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Download full textTorgerson, David; Torgerson, Carole; Jefferson, Laura; Buckley, Hannah; Ainsworth, Hannah; Heaps, Clare; Mitchell, Natasha – Education Endowment Foundation, 2014
The Discover Summer School was a four-week programme which aimed to improve the reading and writing skills of children during the summer between Year 6 and Year 7. The programme was targeted at pupils who had been predicted to achieve below Level 4b in English by the end of Key Stage 2. Pupils meeting the eligibility criteria for the study, and…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Reading Skills, Writing Skills, Low Achievement
Direct linkHsiao, Ya Ping; Broeder, Peter – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2013
This article explores levels of proficiency in Chinese with reference to the new HSK (Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi) Chinese Proficiency Test and the "Common European Framework of Reference for Languages" (CEFR). Special attention is given to learning and teaching the writing of Chinese characters and the use of Pinyin, a phonetic Romanization…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Tests, Chinese, Language Proficiency
Fung, Yong Mei; Mei, Hooi Chee – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
When writing an argumentative essay, writers develop and evaluate arguments to embody, initiate, or simulate various kinds of interpersonal and textual interaction for reader consideration (Wu & Allison, 2003). This is quite challenging for English as a second language (ESL) learners. To improve the quality of their writing, students need to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Freshman Composition, Essays
Awada, Ghada – Cogent Education, 2016
This article reports the results of an experimental study on the effectiveness of mobile technology (WhatsApp) in improving the critique writing skills of English as a Foreign Language learners and increasing their motivation for learning. The participants (n = 52) are Average-English proficient learners enrolled in two writing courses given at…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Handheld Devices, Writing Evaluation, Writing Improvement
Cho, Hyonsuk; Brutt-Griffler, Janina – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2015
This study reports Korean English language learners' perceived needs concerning their learning of reading and writing and how the integrated reading and writing instruction impacts their reading comprehension and summary-writing abilities. The study also delineates teacher's challenges faced during the instruction. A total of 93 students in a…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Reading Tests
Cubilo, Justin; Winke, Paula – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2013
Researchers debate whether listening tasks should be supported by visuals. Most empirical research in this area has been conducted on the effects of visual support on listening comprehension tasks employing multiple-choice questions. The present study seeks to expand this research by investigating the effects of video listening passages (vs.…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension Tests, Visual Stimuli, Writing Tests, Video Technology
Tan, May; Turner, Carolyn E. – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2015
In Quebec the high-stakes Secondary Five ESL exit writing exam developed by the Education Ministry (MELS) is administered and corrected by classroom teachers. In this distinctive situation, the MELS works toward aligning classroom-based assessment (CBA) and the writing exam by making ongoing teacher involvement part of its development and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High Stakes Tests, English (Second Language), Exit Examinations
Estalkhbijari, Zahra Pakdel; Khodareza, Mohammadreza – International Education Studies, 2012
This study aims to investigate the effects of warm up tasks as classroom activities on foreign language written production. For showing these effects, sixty out of one hundred forty Iranian sophomore EFL students from the Islamic Azad University of Lahijan branch, Iran were selected after following the Oxford Placement Test (OPT). Then, they were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Ability, Writing Exercises, English (Second Language)
Alharbi, Majed – English Language Teaching, 2015
This study aimed to investigate the effects of the online course tools, specifically discussion boards, blogs and wikis, the built-in facilities of Blackboard as computer-mediated communication integrated in e-learning environments on improving integrated reading and writing and on the attitudes of EFL college students towards literacy skills in…
Descriptors: Integrated Learning Systems, Electronic Publishing, Web Sites, Collaborative Writing
Abdel-Badea Rodwan Salama, Gomaa; Elshirbini Abdel-Fattah Al-Ashrii, Ismail Ibrahim – Online Submission, 2012
The present study aimed at identifying the necessary writing skills for the second year secondary stage students in Al-Azhar institutes through implementing the second part in the first package of the Egyptian Zero project. These skills are necessary for writing compositions for the second year in Arabic as their mother tongue and in English as a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Teachers, English Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
Soltero-Gonzalez, Lucinda; Escamilla, Kathy; Hopewell, Susan – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2012
This study explored the application of a holistic bilingual view to assess the writing of emerging bilingual children. The study is part of a 5-year longitudinal research and intervention project that explores the biliteracy development of Spanish-English emerging bilingual students who are receiving instruction in both languages. Participants…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Writing Evaluation, Writing Tests, Writing Ability
Shaarawy, Hanaa Youssef; Lotfy, Nohayer Esmat – Higher Education Studies, 2013
Based on the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) and following a blended learning approach (a supplement model), this article reports on a quasi-experiment where writing was taught evenly with other language skills in everyday language contexts and where asynchronous online activities were required from students to extend learning beyond…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Instruction, Asynchronous Communication, Blended Learning
Paziraie, Mandana Eftekhar – English Language Teaching, 2013
This study is devoted to the effect of "textual metafunction" on the levels of coherence and cohesion in the Iranian EFL learners' English writing performance. Sixty Iranian intermediate EFL learners who were adult females participated in this study were randomly divided into two groups; experimental, and control. They were given a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Writing Skills
Hussein, Mohamed Abdel Hadi; Al Ashri, Ismail Ibrahim El shirbini Abdel fattah – Online Submission, 2013
The present study aimed at identifying the necessary writing performance skills for the first year secondary stage students. These skills are necessary for writing the compositions. In this study, the writing conferences and peer response groups strategies were used to develop the students' writing skills, improve their achievement and performance…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Self Efficacy, Writing Tests, Writing Skills
Zhang, Mo; Breyer, F. Jay; Lorenz, Florian – ETS Research Report Series, 2013
In this research, we investigated the suitability of implementing "e-rater"® automated essay scoring in a high-stakes large-scale English language testing program. We examined the effectiveness of generic scoring and 2 variants of prompt-based scoring approaches. Effectiveness was evaluated on a number of dimensions, including agreement…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Software, Scoring, Language Tests
