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Direct linkDunlop, Lynda; Rushton, Elizabeth A. C.; Atkinson, Lucy; Blake, Celena; Calvert, Saul; Cornelissen, Eef; Dècle, Clémentine C. M.; DeSchrijver, Jelle; Dhassi, Kirndeep K.; Edwards, Rosalind P. R.; Malaj, Greta; Mirjanic, Jovana; Saunders, William E.H.; Sinkovec, Yara; Stadnyk, Tetiana; Štofan, Jaroslav; Stubbs, Joshua E.; Su, Chrissy; Turkenburg-van Diepen, Maria; Vellekoop, Suzan; Veneu, Fernanda; Yuan, Xinyue – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2023
Drawing on insights from a four-day online workshop, which explored geo-engineering and policy making with 13 youth participants, an academic and youth authorial team provide a guide to the co-creation of policy briefs. Drawing on excerpts from the policy brief at different stages of development and commentary provided by the authors during the…
Descriptors: Policy Formation, Geography Instruction, Higher Education, College Students
Expressing Evaluation across Disciplines in Primary and Secondary CLIL Writing: A Longitudinal Study
Whittaker, Rachel; McCabe, Anne – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2023
The construct of cognitive discourse functions (CDFs) has been proposed as a bridge between linguists and educationalists, linking 'subject specific cognitive learning goals with the linguistic representations they receive in classroom interaction' (Dalton-Puffer 2013. "A Construct of Cognitive Discourse Functions for Conceptualising…
Descriptors: Content and Language Integrated Learning, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students, Second Language Learning
Download full textBjorn, Genevive A.; Quaynor, Laura; Burgasser, Adam J. – Impacting Education: Journal on Transforming Professional Practice, 2022
Synthesizing academic literature into new knowledge through writing is a core skill that doctoral students engaged in research must learn. However, developing efficacy in synthesis skills as an academic writer is a culturally and cognitively demanding process that occurs over many years, requires abstraction, and draws upon critical reading…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Reading Research, Reading Strategies, Critical Reading
Ramos do Ó, Jorge; Paz, Ana Luísa – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2023
This article seeks to discuss the relations between reading and writing against the historical backdrop of the initial affirmation of the "studia humanitatis" in fifteenth-century renaissance Italy and its initial movement towards the North of Europe. It focuses first on the theory of education and learning expressed in the Treatises of…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Academic Education, Reading, Writing (Composition)
Sword, H.; Sorrenson, P.; Ballard, M. – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
This article explores the affordances, limitations and future potential of the Writing BASE, a heuristic tool designed to help academic writers identify their strengths and weaknesses in four foundational areas of their writing practice: behavioural, artisanal, social and emotional. After describing the development of the tool, we report on two…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Writing (Composition), Emotional Response, Social Influences
Gaillat, Thomas; Lafontaine, Antoine; Knefati, Anas – CALICO Journal, 2023
In this article, we focus on the design of a second language (L2) formative feedback system that provides linguistic complexity graph reports on the writings of English for special purposes students at the university level. The system is evaluated in light of formative instruction features pointed out in the literature. The significance of…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Sasayama, Shoko; Garcia Gomez, Pablo; Norris, John M. – ETS Research Report Series, 2021
This report describes the development of efficient second language (L2) writing assessment tasks designed specifically for low-proficiency learners of English to be included in the "TOEFL® Essentials"™ test. Based on the can-do descriptors of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages for the A1 through B1 levels of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Writing Tests
Landri, Paolo; Grimaldi, Emiliano – European Educational Research Journal, 2020
This editorial introduces the "European Educational Research Journal" special issue that hosts four articles co-authored by emerging researchers in the field of educational research in Europe who participated in the Summer School in European Education Studies. We present the Summer School in European Education Studies project, its…
Descriptors: Summer Schools, Educational Research, Educational Researchers, Educational History
Yannakoudakis, Helen; Andersen, Øistein E.; Geranpayeh, Ardeshir; Briscoe, Ted; Nicholls, Diane – Applied Measurement in Education, 2018
There are quite a few challenges in the development of an automated writing placement model for non-native English learners, among them the fact that exams that encompass the full range of language proficiency exhibited at different stages of learning are hard to design. However, acquisition of appropriate training data that are relevant to the…
Descriptors: Automation, Data Processing, Student Placement, English Language Learners
Gutiérrez, Xavier – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée, 2017
The usefulness of explicit knowledge of the second language is a matter of controversy in the field of second language acquisition. In this regard, it has been argued that explicit representations might be useful for some structures but not for others (R. Ellis, 2006; Roehr & Gánem-Gutiérrez, 2009). The goal of this study was to examine…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Spanish, Verbs
Portman, Daniel; Broido, Monica – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2019
Increasingly, professionally-oriented tertiary institutions are concerned with equipping their students with the English language skills needed in today's global professional world. The recently extended 2018 Common European Framework (CEFR) provides useful guidance to help institutions develop curricula to achieve this goal. This paper describes…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Rating Scales, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Han, Amy – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2012
The CercleS version of the European Language Portfolio (ELP) has been used with language degree students at the University of Padova since the academic year 2002-2003. The courses into which it is embedded are generally blended: lessons take place in traditional classrooms and in the multimedia language laboratory, and students work online in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Second Language Programs, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Moloney, Robyn; Genua-Petrovic, Rosalba – Babel, 2012
It is increasingly common for schools to form partnerships with schools in the countries of languages learned in the classroom. While there has been substantial investigation of language and culture learning in the context of tertiary study abroad, there has been limited research attention to pedagogical interventions which may support learning in…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Exchange Programs, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning
Petric, Bojana – Journal of Second Language Writing, 2012
Using textual analysis and interviews with student writers, this study aims to provide an insight into second language students' use of direct quotations in their MA theses by comparing direct quotations in high-rated and low-rated Master's theses, and by exploring student writers' own motivations to quote directly from sources. The corpus…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Introductory Courses, Plagiarism, Translation
Peer reviewedDeMott, Benjamin – Educational Leadership, 1990
Were it not for readers and writers, the ideas of truth and openness might have disappeared behind the Iron Curtain forever. We read and write, not to ensure employers of a competent work force, but to know each other's responses, to connect ourselves more fully with the human world, and to strengthen the truth-telling habit among us. (MLH)
Descriptors: Censorship, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Literacy
