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Using a Bilingual Concordancer for Text Revisions in EFL Writing
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Yang, Yu-Fen; Harn, Ruey-Fen; Hwang, Gwo-Haur – Educational Technology & Society, 2019
Many students who study English as a foreign language (EFL) have difficulty transferring linguistic features between languages while writing. This study aims to investigate how college students improve their EFL writing with text revisions by using a bilingual concordancer (Chinese and English). A sample of 32 college students consented to…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Indexes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Setting Writing Revision Goals after Assessment for Learning
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Huang, Shu-Chen – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2015
This study examined the effects of goal setting for revision in an EFL writing classroom where principles of assessment "for" learning (AfL) were followed. Following draft writing, instruction, and assessment, college freshmen were put into control, goal, and goal+ groups. Before students started to revise their drafts, individuals in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, English (Second Language), Revision (Written Composition)
Improving English as a Foreign Language Writing in Elementary Schools Using Mobile Devices in Familiar Situational Contexts
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Hwang, Wu-Yuin; Chen, Holly S. L.; Shadiev, Rustam; Huang, Ray Yueh-Min; Chen, Chia-Yu – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2014
This research proposed a situational learning system to help elementary school students practice and improve their English as a foreign language (EFL) writing skills. Students carried out assigned writing tasks using the support of mobile devices in situations deemed to be familiar to the students, such as on the school playground, within…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Interviews
The Effects of the WebQuest Writing Instruction Program on EFL Learners' Writing Performance, Writing Apprehension, and Perception
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Chuo, Tun-Whei Isabel – TESL-EJ, 2007
This study investigated the effects of the WebQuest Writing Instruction (WQWI) program on Taiwanese EFL learners' writing performance, writing apprehension, and perception of web-resource integrated language learning. Participants were students from two junior college classes. One class received traditional classroom writing instruction and the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing Instruction