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Direct linkGöçen Kabaran, Güler – Issues in Educational Research, 2022
Academic writing, which allows scientific research to be shared with other researchers, has an important place in graduate education because individuals at this stage of education gain experience in their fields with their academic writing experiences and are referred to as field experts when their education has been completed. At this point,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Language, Writing (Composition), Graduate Students
Download full textKhaled el Houche – Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2023
This study sought to solve the puzzle of persistent occurrence of mechanical errors in pre-service primary school teachers' writings. Data consisted of short compositions from four intact classes (n=75) of second-year university students at the Higher Institute of Arts and Crafts of Tataouine (ISAMT), Tunisia. Results of data analysis revealed a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Elementary School Teachers
Uba, Sani Yantandu; Souidi, Nizar Mohammed – International Journal of Higher Education, 2020
This study investigates students' writing difficulties of English for business classes and the possible factors that might cause such difficulties. A corpus of forty essays of forty undergraduates was compiled. We adopted a textography approach to study writing practices. The results of the textual analysis informed an administration of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Difficulties, Business English, Undergraduate Students
Niño, Fernando López; Páez, Martha Elizabeth Varón – English Language Teaching, 2018
The present article is centered on the description and analysis of the process of action-research followed by a group of twenty eight fifth graders of primary level in a public school in Colombia who improved their writing ability in English as a Foreign Language through the application of several creativity writing strategies. Among those…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Instruction, Writing Skills, Second Language Learning
Tsai, Shu-Chiao – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2019
This study investigates the impact on extemporaneous English-language first drafts by using Google Translate (GT) in three different tasks assigned to Chinese sophomore, junior, and senior students of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) majoring in English. Students wrote first in Chinese (Step 1), then drafted corresponding texts in English (Step…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computer Software
Reima Saado Al-Jarf – Online Submission, 2021
This study reports 15 types of activities that EFL, linguistics and translation instructors at a sample of Saudi universities used in distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Examples include searching for linguistic and translation key terms and concepts, problem-solving questions, online debates, summarizing a research paper, attending a…
Descriptors: Translation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Bokyoung Park – English Teaching, 2017
This study investigated Korean college students' performance as measured by two different vocabulary assessment tools (the Productive Vocabulary Levels Test (PVLT) and the Productive Vocabulary Use Task (PVUT)) and the relationship these assessments have with students' writing proficiency. A total of 72 students participated in the study. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocabulary Development, Language Tests, Second Language Learning
Lincoln, Felicia; Ben Idris, Anisa – Journal of International Education Research, 2015
Research on the second writing process is not recent. Both first and second writing processes have been in the area of argument among scholars. It has been confirmed that both first and second writers nearly all practice similar physical activities pre-writing, during, and post writing stages; however, they still differ in the inner extra thinking…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Writing Instruction, Writing Skills, Process Approach (Writing)
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
Lynch, Collin F., Ed.; Merceron, Agathe, Ed.; Desmarais, Michel, Ed.; Nkambou, Roger, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2019
The 12th iteration of the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2019) is organized under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society in Montreal, Canada. The theme of this year's conference is EDM in Open-Ended Domains. As EDM has matured it has increasingly been applied to open-ended and ill-defined tasks…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Analysis, Information Retrieval, Content Analysis
Hurlow, Marcia – 1983
When students do not write well in stressful situations, traditional instruction such as grammar exercises, sentence combining, and imitation of sentences will not be especially useful. Students are not often aware of their linguistic insecurity or of how insecurity affects language usage. The writing lab, however, creates an ideal setting for…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Higher Education, Individual Instruction, Peer Evaluation
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1982
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 23 titles provide information on a variety of topics, including the following: (1) voice and the fictional narrative; (2) the effects of oral response groups before and after rough drafts on writing achievement and apprehension;…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Anxiety, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Secondary Education
Yoshida, Norman J. – ORTESOL Journal, 1983
Research into process-oriented writing instruction for native speakers of English can improve instruction in writing for students of English as a second language (ESL). Process-oriented instruction focuses on the processes of writing rather than on the finished product. A comparison of writing samples of native speakers from remedial courses and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English Instruction, English (Second Language), Error Patterns
