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Qing Liu; Zhiying Zhong; John C. Nesbit – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Argumentation is a complex intellectual skill essential for academic achievement in a range of scholarly disciplines. Argumentative writing demands effective coordination of language use, reasoning processes, and background knowledge about a given topic. It is a cognitively challenging activity, especially for students learning English as a…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Prewriting, Writing Instruction
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Hafour, Marwa F.; Al-Rashidy, Al-Shaimaa M. – JALT CALL Journal, 2020
This study examined the impact of storyboarding-based collaborative narrative writing using Google Docs on EFL learners' writing fluency, syntactic complexity, and overall performance. For this purpose, a cohort of 30 EFL college learners was selected and exposed to a nine-week intervention where they collaboratively wrote storyboarding-based…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, College Students
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Hung, Bui Phu; Van, Le Thi – International Journal of Instruction, 2018
Pre-writing stage has been considered very significant as it enhances writing performance in that learners can have discussions with the teacher and/or their peers. They can also outline and organize their ideas individually to prepare themselves for writing. This study investigated the effects of using pictures and interactions in the pre-writing…
Descriptors: Prewriting, Writing Strategies, Visual Aids, Photography
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Lorenz, Barbara; Green, Tim; Brown, Abbie – Computers in the Schools, 2009
The use of multimedia graphic organizer software and how it influenced the prewriting process for primary school children were evaluated. An analysis of writing samples generated by second-grade students with diverse writing abilities was carried out. Students were given two opportunities to participate in prewriting activities--one without and…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Prewriting, Grade 2, Computer Software
Brown, Marjorie – Online Submission, 2011
Writing at the high school level requires higher cognitive and literacy skills. Educators must decide the strategies best suited for the varying skills of each process. Compounding this issue is the need to instruct students with learning disabilities. Writing for students with learning disabilities is a struggle at minimum; teachers have to find…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Instructional Materials, Process Approach (Writing), Special Education
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Lee, Chien Ching; Tan, Seng Chee – Educational Media International, 2010
This paper aims to find out two outcomes of feedback in the novice writers' graphic organizers, which are the novice writers' ability to align their ideas to their writing goal, and their perceived germane, metacognitive, extraneous and intrinsic cognitive loads when generating and revising ideas based on the feedback. Data was gathered from the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Feedback (Response), Media Selection, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)