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AL Harrasi, Kothar Talib Sulaiman – Language Testing in Asia, 2023
Drawing upon research on the ways texts work as communication across different disciplines, this study investigated teacher and student feedback practices on three different patterns of writing: comparison-contrast essays, opinion essays, and cause-and-effect essays. The data were collected through three qualitative techniques: interviews, class…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Rhetoric, Essays
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Khaled ElEbyary; Ramy Shabara; Deena Boraie – Language Testing in Asia, 2024
Despite the plethora of studies on the role of noticing in second language learning, little is known about the role of AI-operated feedback in noticing errors and uptake "during" and "after" writing. To address this gap, this study primarily aimed to investigate the impact of feedback modes and timing on L2 students' noticing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Artificial Intelligence, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Talebinamvar, Mobina; Zarrabi, Forooq – Language Testing in Asia, 2022
Feedback is an essential component of learning environments. However, providing feedback in populated classes can be challenging for teachers. On the one hand, it is unlikely that a single kind of feedback works for all students considering the heterogeneous nature of their needs. On the other hand, delivering personalized feedback is infeasible…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Writing Evaluation, Writing (Composition), Learning Analytics
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Tadayon, Fereshteh; Ravand, Hamdollah – Language Testing in Asia, 2016
Background: Research studies (e.g., Phakiti, Language Testing 25(2):237-272, 2008a; Phakiti, Language Assessment Quarterly 5(1): 20-42, 2008b; Purpura, Learner strategy use and performance on language tests: a structural equation modeling approach, 1999) conducted on the construct validation of Bachman and Palmer's (1996) strategic competencehas…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Competence, Grounded Theory, Second Language Learning
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Chan, Sathena – Language Testing in Asia, 2017
Background: Integrated reading-into-writing tasks are increasingly used in large-scale language proficiency tests. Such tasks are said to possess higher authenticity as they reflect real-life writing conditions better than independent, writing-only tasks. However, to effectively define the reading-into-writing construct, more empirical evidence…
Descriptors: Keyboarding (Data Entry), Graduate Students, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Gustilo, Leah E. – Language Testing in Asia, 2013
The purpose of the pilot study, which is a part of a larger project on ESL writing involving freshmen college students in the Philippines, is to explore the relationship between writer's performance, writer's resources, and writer's idea generation process. To measure the writer's performance, diagnostic essays of 85 Filipino freshmen engineering…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Engineering Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Yang, Hui-Chun – Language Testing in Asia, 2012
The study compares EFL writers' processes in composing reading-based writing (RW) and graph-based writing (GW) tasks developed for a university English proficiency exam. Think-aloud protocols and interviews of ten university-level nonnative English-speaking writers were collected to explore writers' composing processes. The results revealed that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Writing (Composition)