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Nguyen, Thi-Huyen; Hwang, Wu-Yuin; Pham, Xuan-Lam; Pham, Thao – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2022
Our study explored EFL writing skills in relation to self-experience in an authentic learning context with the help of a mobile application. Two authentic writing activities ('Tell your story' and 'Describe your context') were designed and compared to see if they resulted in significant differences in EFL writing performance and writing behavior.…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Marinov, Sanja – Teaching English with Technology, 2013
This paper focuses on planning a series of activities to train learners of undergraduate, non-philological studies in using a small specialised ad hoc corpus and the results they achieved in doing them. The procedure discussed in this paper is a part of a larger project which investigates the possibility of using a small specialised corpus with…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Undergraduate Students, English for Special Purposes, Tourism
Kelly, Leonard P.; Kerst, Stephen – 1989
In order to examine the differential availability of attention between the self-written text and standard text conditions, changes in error detection performance of unskilled hearing writers were compared with those of profoundly deaf writers. Subjects, 10 profoundly, pre-lingually deaf college freshmen with no additional handicaps and a…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Comparative Analysis, Deafness, Editing
Hull, Glynda A. – 1984
To determine how writers who differ in editing performance respond to operationally defined categories of errors in different kinds of written texts, a study asked novice and expert editors to correct and comment upon three kinds of error (consulting, intuiting, and comprehending) in two tasks (a self-written essay and three essays written by…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Editing, Error Patterns
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Daiute, Colette – Research in the Teaching of English, 1986
Contrasts the revising patterns of junior high school students when they used a word processor and pens and paper. Concludes that those who used a word processing program added more words to the ends of their texts and corrected more errors, but did not make more global text revisions than when they used a pen. (HOD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Editing, Grade 7
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Lutz, Jean A. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1987
Uses text processing (computer) and pen and paper protocols to compare the revising process of professional writers and experienced writers (PhD students). Concludes tentatively that (1) professional and experienced writers do not differ in their approach; (2) the interaction between human and machine influences the writing process; and (3) that…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Editing, Expository Writing