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Purba, Rodearta – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2018
The objective of this study is to find out whether discussion starter story significantly improves the achievement on narrative text of the first grade students of Senior High School. This study was conducted by applying Classroom Action Research (CAR). The subject of this study is the first grade students of SMA Negeri 2 Pangururan in academic…
Descriptors: Writing Improvement, Writing Instruction, Pretests Posttests, Interviews
Franco-Camargo, Lubin Fernando; Camacho-Vásquez, Gonzalo – English Language Teaching, 2018
ICT role in education nowadays is not only important, but also effective; its advancement allows a vast opportunity to be explored by EFL teachers into the EFL classroom. This action-research study envisioned and carried out from our teaching practice basis with English language B1 level students at Weisheit institute. Observation and instruments…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Collaborative Writing, Web Sites
Attali, Yigal – Language Testing, 2016
A short training program for evaluating responses to an essay writing task consisted of scoring 20 training essays with immediate feedback about the correct score. The same scoring session also served as a certification test for trainees. Participants with little or no previous rating experience completed this session and 14 trainees who passed an…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Writing Tests, Standardized Tests, Evaluators
Butvilofsky, Sandra A.; Hopewell, Susan; Escamilla, Kathy; Sparrow, Wendy – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2017
The purpose of this single-subject longitudinal study was to examine the Spanish and English biliterate development of U.S. Latino Spanish/English speaking students, who we call emerging bilingual students, as they participated in an innovative biliteracy instructional program titled Literacy Squared®. Findings indicate that across the three years…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Hispanic American Students, Longitudinal Studies, Emergent Literacy
Asrobi, Maman; Prasetyaningrum, Ari – English Language Teaching, 2017
This study was conducted in order to investigate the effectiveness of trait based assessment on teaching writing skill for EFL learners. Designed as pre-experimental study with one group pretest and posttest design, it examined 20 students of the second semester of English Department of "Hamzanwadi University" in the academic year…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing Skills
Steedle, Jeffrey; Quesen, Sarah; Boyd, Aimee – Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, 2017
On the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) assessments, the attainment of performance level 4 is intended to indicate college readiness or being "on track" to college and career readiness. Students who achieve Level 4 should have a 0.75 probability of attaining at least a C in entry-level,…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, Test Validity, Longitudinal Studies
Al-Naibi, Is'haq; Maryem Al-Jabri; Al-Kalbani, Iman – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2018
This paper reports the findings of an action research that was carried out to measure the effectiveness of integrating a social networking website "Edmodo" in students' writing performance in an EFL classroom at Arab Open University (Oman Branch). The participants were 25 students studying English in the Foundation Programme. Along with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Leithwood, Kenneth; Sun, Jingping – Journal of Educational Administration, 2018
Purpose: This study is a quantitative exploration of a new construct the authors label as "academic culture (AC)." Treating it as generalized latent variable composed of academic press (AP), disciplinary climate (DC), and teachers' use of instructional time, the purpose of this paper is to explore the potential of this construct to be a…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Learning Processes, Academic Achievement, Socioeconomic Status
Cultivating Undergraduates' Plagiarism Avoidance Knowledge and Skills with an Online Tutorial System
Liu, Gi-Zen; Lu, Hui-Ching; Lin, Vivien; Hsu, Wei-Chen – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2018
With the increased use of digital materials, undergraduate writers in English as a foreign language (EFL) contexts have become more susceptible to plagiarism. In this study, the researchers designed a blended English writing course with an online writing tutorial system entitled "DWright." The study examined the effectiveness of the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Plagiarism, Prevention, Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Fontiveros-Malana, Maribel – Journal of English as an International Language, 2018
This research investigated on the first language interference in learning the English language among three cultural groups -- the Ilocano, the Ibanag, and the Itawes. The subject of the study were sixty sophomore students from the College of Education and the College of Business Entrepreneurship, and Accountancy who are officially enrolled at…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Interference (Language), Undergraduate Students
Buzick, Heather; Oliveri, Maria Elena; Attali, Yigal; Flor, Michael – Applied Measurement in Education, 2016
Automated essay scoring is a developing technology that can provide efficient scoring of large numbers of written responses. Its use in higher education admissions testing provides an opportunity to collect validity and fairness evidence to support current uses and inform its emergence in other areas such as K-12 large-scale assessment. In this…
Descriptors: Essays, Learning Disabilities, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Scoring
Cannady, Rachel E.; Gallo, Kasia Z. – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2016
Writing is an important teaching and learning tool that fosters active and critical thinking. There are multiple pressures for disciplines outside the humanities and social sciences to integrate writing in their courses. The shift from teaching solely discipline-specific skills to including writing in a meaningful way can be a daunting process. An…
Descriptors: Writing Exercises, Reflection, Active Learning, Critical Thinking
Mitchell, Melissa Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The main purpose of this study was to see the effect of a Balanced Literacy program on the students' academic achievement (the 8th Grade NYS ELA exams) between the years of 2005, 2006, and 2007. This study analyzed the effects of Balanced Literacy on student achievement scores at the 8th grade level. In addition, the effect of teacher's training…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Academic Achievement, Grade 8, Literacy
Dulin, Cassandra Mollring – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This study surveys the learning characteristics of non-traditional students aged 24 years and older. Since the California State University (CSU) system enrolls a significant non-traditional student demographic, understanding the needs of this student base is a critical component to its success. This dissertation seeks to gain a deeper…
Descriptors: State Universities, Nontraditional Students, College Students, Writing Evaluation
Farahian, Majid; Avarzamani, Farnaz – Cogent Education, 2018
The present study seeks to investigate the role of portfolios in EFL (English as a Foreign Language) writers' metacognition as well as their writing skill. Therefore, the participants were assigned to two groups (experimental and control). The students in both groups received a writing test, a researcher-made Metacognitive Writing Questionnaire…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Portfolio Assessment, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)