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Download full textCharpentier-Jiménez, William – Online Submission, 2020
This article studies students' use of sentence variety in an ESL writing course. The study includes three sentence features: (a) sentence types, (b) sentence combining, and (c) sentence patterns. Although sentence variety is part of the curriculum, the actual use of sentence structures has not been measured so far. By understanding students' use…
Descriptors: Sentence Structure, Writing Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Arévalo, María-José; Cantera, María Asun; García-Marina, Vanessa; Alves-Castro, Marian – Education Sciences, 2021
Although Error Analysis (EA) has been broadly used in Foreign Language and Mother Tongue learning contexts, it has not been applied in the field of engineering and by STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) students in a systematic way. In this interdisciplinary pilot study, we applied the EA methodology to a wide corpus of…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Instructional Design, Essays, Computational Linguistics
Allen, Laura K.; Likens, Aaron D.; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2017
The current study examined the degree to which the quality and characteristics of students' essays could be modeled through dynamic natural language processing analyses. Undergraduate students (n = 131) wrote timed, persuasive essays in response to an argumentative writing prompt. Recurrent patterns of the words in the essays were then analyzed…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Essays, Persuasive Discourse, Natural Language Processing
Direct linkGoh, Tiong-Thye; Sun, Hui; Yang, Bing – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2020
This study investigates the extent to which microfeatures -- such as basic text features, readability, cohesion, and lexical diversity based on specific word lists -- affect Chinese EFL writing quality. Data analysis was conducted using natural language processing, correlation analysis and stepwise multiple regression analysis on a corpus of 268…
Descriptors: Essays, Writing Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Al-Hamad, Raghda F.; Al-Jamal, Dina A. H.; Bataineh, Ruba F. – Digital Education Review, 2019
This paper examines the potential effectiveness of MALL for developing teens' writing performance. The results reveal substantial improvement in content and ideas, organization and mechanics, vocabulary, and language use in favor of the experimental groups (viz. Smart Teens and Amazing Teens).
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Bailey, Daniel; Lee, Andrea Rakushin – TESOL International Journal, 2020
Different genres of writing entail various levels of syntactic and lexical complexity, and how this complexity influences the results of Automatic Writing Evaluation (AWE) programs like Grammarly in second language (L2) writing is unknown. This study explored the use of Grammarly in the L2 writing context by comparing error frequency, error types…
Descriptors: Grammar, Computer Assisted Instruction, Error Correction, Feedback (Response)
Hassan, Hassan Mahill Abdallah; Uddin, Mohammad Kamal; Akhtar, Rana Muhammad Nadeem – Online Submission, 2019
This paper aims to investigate the extent to which teachers can play an effective role to develop students' writing skills through classroom interaction at the Arab Countries Universities. The researcher has adopted the qualitative method as well as the test as a tool for collecting data relevant to the study. It is an attempt to highlight the…
Descriptors: Role, Arabs, Writing Skills, Classroom Communication
