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Tipaya Peungcharoenkun; Budi Waluyo – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Literacy Association of South Africa, 2024
Background: Research in the field of writing pedagogy within higher education has extensively examined the significant roles that feedback plays in the development of students' writing skills. However, comparative studies that investigate the efficacy of teacher-provided written and oral feedback, both with and without the aid of technology,…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Higher Education, Feedback (Response), Technology Uses in Education
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He, Yi – Arab World English Journal, 2022
This paper is part of the researcher's Ph.D. thesis to deploy and develop the potential of genre-based pedagogy of systemic functional linguistics to support business-major English language learners' development of persuasive strategies in the written discourse of online advertisement. Given the "value" of netvertisement in motivating…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Persuasive Discourse
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Ho, Pham Vu Phi; Phung, Luong Thi Kim; Oanh, Tran Thi Thuy; Giao, Nguyen Quang – International Journal of Instruction, 2020
Many studies in literature have compared peer e-feedback/comments to traditional peer feedback/comments to see whether one medium of providing feedback should replace the other. However, few studies investigated to see whether two modes of commentary activities positively affected the students' writing quality, instead of just comparing one to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Peer Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Computer Mediated Communication
Xiaorong Wang – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This qualitative case study examines learners' experiences in the development of written complexities during Discussion Board (DB) assignments in an Advanced university level Chinese class. Discussion Board was chosen as the avenue for written complexity development because it provides learners a supplementary space with additional time and…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Chinese, Second Language Learning
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Johnson, Genevieve – International Journal on E-Learning, 2016
Technology often mediates, and thus influences, written language conventions such as punctuation and capitalization. Fifty university students sent two text messages, one with an alphanumeric multi-press keypad mobile phone (i.e., Nokia 1101) and another with a full QWERTY keypad smartphone (i.e., Apple iPhone 4). Compared to text messages sent…
Descriptors: College Students, Handheld Devices, Written Language, Telecommunications
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Paul, Jing Z.; Friginal, Eric – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2019
This study investigated the effects of Facebook and Twitter on foreign language (Chinese) learners' written production in both short- (10 days) and long-term (50 days) pseudo-experimental settings. Adopting two concepts (i.e. symmetric vs. asymmetric) from matrix theory in social network analysis, we categorized Facebook as a symmetric social…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Second Language Learning, Network Analysis, Sentences
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Geertsema, Salomé; Hyman, Charene; van Deventer, Chantelle – South African Journal of Education, 2011
SMS language is English language slang, used as a means of mobile phone text messaging. This practice may impact on the written language skills of learners at school. The main aim of this study was to determine the perspectives of Grade 8 and 9 English (as Home Language) educators in Gauteng regarding the possible influence of SMS language on…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Written Language, Telecommunications, Computer Mediated Communication
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Fitze, Michael – Language Learning & Technology, 2006
This study was a comparative investigation of face-to-face and written electronic conferences. The participants were advanced English as a second language (hereafter: ESL) students. The two types of conferences were compared in terms of textual features and participation. There was no statistically significant difference in the total number of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Comparative Analysis, Advanced Students
Gonzalez-Bueno, Manuela; Perez, Luisa – 2001
The interest in the effects of computer-mediated communication on language learning has increased in recent years. It is asserted by proponents that use of e-mail in second language learning promotes more effective discourse management, the use of more foreign language functions, and greater levels of student participation. E-mail puts learners in…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Uses in Education, Dialog Journals, Electronic Mail