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Direct linkWang, Jing; Song, Baomei – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2023
To motivate learners to engage in writing courses and help to improve their writing performance, a mobile-game-based collaborative prewriting approach was proposed in this study. A quasi-experiment was implemented by recruiting two classes of non-English major students from a university in northeastern China. Class 1 learned to write under the…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Collaborative Writing, Prewriting, Foreign Countries
Download full textFatima A. Y. Al-Inbari; Baleigh Q. Al-Wasy; Hassan S. Mahdi; Haifa Al-Nofaie – Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2023
This study explores the impact of mind mapping on the writing of English as a Foreign Language [EFL] among Saudi learners and the bilateral effects of mind mapping and other writing processes. Little research has been devoted to the effect of electronic mind mapping as a mediating tool. Despite the cyclical nature of writing processes, the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing Instruction
Yuk, Aderlin Chung Kim; Yunus, Melor Md. – Journal of Education and e-Learning Research, 2021
The main problem faced by English teachers in the current English as a Second Language (ESL) writing classroom was a lack of strategies to support the process of teaching and learning writing that would help to enhance the content quality of pupils' writing performance. Additionally, primary pupils were found to face difficulties with getting…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Educational Technology, Social Media, Electronic Learning
Nagao, Akiko – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2019
This research investigates the changes in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners' psychological attributes in relation to awareness of the lexicogrammatical features and generic structures of a discussion genre essay. This was achieved by implementing a genre-based approach to text-based writing lessons during a 15-week course. The following…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Literary Genres
Evmenova, Anya S.; Regan, Kelley – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2019
Many students with learning disabilities (LD) and emotional/behavioral disorders (EBD) struggle with the writing process. Technology has shown to be effective in supporting prewriting, drafting, revising, proofreading, and publishing of written products. This article explains the use of one technology-based graphic organizer with embedded…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Writing Instruction, Students with Disabilities, Writing Improvement
Flanagan, Sara M.; Bouck, Emily C. – Preventing School Failure, 2015
Written expression is a key component of the secondary curriculum, but many students struggle to produce effective written expression passages. However, written expression can be supported through prewriting strategies such as concept mapping. Using a counterbalanced group design, 19 secondary students alternated between using paper- or…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Writing Difficulties, Writing Improvement, Writing Strategies
Faraj, Avan Kamal Aziz – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
This research reports a study conducted at Koya University/English Language Department, and it aims at presenting the effect of scaffolding on EFL students' writing ability through the writing process. In this study, the students have taken the role of writers, so they need to follow the same steps that writers apply during their writing process.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Pretests Posttests
Hartnet, Carolyn G. – Writing Instructor, 1985
Lists eight ways to develop a topic for a composition. (DF)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Prewriting, Teaching Methods, Writing Exercises
Peer reviewedTompkins, Gail E.; Camp, Donna J. – Childhood Education, 1988
Describes four prewriting techniques that elementary and middle grade students can use to gather and organize ideas for writing, and by so doing, cure writer's block. Techniques discussed are: (1) brainstorming; (2) clustering; (3) freewriting; and (4) cubing.
Descriptors: Brainstorming, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Free Writing
McGlinn, James E.; McGlinn, Jeanne M. – CEA Forum, 1990
Describes a freshman composition course which employs problem-solving exercises as a writing improvement technique. Notes that sharing ideas while solving problems builds new writers' openness and trust, whereas thinking aloud prepares students to benefit from other writers' thinking protocol methods. Suggests that brainstorming can help students…
Descriptors: Brainstorming, College English, Freshman Composition, Higher Education
Robitaille, Marilyn M. – 1987
Designed to combine the science and the art of teaching composition, this series of assignments encourages junior high and high school writing students to explore tone, original visual images, point of view, and other literary techniques. One assignment asks students to write a number of paragraphs alternately using sarcasm, humor, melancholy, and…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Descriptive Writing, Instructional Innovation, Prewriting
Jenseth, Richard – 1984
The expressive reading journal aims to break through student passivity by asking students to write extensively and expressively about what they read, each time they read, and to make discoveries and take possession of what they read. This type of journal in the academic course depends for its usefulness on the nature of expressive language, the…
Descriptors: Prewriting, Reading Improvement, Student Attitudes, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewedTsujimoto, Joseph I. – English Journal, 1984
Describes various revising operations that allow students to genuinely re-see their work in order to revise effectively. (CRH)
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Prewriting, Revision (Written Composition), Secondary Education
McEachern, William Ross – 1986
Elementary school students are unfamiliar with the process of writing a report on an assigned topic. One strategy for rectifying this is to have students compose reports in groups. Group compositions are a collaborative effort to prepare a piece of writing whereby students in either large or small groups work through the writing process together…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Intermediate Grades, Prewriting, Research Papers (Students)
Mallet, Susan – Writing Instructor, 1985
Uses ideas from speech act theory to show students how to become "co-communicants" with their readers. (DF)
Descriptors: Audience Analysis, Higher Education, Prewriting, Speech Acts
