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Schillings, Marlies; Roebertsen, Herma; Savelberg, Hans; Dolmans, Diana – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2023
Written feedback plays a key role in the acquisition of academic writing skills. Ideally, this feedback should include feed up, feed back and feed forward. However, written feedback alone is not enough to improve writing skills; students often struggle to interpret the feedback received and enhance their writing skills accordingly. Several studies…
Descriptors: Dialogs (Language), Writing Skills, Skill Development, Feedback (Response)
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Schillings, Marlies; Roebertsen, H.; Savelberg, H.; Whittingham, J.; Dolmans, D. – Educational Studies, 2020
Academic writing is a complex competence in higher education. To develop this competence, teachers' written feedback is vital, especially if it contains feed-up, feed-back and feed-forward information. However, academic writing does not always improve after provision of written feedback. The purpose of this study was to explore if peer-to-peer…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Teacher Student Relationship, Feedback (Response), Dialogs (Language)
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Butler, Brenna M.; Morrow, Jennifer Ann; Soblo, Hannah I.; Benson, Kirsten F. – CATESOL Journal, 2021
Competency in written and oral communication is viewed as important for graduate students to be competitive in academic and non-academic careers; however, writing and speaking support provided by graduate institutions is often limited. International graduate students (IGSs) in particular face challenges in disciplinary communication and research…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Written Language, Oral Language, Foreign Students
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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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Saeli, Hooman; Cheng, An – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée, 2019
This project firstly explored Iranian English as a foreign language (EFL) students' perceptions about written corrective feedback (WCF)-related practices and preferences. Secondly, the student participants' first language (L1; e.g., Farsi) learner identities were operationalized, especially focusing on the skill of writing, WCF, and…
Descriptors: Grammar, Error Correction, Feedback (Response), English (Second Language)
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Dyson, Anne Haas – Language Arts, 1987
Presents brief stories of two students that illustrate how children's symbolic interactions and social relationships (how they interact with materials and people) influence their ways of gaining control over the interrelated parts of written language, and how these "casts of mind" may eventually emerge more fully within their stories.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Development, Communication Skills, Interpersonal Competence