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Shireen Al-Adeimi – Reading Research Quarterly, 2025
While the merits of dialogic talk for supporting students' learning is well documented, the contribution of specific talk moves on learning outcomes remains less understood. This study was conducted to investigate how student-generated talk moves during whole-classroom discussions, as captured by the Low-Inference Discourse Observation tool,…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Writing (Composition), Dialogs (Language), Essays
Kullberg, Nina; Kiili, Carita; Bråten, Ivar; González-Ibáñez, Roberto; Leppänen, Paavo H. T. – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2023
This study examined students' ability to select relevant ideas from multiple online texts and integrate those ideas in their written products. Students (N = 162) used a web-based platform to complete an online inquiry task in which they read three texts presenting different perspectives on computer gaming and wrote an article for a school magazine…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 6, Writing (Composition), Reader Text Relationship
Ergül Sönmez, Esra; Urfali Dadandi, Pakize – Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Technology, 2023
Writing has a significant role in students' academic and lifelong learning. Therefore, educators constantly seek novel ways to develop students' writing skills. This study aims to examine the effect of digital storytelling on secondary school students' creative writing skills and writing self-efficacy. The participants were 15 6th grade students…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Technology Uses in Education, Writing Achievement, Grade 6
Matos, Flora – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
Converging evidence indicates that argumentative thinking and writing are promoted by peer discourse. Here it is proposed that collaborative writing can serve as a bridge from peer discourse to individual argumentative writing. Three groups of sixth graders participated in a study that tested this hypothesis. Two of the groups took part in a…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Peer Relationship, Persuasive Discourse, Dialogs (Language)
Achu Charles Tante – International Online Journal of Primary Education, 2024
The present study had two research questions to investigate whole-class promotion in primary school and pupils' achievement in literacy. The study adopted the cross-sectional survey research design. The target population was composed of all teachers and pupils in primary schools in Fako Division, in Cameroon, while the accessible population was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Grade 5
Türkben, Tuncay – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2021
This study was conducted to investigate the effect of education based on Self-Regulation Strategy Development Model on the writing skills development of 6th grade (middle school) students. In this study, a pretest-post-test, quasi-experimental method with control group was used. The sample of the study consists of 60 students enrolled in two…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Self Control, Writing Skills, Middle School Students
Tania Maria Cruz Cordero – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Writing motivation has been deemed a critical aspect of the writing process because motivation affects how students engage with the writing process, how much effort and time they exert in the tasks, and the quality of their written products (Graham, 2018). Writing motivation has been the focus of recent studies on how to improve the discouraging…
Descriptors: Writing Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Writing Processes, Learner Engagement
Truckenmiller, Adrea; Shen, Mei; Sweet, Lake E. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
The current study explores the contributions of written vocabulary and syntax to informational writing quality in Grades 5 through 8. Various aspects of language skills (receptive to written, oral register to academic register) have differing relationships with narrative and informational writing achievement across development. In this study, we…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Vocabulary, Syntax, Writing (Composition)
Regan, Kelley; Evmenova, Anya S.; Hughes, Melissa D.; Rybicki-Newman, Maria P.; Gafurov, Boris; Mastropieri, Margo A. – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2021
Struggling writers including students with disabilities (SWD) need instructional strategies to support their ability to write independently. Integrating technology-mediated instruction to support student writing can mitigate students' challenges throughout the writing process and personalize instruction. In the present group design study, teachers…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Writing Instruction, Writing Strategies, Students with Disabilities
Graham, Steve; Harbaugh-Schattenkirk, Allen G.; Aitken, A. Angelique; Harris, Karen R.; Ng, Clarence; Wilson, John M.; Wdowin, Jeanne – Educational Psychology Review, 2023
This study examined the factorial and construct validity of a multi-dimensional measure of motives for writing with middle school students. The Writing Motivation Questionnaire included 28 items assessing seven motives for writing. Two motives assessed intrinsic reasons for writing (curiosity, involvement); three motives addressed extrinsic…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Questionnaires, Factor Structure, Test Validity
Lindner, Amanda L.; Wijekumar, Kausalai; Joshi, R. Malatesha – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2022
The depth of the English orthography makes reading and spelling in English a difficult task; particularly for English language learners (ELLs) whose first language (L1) has a shallow orthography. Mastering spelling in English is a critical component of increasing the English literacy of ELLs. This study investigated the English spelling of 569…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Spelling, Writing Achievement
Chung, Huy Q.; Chen, Vicky; Olson, Carol Booth – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
Writing on-demand, text-based analytical essays is a challenging skill to master. Novice writers, such as the sixth grade US students in this study, may lack background knowledge of how to compose an effective essay, the self-efficacy skills, and the goal setting skills that will help with completing this task in accomplished ways. This sequential…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Individuals), Planning, Goal Orientation, Reflection
Cordeiro, Carolina; Magalhães, Sofia; Nunes, Andreia; Olive, Thierry; Castro, São Luís; Limpo, Teresa – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2022
Writing is a complex task that requires the activation and coordination of several processes. In addition to the research on the domain-specific factors that contribute to school achievement, there is an increasing interest on general variables, such as mindfulness. Here, we aimed to test the contribution of middle-grade students' trait…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Writing Achievement, Prediction, Executive Function
Donagriche, Vincent Phillip – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Many of today's students are lacking fundamental skills of literacy and writing that are needed to successfully meet academic requirements in order to graduate, leaving students inadequately prepared for the technological demands of the modern workforce, which relies on the frequent utilization of various forms of cloud-based productivity tools to…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Access to Computers, Middle School Students, Socioeconomic Status
Correnti, Richard; Matsumura, Lindsay Clare; Wang, Elaine; Litman, Diane; Rahimi, Zahra; Kisa, Zahid – Reading Research Quarterly, 2020
Despite the importance of analytic text-based writing, relatively little is known about how to teach to this important skill. A persistent barrier to conducting research that would provide insight on best practices for teaching this form of writing is a lack of outcome measures that assess students' analytic text-based writing development and that…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Writing Tests, Computer Assisted Testing, Scoring