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Li, Miao; Chan, Jessica; Kirby, John R. – Annals of Dyslexia, 2023
Summary writing is an important tactic for learning from text and the summaries provide information on students' comprehension and learning processes. We investigated the nature of the summaries produced by bilingual adolescents, and whether their summaries were related to their reading abilities in their first and second languages. In each…
Descriptors: Writing Achievement, Bilingual Students, Reading Difficulties, Decoding (Reading)
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Chengchen Li; Li Wei; Xiaojun Lu – Modern Language Journal, 2024
The study investigated the effect of task complexity (TC) on second language (L2) learners' affective responses and writing performance and how these were modulated by cognitive and affective individual difference (ID) factors. A total of 412 Chinese 8th-grade English-as-a-foreign-language learners completed a working memory (WM) test, a scale…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Middle School Students, Grade 8, Foreign Countries
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Yeung, Pui-sze; Ho, Connie Suk-han; Chan, David Wai-ock; Chung, Kevin Kien-hoa – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
This study examined the relationships between writing motivation and written composition performance in Chinese among 388 Chinese children in Grades 3 to 5 in accordance with the framework of self-determination theory. Multiple regression analysis results showed that writing motivation measures (external regulation, introjected regulation,…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Writing (Composition), Writing Achievement, Grade 3
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Hao, Hongxia; Razali, Abu Bakar – English Language Teaching, 2022
English writing plays a vital role in language teaching and learning and is compulsory in Chinese secondary education. Chinese EFL junior high school students need to master English writing. However, in the process of English writing teaching and learning, the Chinese EFL students still face problems in writing ability and self-efficacy even…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
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Wu, Shuang; Quentin Dixon, L.; Sun, Haitao; Zhang, Peng – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
This study examines the relationship between developing writer's vocabulary breadth, vocabulary depth, and writing abilities. Participants were EFL Chinese junior-high students, of whom there were 120 Grade 8 and 147 Grade 9 students. Measures included tests of vocabulary size, word association, and morphological awareness. Students' writing…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Expressive Language, Receptive Language, English (Second Language)
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Butler, Yuko Goto – Research Papers in Education, 2014
As English has increasingly become associated with social and economic power in the context of globalisation, there has been a growing concern regarding achievement gaps in English that appear to be correlated to learners' socio-economic status (SES). The present study aims to examine how parents' SES and their behaviours and beliefs about English…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, English, English (Second Language)