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Flora; Cahyadi, Dimas Sukma; Sukirlan, Muhammad – International Journal of Education and Practice, 2020
This study investigated whether students' writing achievements could increase using a modified roundtable technique based on the process approach and to find out what aspects of writing significantly increase. A quantitative study in the form of preexperimental design was conducted which involved 21 tenth grade students of a 1 Pekalongan-Lampung…
Descriptors: Writing Achievement, Writing Processes, Writing Instruction, High School Students
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Ahmadi, Saeed; Riasati, Mohammad Javad; Bavali, Mohammad – International Journal of Instruction, 2019
The present study aimed at investigating whether academic IELTS candidates perform differently in writing on either a chart topic or a table topic of the IELTS writing task 1 with regard to the four IELTS writing marking criteria i.e. task achievement, coherence and cohesion, lexical resource, and grammar range and accuracy. The study adopted a…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Writing Tests
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Griswold, Olga – CATESOL Journal, 2017
This study analyzed the grammatical control of verbs exercised by 145 monolingual English and Generation 1.5 bilingual developmental writers in narrative essays using quantitative and qualitative methods. Generation 1.5 students made more errors than their monolingual peers in each category investigated, albeit in only 2 categories was the…
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, Verbs, Grammar
Leder, Gilah; Forgasz, Helen – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2014
In this paper we report trends over time of performance of non-Indigenous and Indigenous students on the Numeracy component of the NAPLAN tests. Possible links between student performance on the NAPLAN Numeracy test and the four components--Reading, Writing, Spelling, and Grammar--of the NAPLAN Literacy test were also explored. While the…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Numeracy, Mathematics Achievement, Mathematics Tests
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Prvinchandar, Sunita; Ayub, Ahmad Fauzi Mohd – English Language Teaching, 2014
This study compared the effectiveness of two types of computer software for improving the English writing skills of pupils in a Malaysian primary school. Sixty students who participated in the seven-week training course were divided into two groups, with the experimental group using the StyleWriter software and the control group using the…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Courseware, Writing Improvement, Elementary School Students
Radi, Odette Bourjaili – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
This paper presents the results of a study aimed at investigating how and why secondary school students use spelling and grammar checkers to aid them in their English writing. The study was a result of close observation over many years of how some students use computers effectively to support their writing, while others make just as much use of…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Spelling, Grammar, Writing (Composition)
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Zhang, Tianyi; Gao, Tianguang; Ring, Gail; Zhang, Wei – International Journal on E-Learning, 2007
This study investigated the influence of online discussion forums on student achievement in reading, writing, grammar, vocabulary, and critical thinking in English as Second Language (ESL) instruction. Fifty-four senior high school students participated in this study and were divided into three groups. Data were collected from achievement…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Writing Skills, Student Attitudes, Computer Mediated Communication
Ballator, Nada; Farnum, Marisa; Kaplan, Bruce – 1999
Supplementary to "NAEP 1996 Trends in Academic Progress," this report describes two aspects of writing for which change has been measured since 1984: writing fluency as determined by holistic scoring; and mastery of the conventions of written English as determined by mechanics scoring. The introduction discusses the layout and means of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 11, Grade 4