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Farahani, Ali Akbar Khomeijani; Nemati, Majid; Nazari Montazer, Mostafa – Language Testing in Asia, 2019
This study examines the distribution of peer review in face-to-face and mobile-mediated peer review groups and their effects on students' revision skills and academic writing development. Seventy-two first-year English for academic purposes (EAP) students participated in an 18-session IELTS academic writing course in a Canadian university the…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Peer Evaluation, English for Academic Purposes
Kennedy, Sara; Blanchet, Josée – Language Awareness, 2014
To be effective second or additional language (L2) listeners, learners should be aware of typical processes in connected L2 speech (e.g. linking). This longitudinal study explored how learners' developing ability to perceive connected L2 speech was related to the quality of their language awareness. Thirty-two learners of L2 French at a university…
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Metalinguistics, Diaries, Learning Experience
He, Ling; Shi, Ling – Language Testing, 2012
This study investigates the effects of topical knowledge on ESL (English as a Second Language) writing performance in the English Language Proficiency Index (LPI), a standardized English proficiency test used by many post-secondary institutions in western Canada. The participants were 50 students with different levels of English proficiency…
Descriptors: Writing Tests, Achievement Tests, Essays, Foreign Countries
Leo, Krista – TESL Canada Journal, 2012
This study examines how three age-on-arrival (AOA) groups of Chinese-background ESL students use two types of cohesive devices on a standardized essay exam. A discourse analysis of 90 first-year students' expository writing samples was conducted to ascertain how factors such as first language (L1) and length of residence (LOR) in Canada influence…
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Discourse Analysis
Wiebe, Sean; Guiney Yallop, John J. – Canadian Journal of Education, 2010
In this article, we invite readers into a conversation about ways of being in teaching. Through e-mails, telephone calls, and face-to-face meetings, we use our first conversations with each other as shared moments that we returned to, seeking to better understand how we made meaning in our individual school teaching careers, and how we continue to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching (Occupation), Hermeneutics, Reflective Teaching
Kim, Bo Sun; Darling, Linda Farr – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2009
This study was conducted in a Reggio inspired child care classroom of 4-year olds where the fundamental principles of Reggio Emilia preschools are interpreted for a Canadian context. Qualitative case study methodology was employed to investigate how social interaction plays a role in young children's learning processes. Drawing on social…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Interpersonal Relationship, Learning Processes, Reggio Emilia Approach
Nahachewsky, James; Ward, Angela – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2007
There is a continuing need to investigate how contemporary students in schools are writing the word, and their world, beyond modernist parameters of the page. This article explores the online writing of a senior English world literature class, located in a Western Canadian city, as examined through a recent qualitative case study. Borrowing a 17th…
Descriptors: Online Courses, English Instruction, Case Studies, World Literature
Gagne, Christina L.; Spalding, Thomas L. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2004
The present experiments investigate the influence of modifier relation frequency and discourse context on the interpretation of novel noun-noun phrases (as measured by both the ease of interpretation and the types of interpretations that are provided). We assess whether people access knowledge about the relations with which the modifier is…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Concept Formation, Nouns, Phrase Structure