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Direct linkYumei Zou; Sathiamoorthy Kannan; Gurnam Kaur Sidhu – SAGE Open, 2024
Task design has been viewed to be essential in the context of language assessment. This study investigated whether increasing task complexity affects learners' writing performance. It employs three writing tasks with different levels of complexity based on Robinson's Componential Framework. A cohort of 278 participants was selected using a simple…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, College Students, Foreign Countries, Writing Achievement
Liu, Pei-Lin; Ginting, Anza Mei Gani; Chen, Chiu-Jung; Yeh, Hui-Chin – SAGE Open, 2022
In the Taiwan EFL context particularly, little attention has been given to investigating the effects of wikis on EFL writing performance. Therefore, this study suggests a wiki-based collaborative writing activity in the writing process of creative English writing. In addition, the students' perceptions of wiki collaborative writing were also…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Collaborative Writing
Barbara Wing Yee Siu; Muhammad Afzaal; Hessah Saleh Aldayel; Samantha Curle – SAGE Open, 2024
This study examines the use of lexical bundles in reports produced by university-level L2 English writers in civil and environmental engineering (CEE). The corpus consists of 119 reports, and the study compares the use of different types of lexical bundles (3-word, 4-word, and 5-word) in high-scoring and low-scoring papers. The results show that…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Writing (Composition), Phrase Structure, Language Usage
Tsao, Jui-Jung; Tseng, Wen-Ta; Hsiao, Tsung-Yuan; Wang, Chaochang; Gao, Andy Xuesong – SAGE Open, 2021
Research has shown that the effectiveness of written corrective feedback (WCF) on writing performance depends on learners' engagement with WCF and its associated motivational state. However, little research has examined the inner causal relationships between motivation, learner engagement with WCF, and writing performance. The current study fills…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Learner Engagement, Models, English (Second Language)
He, Tung-hsien – SAGE Open, 2019
This study applied the structural equation modeling (SEM) technique to explore the predictive relations among personality facets, writing strategy use, and writing performance of college students learning English as a foreign language (EFL). In total, 201 participants composed an argument-based essay, before being surveyed using two self-report…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Writing Strategies, Writing Achievement, College Students
Sabti, Ahmed Abdulateef; Md Rashid, Sabariah; Nimehchisalem, Vahid; Darmi, Ramiza – SAGE Open, 2019
Previous studies have examined learner factors such as anxiety, self-efficacy, and achievement motivation in ESL/EFL (English as a second language/English as a foreign language) writing. Studies have affirmed that self-efficacy and achievement motivation could enhance writing performance, whereas anxiety may hinder writing achievement. This study…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Writing Achievement, Self Efficacy, Foreign Countries
