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Sowell, Jimalee – MEXTESOL Journal, 2020
The student-teacher conference has been established as a pedagogical tool in composition courses, and teachers and students typically view the student-teacher writing conference as an effective way of providing feedback. However, most previous research on conferencing has been carried out with first language (L1) writers or advanced multilingual…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Teacher Student Relationship, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction
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Khan, Mohammad Imran; Hameed, Paiker Fatima Mazhar – TESOL International Journal, 2021
The exponential rise in social networking sites in COVID-19 pandemic increased interest in them in terms of pedagogical value. Social networking tools like wiki have been suggested to allow shared and interactive online learning. This study examined the role of wikis in fostering mutual writing standards among Saudi EFL learners. Students from a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Writing Skills
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Garcia-Echeverry, Adriana; Novozhenina, Alexandra – HOW, 2023
This qualitative research project aims to determine the impact that Task-Based Instruction had on fifteen Intermediate English language students´ writing skills in online classes at a private institute in Cartagena. A journal, a questionnaire, and a checklist were used as instruments to collect information during the diagnostic stage. During the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Check Lists
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Lim, Jungmin; Tigchelaar, Magda; Polio, Charlene – Language Awareness, 2022
Numerous studies of written language development have shown minimal improvement over the course of an instructional period, yet these solely text-based studies offer little explanation for the lack of changes in writers' language because little is reported about the classroom and the participants. The purpose of this study is to use goal theory to…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English for Academic Purposes, Writing Skills
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Mirzaeian, Vahid R. – The EUROCALL Review, 2021
Although the field of machine translation has witnessed huge improvements in recent years, its potentials have not been fully exploited in other interdisciplinary areas such as foreign language teaching. The aim of this paper, therefore, is to report an experiment in which this technology was employed to teach a foreign language to a group of…
Descriptors: Translation, Computational Linguistics, Error Correction, Phrase Structure
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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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Teng, Mark Feng – Language Learning Journal, 2020
This study measured the effectiveness of three tasks (cloze, editing and writing) on the learning of phrasal verbs for students learning English as a foreign language (EFL). A total of 72 low-to-intermediate EFL learners were recruited. This study employed pre- and post-test designs. The performance of the learners who completed the three tasks…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Metacognition, Grammar, Teaching Methods
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George, Patricia – International TESOL Journal, 2022
This study employed a qualitative approach to examining the rhetorical value of multimodal composing practices among first-year college students with diverse academic, sociocultural, and linguistic backgrounds. With a shift to remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, this study sought instructional methods that would support the development…
Descriptors: Multiple Literacies, Teaching Methods, Online Courses, Writing Skills
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Chiu, Calli Lewis; Carrero, Kelly M.; Lusk, Mandy E. – Beyond Behavior, 2017
Research suggests that teachers often do not adequately prepare students with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD) to utilize organizational structures and basic writing skills that are necessary to produce cohesive essays. Among the challenges of effectively teaching writing to secondary students with EBD is how to deliver culturally…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Writing Instruction, Secondary School Students, Emotional Disturbances
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Grünke, Matthias; Leonard-Zabel, Ann Marie – International Journal of Special Education, 2015
The purpose of this paper is to give an overview of the current research involving composition writing with respect to students experiencing difficulties. It responds to the fact that composition writing is a largely neglected area in education and research. This paper will review the following: (a) the reasons why writing competence is so vitally…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), College Students, Writing Skills, Writing Difficulties
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Ebadi, Saman; Rahimi, Masoud – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2017
This article reports the results of a sequential explanatory mixed-methods approach to explore the impact of online peer-editing using Google Docs and peer-editing in a face-to-face classroom on EFL learners' academic writing skills. As the study adopted a quasi-experimental design, two intact classes, each with ten EFL learners, attending an…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing Skills
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Faraj, Avan Kamal Aziz – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
This research reports a study conducted at Koya University/English Language Department, and it aims at presenting the effect of scaffolding on EFL students' writing ability through the writing process. In this study, the students have taken the role of writers, so they need to follow the same steps that writers apply during their writing process.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Pretests Posttests
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Fattah, Said Fathy El Said Abdul – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
The present study was an attempt to determine the effectiveness of using a WhatsApp Messenger as one of mobile learning techniques to develop students' writing skills. Participants were 30 second year college students, English department from a private university in Saudi Arabia. The experimental group (N = 15) used WhatsApp technology to develop…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Computer Oriented Programs, Educational Technology, Teaching Methods
Hess, Maria – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This executive position paper proposes recommendations for the development of editing workshops and editing training for adjunct faculty of Wilmington University. An editing workshop was developed and taught to two groups of adjunct instructors at Wilmington University. Surveys distributed to the adjuncts after the workshops provide relevant data…
Descriptors: Adjunct Faculty, Writing Skills, Workshops, Editing
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Al Khateeb, Ahmed A. – Teaching English with Technology, 2013
This paper presents the pre-and-post-reflections of English language instructors concerning the incorporation of a new pedagogy in English as foreign language (EFL) writing classes in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This approach is to integrate and blend wiki-mediated writing into a different course plan, with tasks that fit with the normal syllabi…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Teaching Methods
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