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Ushba Rasool; Jiancheng Qian; Muhammad Zammad Aslam – SAGE Open, 2024
Language instructors worldwide use various types and strategies for providing feedback on the learners' written production. Written corrective feedback (WCF) plays a vital role in systematically learning second or other languages. Additionally, students' perception of feedback and its delivery has a specific value. Therefore, the current study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, College Students, High School Students
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Xuan, Winfred Wenhui; Zhang, Dongbing – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2023
The present study examines the ways Chinese high school EFL learners organize information in their writing. A class of 50 students at grade 9 from a local high school in Guangzhou, China, were recruited as participants. The students' writing at grade 9 was collected as a corpus, comprising ten writing tasks from different text types. In order to…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Li, Lexi Xiaoduo – Cogent Education, 2022
This study aims to examine how Chinese learners develop in their use and misuse of English modal verbs from Grade 7 to 9. Specifically, it examines form-function connections and explores the factors behind learners' development. The main focus is on the modal verbs "can," "could," "will," "would,"…
Descriptors: Verbs, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Native Language
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Xuan, Wenhui Winfred – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2018
While most of the L2 writing literature focuses on tertiary L2 writing, there is relatively scanty research conducted with adolescent L2 writers. The present study aims to explore Chinese adolescent L2 writing from the perspective of writing as meaning-making in systemic functional linguistics tradition. Drawing on the framework of process type…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Writing (Composition), Linguistics
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Tang, Mengmeng – Cogent Education, 2020
English and Chinese have typological differences in finiteness. English has morphological finite and nonfinite distinction, whereas Chinese has no morphological finiteness, and multiple verbs in a clause appear in the form of bare verbs with optional aspectual morphemes, such as the perfective morpheme "le". The current study explores…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Language Classification
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Zhong, Qin; Yan, Minwei; Zou, Fangfang – World Journal of Education, 2019
Teacher feedback is an essential part which can not be overlooked in English writing teaching. Whether teacher feedback is effective and which type of feedback is more effective in improving learners' writing proficiency have attracted more and more researchers' attention. Direct feedback is the feedback that teachers correct students' errors…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Feedback (Response), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Li, Jia; Han, Huamei – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2021
Based on a larger ethnography (Li, 2017. Social Reproduction and Migrant Education: A Critical Sociolinguistic Ethnography of Burmese Students' Learning Experiences at a Border High School in China. (PhD), Macquarie University. http://www.languageonthemove.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/LI_Jia_Social_reproduction_and_migrant_education.pdf) and…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Ethnography, Learning Experience, High School Students
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Xuan, Wenhui; Huang, Xue'e – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2017
Drawing on the framework of Modality from systemic functional linguistics, the present study aimed to explore adolescent ESL learners' interpersonal meaning-making. Data were collected from 10 writing tasks completed by a group of 50 adolescent ESL learners in China. Functional text analysis was utilized to analyze the data, including Modality…
Descriptors: High School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Tsai, Min-hsiu – Action in Teacher Education, 2012
This study investigates the consistency between human raters and an automated essay scoring system in grading high school students' English compositions. A total of 923 essays from 23 classes of 12 senior high schools in Taiwan (Republic of China) were obtained and scored manually and electronically. The results show that the consistency between…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Writing (Composition), Essays
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Pracana, Clara, Ed.; Wang, Michael, Ed. – Online Submission, 2017
We are delighted to welcome you to the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT) 2017, taking place in Budapest, Hungary, from 29 of April to 1 of May, 2017. Modern psychology offers a large range of scientific fields where it can be applied. The goal of understanding individuals and groups (mental functions and…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Anxiety, Cognitive Restructuring, Outcomes of Treatment