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Chao-Jung Ko – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024
This study aimed to examine the impact of an online writing system (OWS) providing individualized corrective feedback (CF) on learners' self-correction of grammatical errors (GE). It consisted of two phases: the pilot and the formal phases. Four EFL (English as a Foreign Language) Taiwanese university students participated in the study at the…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Grammar
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Reynolds, Barry Lee; Teng, Mark Feng – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2021
The study examined the types of written corrective feedback given by second language writing teachers on Taiwanese secondary school students' collocation errors. First, the written corrective feedback that teachers provided on learners' word choice errors was examined to uncover the types of feedback provided. Then, analysis focused on verb-noun…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Error Correction, Secondary School Students, Writing Teachers
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Yi-Chun Christine Yang – Taiwan Journal of TESOL, 2024
This study examines the relationship between EFL students' noticing and three written feedback strategies. The convenience sampling method was adopted and four intact classes were randomly assigned into four groups: the model, the error correction, the reformulation, and the control groups. After the completion of picture-cued writing tasks as…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Error Correction
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Wu, Yi-ju – Language Learning & Technology, 2021
Adopting the approaches of "pattern hunting" and "pattern refining" (Kennedy & Miceli, 2001, 2010, 2017), this study investigates how seven freshman English students from Taiwan used the Corpus of Contemporary American English to discover collocation patterns for 30 near-synonymous change-of-state verbs and new ideas about…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Puspitasari, Dani; Weng, Cathy; Hsieh, Yu-Fen – International Journal of Language Education, 2020
The establishment of English medium instruction (EMI) brings opportunities for non-native English speaking institutions to compete with Anglophone universities and attract international students to join their program. More policies were designed to improve the academic environment quality and attract international students. As a thesis becomes the…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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Liao, Hui-Chuan – ELT Journal, 2016
Despite the recent development of automated writing evaluation (AWE) technology and the growing interest in applying this technology to language classrooms, few studies have looked at the effects of using AWE on reducing grammatical errors in L2 writing. This study identified the primary English grammatical error types made by 66 Taiwanese…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Revision (Written Composition), Process Approach (Writing), Grammar
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Liang, Mei-Ya – Language Learning & Technology, 2010
In recent years, synchronous online peer response groups have been increasingly used in English as a foreign language (EFL) writing. This article describes a study of synchronous online interaction among three small peer groups in a Taiwanese undergraduate EFL writing class. An environmental analysis of students' online discourse in two writing…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Computer Mediated Communication
Lin, Grace Hui Chin; Chien, Paul Shih Chieh – Online Submission, 2009
Copious researches argue the effectiveness of peer-correction in writing courses (e.g., Connor & Asenavage, 1994). Also, Coit (2004) mentions using peer feedback for correcting articles through a student-centered environment is a beneficial pedagogy to extend learners' academic-style writing practice. Therefore, this study focused on…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Foreign Countries, Writing Teachers, Writing Instruction
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Bradley, Linda, Ed.; Thouësny, Sylvie, Ed. – Research-publishing.net, 2012
For the first time, the annual conference of the European Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL) took place in Sweden. The conference took place at the Faculty of Education on historic ground on the old fortification walls of Carolus Dux from the 17th century right in the centre of the city. This year's host comprised the…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Computer Assisted Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Warden, Clyde A. – Language Learning, 2000
To understand students' reaction to feedback, path analysis was used to generate models of student writing activity. Results suggest that Taiwan business English writing students may implement proofreading and self-directed redrafting behaviors aimed towards improving their writing when objective sentence-level error feedback is supplied with no…
Descriptors: Business Communication, English (Second Language), Error Correction, Feedback
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Chin-Liou, Hsien; And Others – CALICO Journal, 1992
A one-year study is reported that addresses whether and in which way grammatically computer-assisted language learning (CALL) can help English writing instruction in a Taiwanese setting. Results of a CALL courseware intervention with first-year college students suggest that classroom instruction combined with grammatical CALL is at least not…
Descriptors: College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)
Huang, Su-Yueh – 2000
Some university English as a foreign language (EFL) composition teachers in Taiwan have experimented with audiotaping their commentary on students' writing to help students revise. However, there has been little research on how effective this is for Chinese students. Therefore, a study was designed to shed light on this issue by comparing…
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Case Studies, Chinese, College Students