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Writing and Language Learning: Advancing Research Agendas. Language Learning & Language Teaching. Volume 56
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Manchón, Rosa M., Ed. – Language Learning & Language Teaching, 2020
The current volume aspires to add to previous research on the connection between writing and language learning from a dual perspective: It seeks to reflect current progress in the domain as well as to foster future developments in theory and research. The theoretical postulations contained in Part I identify and expand in novel ways the diverse…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Investigating the Effects of Planning Time on the Complexity of L2 Argumentative Writing
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Tabari, Mahmoud Abdi – TESL-EJ, 2017
Much research has investigated the role of planning time in second language writing; however, the results show that there are inconsistent findings about the effects of planning time conditions on the complexity of the EFL learners' textual output. The current study attempted to consider the differential effects of planning time conditions in…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Persuasive Discourse
Introspective Accounts of Expository Writing.
Sternglass, Marilyn S. – 1986
In order to study two aspects of the composing process, goal-setting and risk-taking, English and reading graduate students were given a set of readings on the topic of introspection and asked to write weekly papers in response. The papers were summaries, reaction statements, synthesis essays, and position papers, and students kept ongoing…
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Graduate Students, Higher Education, Objectives
A Critical Review of Foreign Language Writing Research on Pedagogical Practices.
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Reichelt, Melinda – Modern Language Journal, 2001
Reviews 32 studies regarding writing in a foreign language in the United States. Focuses on research that investigates relationships between various pedagogical practices or task types assigned and the texts produced by foreign language writers. Topics addressed include exploiting grammar instruction, computer use, task type, strategy training,…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Feedback, Grammar, Second Language Instruction
Contexts for Learning to Write: Studies of Secondary School Instruction. Writing Research: Multidisciplinary Inquiries into the Nature of Writing Series.
Applebee, Arthur N.; And Others – 1984
Building upon the National Study of Writing in the Secondary School conducted in 1981, this volume presents the results of recent scholarly inquiry into the nature of writing. Background information for the study is discussed in chapter 1, while chapter 2 describes the additional data that have been gathered since the national survey: a study of…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Content Area Writing, Prior Learning, Revision (Written Composition)
The Role of Task Representation in Reading-to-Write. Reading-to-Write: Exploring a Cognitive and Social Process Series, Report 2.
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Flower, Linda – 1987
Second in the series "Reading-to-Write: Exploring a Cognitive and Social Process," this report looks at the different ways students represent reading-to-write tasks to themselves, analyzes the resulting divergence in their writing goals and strategies, and recommends teaching task representation as an interpretive process that continues…
Descriptors: College English, Content Area Writing, Expository Writing, Higher Education