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Višnja Pavicic Takac – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
Inspired by Rebecca Oxford's thought-provoking reflections on language learning strategies, and particularly her orchestra metaphor on how the strategies work together, I conducted a study that seeks to understand how non-native writers employ, configure, sequence and combine individual writing strategies when creating a text in the target…
Descriptors: Writing Strategies, Collaborative Writing, Persuasive Discourse, Essays
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Madeleine Mejia – Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2024
This qualitative study investigated the influence of Metawriting, or "writing about writing," on fifth-grade students' knowledge of writing and proficiency in composing informative essays. Using a Think-TalkWrite model, students explored their existing writing knowledge and experiences, analyzed their essays using genre-specific tools,…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Process Approach (Writing), Writing Instruction, Metacognition
Marwan Abdulmohsen A. Almuhaysh – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study investigates the effectiveness of writing instruction within the Saudi EFL context, and its alignment with students' future needs and Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 goals. Two schools located in two different regions with different disciplinary foci were selected for this study. Three study tools were identified to assess the writing…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Writing Strategies, Foreign Countries
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Zhan Wang; Ming Ming Chiu – Applied Linguistics, 2024
Although many studies modelled writing quality by analysing basic skills (spelling, grammar, etc.), few focused on top-down compositional strategies at the discourse level. We propose that using both narrative and argument discourse modes in an argumentative essay (a multi-discourse mode [MDM] strategy) capitalizes on their complementary…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Writing (Composition), Essays, Persuasive Discourse
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Omid Mallahi – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2024
The present study explores the status of argumentative essay writing strategy use and identifies the problems a convenient sample of Iranian EFL learners face while writing argumentative essays in English. Adopting a complementary process-genre approach and a mixed-methods research design, the researcher designed a genre-specific argumentative…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Essays, Persuasive Discourse
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Suzanne Woods-Groves; Margaret M. Flores; Betty Patten; Kinga Balint-Langel; Charles A. Hughes; Taehoon Choi – Journal of Inclusive Postsecondary Education, 2024
The authors of this study examined a virtually delivered multimedia expository writing strategy via a single case multiple-baseline across participants design with three college students enrolled in a postsecondary program for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Participants responded to expository essay prompts at the…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Multimedia Materials, Essays, Writing (Composition)
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Chairani Resti Ananda; Radiatan Mardiah; Nunung Fajaryani – Indonesian Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, 2024
Argumentative writing is a genre of writing that is considered difficult by EFL students at the university level. This study aimed to investigate problems faced by EFL students in writing an argumentative essay and to explain their strategies to overcome the problems. The participants of this study were ten fifth-semester students of the 2023-2024…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction