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Vázquez-Cano, Esteban; Mengual-Andrés, Santiago; López-Meneses, Eloy – International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 2021
The objective of this article is to analyze the didactic functionality of a chatbot to improve the results of the students of the National University of Distance Education (UNED / Spain) in accessing the university in the subject of Spanish Language. For this, a quasi-experimental experiment was designed, and a quantitative methodology was used…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Artificial Intelligence, Punctuation, Spanish
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Orcasitas-Vicandi, María – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
In this article, we compare holistic, analytic and cross-linguistic measures of assessment in writing considering the whole linguistic repertoire of multilingual writers. We explore different ways to look at their three languages by focusing on the relationships between these languages rather than looking at each language in isolation. We analyse…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Writing Evaluation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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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
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Lahuerta, Ana – Language Learning Journal, 2020
This paper examines written language accuracy in a content and language integrated learning (CLIL) and a non-CLIL instruction context including grade and gender in the analysis. Essays written by 393 third and fourth year CLIL and non-CLIL secondary education students were evaluated by two measures of second language (L2) accuracy: error-free…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Accuracy
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Salas, Naymé; Caravolas, Markéta – Journal of Literacy Research, 2019
Writing development is understood to be a multidimensional task, heavily constrained by spelling in its early stages. However, most available evidence comes from studies with learners of the inconsistent English orthography, so our understanding of the nature of early writing could be highly biased. We explored writing dimensions in each language…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Spelling, Spanish, Grade 1
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LaHuerta, Ana Cristina – International Journal of English Studies, 2018
The aim of the present study is to compare the writing products of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) university students using accuracy and grammatical complexity as measures. It also aims at examining the development of the morphological, syntactic, lexical, spelling, and punctuation errors committed by these learners when writing in English.…
Descriptors: Accuracy, Grammar, Difficulty Level, Writing (Composition)