This study explores the influence of feedback mode on learners' behavioral and affective engagement through a mixed method research design. Fourteen English as a foreign language (EFL) learners at a Turkish university performed four writing tasks (i.e., two essays and two reports) throughout an authentic seven-week distance foreign language (L2)…

This dissertation study sought to examine how the video mode of response, compared to the written mode, affects MLW students' writing development and how MLW students perceive the use of video response in their FYC classroom. To that end, this study drew upon a mixed method approach, combining a quasi-experiment and interview method. Participants…

In school, deaf and hard of hearing students (d/hh) are often exposed to American Sign Language (ASL) while also developing literacy skills in English. ASL does not have a written form, but is a fully accessible language to the d/hh through which it is possible to mediate understanding, draw on prior experiences, and engage critical thinking and…