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Sutrisno, Adi – English Language Teaching Educational Journal, 2019
The patterns of paragraph writing as commonly used in the international journal are deemed necessary to be studied by scholars of non-English background wishing to write an article for publication in the international journals. Scholars of non-English speaking background, according to a number of research reports on rhetoric contrastive, have a…
Descriptors: Journal Articles, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Contrastive Linguistics
Wu, Ting-Ting – Interactive Learning Environments, 2016
Learning English by reading articles on multimedia e-book devices can assist students in improving their vocabulary and in understanding the associations among vocabulary, textual meaning, and paragraph composition. Adaptive integration of reading technologies and strategies not only strengthens their language ability and reading comprehension,…
Descriptors: Diaries, Electronic Publishing, Reading Comprehension, Guidance
Liu, Donghong; Huang, Jing – SAGE Open, 2021
Recent scholarship on Chinese students' English expository essays tends to blur or mitigate the differences between English and Chinese writings. This alleged convergence of English and Chinese rhetorical norms gives rise to a view that rhetorical aspects in second language writing instruction and research in China should be de-emphasized. Drawing…
Descriptors: Essays, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Donley, Michael – English Language Teaching Journal, 1976
The use of the paragraph is recommended in teaching composition, provided that heuristic rather than mechanical techniques are used. Some such techniques for advanced level teaching are discussed. (RM)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Instruction, Paragraph Composition, Second Language Learning
Al-Dera, Abdullah Saad – Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2011
Despite many ELT experts' opinions that while teaching a foreign language one should not use the mother tongue in the classroom, new researches show that sparing use of the mother tongue can be effective for the L2 learners. It is true that the 6- year compulsory English education of the school graduates of Saudi Arabia is not quite up to the…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Usage, Graduates, English Departments
Aisah Apridayani; Wei Han; Kanyanat Sakkanayok – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2024
Despite the critical role of academic English writing proficiency in higher education, existing research has inadequately addressed the comparative impact of teacher-led and student-involved assessments on writing outcomes. To address the research gap, this study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of 'Teacher-Only Assessment' compared to…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Writing Skills, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Second Language Learning
Wiboonwachara, Lalida; Charubusp, Sasima – rEFLections, 2022
In an EFL context, writing in English is often considered challenging for second language learners. Previous studies (Khumphee & Yodkamlue, 2017; Owu-Ewie & Williams, 2017; Richard & Renandya, 2002) suggest that a lack of sufficient cognitive and rhetorical skills for generating ideas and producing coherent compositions can be one of…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Writing Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Ahmad, Zulfiqar – Online Submission, 2017
Using needs analysis as a research methodology, this study attempted to design a 20 hour academic writing (AW) course for Level 2 Foundation Year Saudi EFL students. Needs analysis was based on a diagnostic test, structured questionnaires, and researcher's observation to obtain information on students' language and skills needs, profile, levels of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Academic Language
Pham, Duc Huu – International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments, 2019
To help EFL learners realize the use of nominals and clauses in practicing productive skills of academic writing in English writing tests, experiments have been exploited using the tasks similar to those of internet-based test of English as a foreign language to determine the nominal and clause level information during sentence and paragraph…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Writing Skills, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Kim, Ha Ram; Bowles, Melissa – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2019
This research compares how second language learners process two types of written feedback: reformulation and direct correction. On a two-stage composition-and-comparison task, 22 adult learners of English as a second language taking an academic writing course at a large midwestern U.S. university participated in a repeated-measures study in which…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Feedback (Response), Written Language, Error Correction
Kurzer, Kendon – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2018
This study investigated the role of dynamic written corrective feedback (DWCF; Evans, Hartshorn, McCollum, & Wolfersberger, 2010; Hartshorn & Evans, 2015; Hartshorn et al., 2010), a mode of providing specific, targeted, and individualized grammar feedback in developmental English as a second language (ESL) writing classes (pre-first year…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Feedback (Response), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Ma'azi, Halaleh; Janfeshan, Kamran – Cogent Education, 2018
The primary purpose of this study was to explore the effect of Edmodo social learning network on Iranian learners' writing skill. It also attempted to find out students' attitudes toward Edmodo. Forty participants were randomly divided into two experimental and control groups. For both groups, at first a test of writing as a pre-test was run to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Networks, Social Media, Computer Uses in Education
Williams, Clay – TESOL International Journal, 2018
To date, very little research on L2 peer review of L2 essay composition has focused on the issue of whether the choice of L1 or L2 use in the peer review process facilitates or hinders students' transmission and reception of productive commentary on their essay drafts. This study was designed to ascertain the impact of language choice in written…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing (Composition), Essays
Juriah – Dinamika Ilmu, 2015
The purposes of this study was to know how (1) Controlled composition teaching techniques implemented by the English teacher at SDN 027 Samarinda to improve vocabulary mastery, and (2) Controlled composition teaching techniques improves vocabulary mastery of the sixth grade students of SDN 027 Samarinda. This research used a Classroom Action…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Phoocharoensil, Supakorn; Moore, Benjamin; Gampper, Chanika; Geerson, Edward B.; Chaturongakul, Panna; Sutharoj, Siripen; Carlon, William T. – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2016
English grammar and lexis seem to be among the most problematic areas in second language (L2) acquisition. A good number of past studies have investigated English learners' different kinds of errors, using a variety of elicitation techniques, such as a translation task, a grammaticality judgment task, a role play, an essay, etc. The current study…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency