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Peer reviewedBowers, Roy – TESL-EJ, 1995
Biologists at Center for Biological Research found ways to improve their scientific writing without benefit of an English-language program. By tapping Internet biology forums for comprehensible input, and using computer-assisted retention strategy to profit from error correction, writing improved. Scientific dialog on Internet has helped group…
Descriptors: Biology, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Mediated Communication, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedMyers, Sharon – TESL-EJ, 1997
Based on English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) students' documented preference for error correction and the need for word usage and sentence grammar to become automatic, this article describes the rationale and procedures for using reformulation as composition feedback. The procedures are aimed at improving sentence level grammar. Discusses survey…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Error Correction, Feedback, Grammar
