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Michael D'Addario – Discover Education, 2025
With the proliferation of easy-to-use generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, students in college composition courses can and do take advantage of such technology to assist with essay writing. While a growing body of research does not see using these tools as a problem in itself, institutional, departmental, and instructor policies about generative…
Descriptors: Taxonomy, Language Usage, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Software
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Andrew Potter; Mitchell Shortt; Maria Goldshtein; Rod D. Roscoe – Grantee Submission, 2025
Broadly defined, academic language (AL) is a set of lexical-grammatical norms and registers commonly used in educational and academic discourse. Mastery of academic language in writing is an important aspect of writing instruction and assessment. The purpose of this study was to use Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools to examine the extent to…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Natural Language Processing, Grammar, Vocabulary Skills
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Masumeh Rahimivand; Saeideh Ahangari; Nasrin Hadidi Tamjid – Language Testing in Asia, 2025
Writing comprehensibly, dynamically, and persuasively in a foreign language is a significant challenge for learners. Written communication assesses language and writing progress for various summative and developmental goals. Scenario-based assessment (SBA), as one of the methodologies of classroom-based assessment (CBA), aims to elicit both…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Khaled Aldossary – Educational Process: International Journal, 2025
Background/purpose: This study investigated the short-term and long-term impact of collaborative writing on lower-proficiency English as a foreign language (EFL) students in Saudi Arabia. It investigated whether co-authoring enhanced the writing standard, which areas effectively evolved and how effectively the students retained their writing…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Writing Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Qiuyun Lu; Alice Deignan – SAGE Open, 2024
Metaphors are known to present both opportunities and challenges for second language learners, but relatively little is known about learners' awareness of them. To investigate this, we analyzed 72 argumentative essays written in English by a group of 37 intermediate Chinese university students of English. We identified metaphors using an…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Figurative Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Mostafa Papi; Mahmoud Abdi Tabari; Masatoshi Sato – Modern Language Journal, 2024
This study explored the role of feedback-seeking behaviors (FSB) in how English-as-a-second language (ESL) learners benefit from written corrective feedback (WCF). Seventy-six learners enrolled in an ESL writing course at a major university in the United States completed an FSB questionnaire, wrote a narrative essay, received WCF on their essays,…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Ait Hammou, Brahim; Larouz, Mohammed; Fagroud, Mustapha; Akki, Fouad – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée, 2023
This study aims to examine the relationship between the productive knowledge of some lexical and phraseological indices and the quality of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners' writing. A sample of 120 expository essays, written by semesters 1 and 5 university students in a less proficient EFL context, are rated by human evaluators and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing Instruction
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Ming Chen; Yongbing Liu – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2025
This corpus-based study investigates lexical richness in English writing by Chinese senior high school students. Lexical uses in 303 compositions were compared across three grades in terms of lexical sophistication, variation, density and errors. Timed compositions were sampled from Writing Corpus of English Learners, and the sample sizes of three…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, High School Students, Connected Discourse, Foreign Countries
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Nancy Mack – Composition Forum, 2023
The bias against personal experience manifests in writing courses as privileging the citation of scholars, fearing emotional writing, and equating argumentation with democratic ideals. To value the lives and knowledges of marginalized students, the curricular goals, assignments, and activities for writing courses needs to be reconsidered.…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Disadvantaged, Culturally Relevant Education, Personal Narratives
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Sophea, Yin; Chanyoo, Natthapong – English Language Teaching, 2022
The current study aimed to investigate the tendency to use temporal markers (TMs) in English writing by three different levels of Thai writers. Data used in this study were based on the Corpus of Thai Writers of English. The corpus size of approximately 8,800,000 words consisted of essay writing produced by intermediate and advanced student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Writing (Composition)
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Beth Muthoni Kangangi; Catherine Waithera Ndung'U; Peter Kinyanjui Mwangi – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2024
The study examined the types of language errors made by learners in the English narrative essays. It also assessed the feedback techniques employed by teachers of English in the handling of language errors in the English narrative essays. A descriptive research design was employed to examine errors of English narrative essays of 181 form two…
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Dararat Khampusaen – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2025
This study investigates the impact of ChatGPT on EFL students' argumentative writing development of 30 third-year English majors. The research examines writing quality improvements, student perceptions, and patterns of AI tool usage across a 16-week period. This study employed a mixed-methods design to investigate both students' writing…
Descriptors: Integrity, Essays, Persuasive Discourse, Artificial Intelligence
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Balkir, Nalan Bayraktar; Celik, Handan; Cepni, Gokhan – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2023
This study investigated lexical complexity in English language teaching (ELT) students' essays across genres and over the course of time. The essays included descriptive, compare and contrast, advantage and disadvantage, and argumentative genres. Employing a longitudinal, quasi-experimental and repeated measures design in a year-long writing…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Essays
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Li, Hang; Yao, Yao – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2023
The present study examined the effect of language background and topic on productive formulaic competence. Guided by usage-based theory of language learning, this study used a distribution-based approach to the examination of the native-likeness of formulaic usage in English timed argumentative writing. Six indices informed by a large-scale native…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Debra Myhill; Abdelhamid M. Ahmed; Esmaeel Abdollahzadeh; Lameya M. Rezk – Language Awareness, 2024
Research in metadiscourse has foregrounded the multiple ways in which writers build a relationship with readers through internal discourse. Yet, few studies consider the relationship between the texts writers create and the metalinguistic thinking which informs their decision-making as writers. This paper draws on data from a larger study which…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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