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Direct linkParkin, Jason R.; Frisby, Craig L.; Wang, Ze – Contemporary School Psychology, 2020
The simple view of writing suggests that written composition results from oral language, transcription (e.g., spelling/handwriting), and self-regulation skills, coordinated within working memory. The model provides a number of implications for the interpretation of psychoeducational achievement batteries. For instance, it hypothesizes that writing…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Writing Evaluation, Writing Processes, Language Skills
Download full textGrace Kim, Young-Suk – Written Communication, 2022
In this study, we examined burst length and its relation with working memory, attentional control, transcription skills, discourse oral language, and writing quality, using data from English-speaking children in Grade 2 (N = 177; M[subscript age] = 7.19). Results from structural equation modeling showed that burst length was related to writing…
Descriptors: Written Language, Short Term Memory, Attention Control, Writing Skills
Kim, Young-Suk Grace – Grantee Submission, 2022
In this study, we examined burst length and its relation with working memory, attentional control, transcription skills, discourse oral language, and writing quality, using data from English-speaking children in Grade 2 (N = 177; M[subscript age] = 7.19). Results from structural equation modeling showed that burst length was related to writing…
Descriptors: Written Language, Short Term Memory, Attention Control, Writing Skills
Rowe, Deborah Wells; Davis, Zarabeth G.; Piestrzynski, Laura – Reading Research Quarterly, 2023
The purpose of this study was to describe how experienced emergent writing teachers supported 4-year-olds in writing their own messages during the learning centers period of the preschool day. Data were drawn from two, year-long qualitative studies of early writing instruction. Adult participants were three researcher-teachers who worked in…
Descriptors: Writing Teachers, Teacher Student Relationship, Preschool Children, Beginning Writing
Houston, Julia Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This study explored the relationship between legibility in handwriting scores and compositional scores of students in grade five in one Northwest Georgia school. The ability to recall and write the letters automatically may impact the composing skills of students engaged in the writing process. Handwriting, often considered a motor skill in young…
Descriptors: Correlation, Grade 5, Elementary School Students, Recall (Psychology)
Limpo, Teresa; Alves, Rui A. – Written Communication, 2017
It is established that transcription skills (handwriting and spelling) constrain children's writing. Yet, little is known about the mechanism underlying this relationship. This study examined the mediating role of bursts and pauses on the link between transcription skills and writing fluency or text quality. For that, 174 second graders did the…
Descriptors: Written Language, Handwriting, Spelling, Writing Skills
Progress in Written Language Bursts, Pauses, Transcription, and Written Composition across Schooling
Alves, Rui A.; Limpo, Teresa – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2015
Research on adult writers has shown that writing proceeds through bursts of transcription activity interspersed by long pauses. Yet few studies have examined how these writing behaviors unfold during early and middle childhood. This study traces the progress of bursts, pauses, transcription, and written composition in Portuguese students from…
Descriptors: Written Language, Writing (Composition), Elementary School Students, Middle School Students
Alves, Rui A.; Limpo, Teresa; Fidalgo, Raquel; Carvalhais, Lénia; Pereira, Luísa Álvares; Castro, São Luís – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2016
Writing development seems heavily dependent upon the automatization of transcription. This study aimed to further investigate the link between transcription and writing by examining the effects of promoting handwriting and spelling skills on a comprehensive set of writing measures (viz., bursts and pauses, levels of written language, and writing…
Descriptors: Transcripts (Written Records), Writing (Composition), Writing Processes, Writing Instruction
Van Der Steen, Steffie; Samuelson, Dianne; Thomson, Jennifer M. – Written Communication, 2017
This study addresses the current debate about the beneficial effects of text processing software on students with different working memory (WM) during the process of academic writing, especially with regard to the ability to display higher-level conceptual thinking. A total of 54 graduate students (15 male, 39 female) wrote one essay by hand and…
Descriptors: Word Processing, Keyboarding (Data Entry), Writing (Composition), Educational Benefits
Medwell, Jane; Strand, Steve; Wray, David – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2009
Although handwriting is often considered a matter of presentation, a substantial body of international research suggests that the role of handwriting in children's composing has been neglected. Automaticity in handwriting is now seen as of key importance in composing but this proposition is relatively untested in the UK and the assumption has been…
Descriptors: Handwriting, Writing Processes, Writing Skills, Writing (Composition)
Scottish Curriculum Development Service, Edinburgh. – 1985
Intended to encourage teachers to examine their assumptions about teaching writing, this document containing a mixture of theory and practice deals with many aspects of writing. The chapters discuss (1) an examination of children's writing and some questions arising from the examination; (2) reasons for failure to write well, including the home…
Descriptors: Beginning Writing, Child Development, Developmental Stages, Handwriting
Peer reviewedBerninger, Virginia W.; Stage, Scott A. – B.C. Journal of Special Education, 1996
This article describes measures for process assessment of handwriting fluency, spelling, and composition of students with learning or behavioral disabilities. It then discusses common writing problems for these students, and specific process and strategy interventions. (DB)
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Handwriting
Lee, H. K. – Assessing Writing, 2004
This study aimed to comprehensively investigate the impact of a word-processor on an ESL writing assessment, covering comparison of inter-rater reliability, the quality of written products, the writing process across different testing occasions using different writing media, and students' perception of a computer-delivered test. Writing samples of…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Student Attitudes, Writing Tests, Testing
