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Hamdollah Ravand; Farshad Effatpanah; Wenchao Ma; Jimmy de la Torre; Purya Baghaei; Olga Kunina-Habenicht – Applied Measurement in Education, 2024
The purpose of this study was to explore the nature of interactions among second/foreign language (L2) writing subskills. Two types of relationships were investigated: subskill-item and subskill-subskill relationships. To achieve the first purpose, using writing data obtained from the writing essays of 500 English as a foreign language (EFL)…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Writing Instruction, Writing Skills, Writing Tests
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Pavavijarn, Sudthida – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2022
Textual coherence is an important part of writing. This study examines whether textual coherence affects the quality of argumentative essays by evaluating papers written by 22 EFL university students. Firstly, the argumentative essays were evaluated by two raters using an AP English Argumentative Writing rubric available on Turnitin, an online…
Descriptors: Writing Improvement, Writing Achievement, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Uluocak, Mustafa; Ipek, Ozan – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2022
The purpose of the study is to determine pre-service Turkish language teachers' use of text structure elements and their awareness and experience with argumentative writing. The research was designed as a case study, which included 115 undergraduate students studying Turkish language teaching. The data of the study consisted of the participants'…
Descriptors: Turkish, Language Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Persuasive Discourse
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Vögelin, Cristina; Jansen, Thorben; Keller, Stefan D.; Machts, Nils; Möller, Jens – Cogent Education, 2020
Assessing student writing is a complex task and experimental studies have shown that textual determinants, such as spelling or vocabulary, affect teachers' judgments of other analytic criteria in student essays. Among these elements, organisation has not been extensively explored. This experimental study examines how organisational quality…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction
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de Brusa, Maria Fernanda Poveda; Harutyunyan, Liliya – English Language Teaching, 2019
Higher education focuses on promoting the training of autonomous, critical professionals who adapt to the ever-more demanding labor market. To achieve these objectives, it is necessary to rethink teaching practices in order to allow the student to be the main actor and modeler for their learning process. Previous studies based on Vygotsky's…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Writing Evaluation, Essays, Academic Language
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Shi, Bibing; Huang, Liyan; Lu, Xiaofei – Language Testing, 2020
The continuation task, a new form of reading-writing integrated task in which test-takers read an incomplete story and then write the continuation and ending of the story, has been increasingly used in writing assessment, especially in China. However, language-test developers' understanding of the effects of important task-related factors on…
Descriptors: Cues, Writing Tests, Writing Evaluation, English (Second Language)