohesion in expository essays written in Malay and in English as a Second Language (ESL) by Malaysian writers. T-tests performed on the data obtained from a cohesion analysis of text indicated no differences in the amount of cohesion between good and weak compositions written in Malay by native speakers (n=20), or in…
Descriptors: Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language)
Collier, Richard M. – 1983
A study compared written texts produced by hand, by typewriter, and by word processor for differences in improvement in creativity and writing skills. Subjects included six college students--two with high creative ability, two with average creative ability, and two with low or weak ability. During a training period, the subjects were required to…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Creativity, Expository Writing
Means, Barbara; And Others – 1980
A study was designed (1) to test whether adult writing is superior to adult speech in terms of organization and content and (2) to assess college students' ability to discriminate between passages differing in quality. Written and spoken passages that compared and contrasted two entities were elicited from college students and adult professionals.…
Descriptors: Adults, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Expository Writing
Swiggett, Betty M. – 1979
A study was conducted to (1) examine the relation of syntactic complexity to mode of discourse in the writing of eighth and twelfth grade students; (2) determine to what extent variations observed were related to grade level, socioeconomic status, and race; and (3) determine to what extent the syntactic complexity achieved on a rewriting task…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comparative Analysis, Creative Writing, Developmental Stages