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Vögelin, Cristina; Jansen, Thorben; Keller, Stefan D.; Möller, Jens – Language Learning Journal, 2021
This experimental study examined the influence of vocabulary and spelling on teachers' perceptions of English as a second language (ESL) essays. Sixty-nine pre-service teachers from Switzerland and Germany rated four upper-intermediate ESL argumentative essays and provided written comments on strengths and weaknesses of the student compositions.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary, Spelling
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Chang, Chuan-Chi; Wei, Li-Wei – English Language Teaching, 2022
Although the behavior and impacts of instructor reflection in writing classes have been extensively studied over the past few decades, a significant proportion of the work has concentrated on students' attitudes and utilization of all such responses, as opposed to teachers' perspectives, self-assessments, and actual text comments given. Research…
Descriptors: Essays, Writing Assignments, Teacher Attitudes, English (Second Language)
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Tuzcu-Eken, Derya – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2021
The current paper is a mixed method study which aimed to find out teacher written feedback preferences of a group of prep-class students at a public university in Turkey. The written corrective feedback preferences of 37 students with high level of proficiency in English were examined via a questionnaire and an interview. The study lasted for two…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Feedback (Response), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Patekar, Jakob – Language Testing, 2021
Writing in a foreign language is a particularly difficult skill to develop, especially when young learners are concerned because they are parallelly learning to write in their L1 and do not have strong oral foundations in their L2. The issue becomes even more complex when the ways to assess young learners' writing are considered, given that…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Test Construction, Foreign Countries, Oral Language
Yoon, Hyung-Jo – ProQuest LLC, 2017
In this study, I explored the interactions among genre, task complexity, and L2 proficiency in learners' writing task performance. Specifically, after identifying the lack of valid operationalizations of genre and task dimensions in L2 writing research, I examined how genre functions as a task complexity variable, and how learners' perceptions and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency
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Bratkovich, Meghan Odsliv – Working Papers in TESOL & Applied Linguistics, 2014
This study investigated the nature of self-assessment and blind peer- and teacher-assessment in L2 writing. The type of feedback students gave to themselves and peers, the type of feedback used in the revision process, and the source of the feedback used were all analyzed. Additionally, student perceptions of self- and peer-assessment, feedback,…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Peer Evaluation
Al-Serhani, Wafa Fahed – Online Submission, 2007
This study investigated the effect of the portfolio assessment strategy to teach and assess writing performance of EFL third year students enrolled at the 3rd Secondary School, Skaka (Al-Jouf region). The purpose of the study was to determine whether a specific portfolio assessment model was effective in helping the students to improve their…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Writing Skills, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning