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Don Chapman – Across the Disciplines, 2024
Prescriptive discourse, which favors certain variants over others, like "different from" vs. "different than," has usually been characterized in terms of correctness in spelling, punctuation, word meaning, or grammar. Yet usage guides in the 20th century have added numerous entries that focus more on style considerations than…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Educational History, Language Styles, Spelling
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Anabela Malpique; Deborah Pino-Pasternak; Debora Valcan; Mustafa Asil – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2024
Two hundred ninety-eight primary teachers (88% female) from across all Australian states and territories reported on the frequency with which they implemented instructional adaptations for struggling writers in their classrooms. They also rated their preparation and self-efficacy for teaching writing. The majority of participating teachers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Writing (Composition), Writing Difficulties
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Karali, Yalçin; Aydemir, Hasan; Sen, Mert – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2021
Purpose: Not only in daily conversations, official correspondence, and educational settings but also on social media platforms, the correct usage of language by prospective teachers has become a necessity of the age. Twitter, which is used by many people to express their feelings, opinions, etc., is used actively by prospective teachers as well.…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Language Usage, Turkish, Social Media
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Sangmin-Michelle Lee; Nayeon Kang – Language Learning & Technology, 2024
With recent improvements in machine translation (MT) accuracy, MT has gained unprecedented popularity in second language (L2) learning. Despite the significant number of studies on MT use, the effects of using MT on students' retention of learning or secondary school students' use of MT in L2 writing has rarely been researched. The current study…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Writing (Composition), Middle School Students, Foreign Countries
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Tiryaki, Esra Nur; Bi?can, Gülsat – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2021
It is observed that individuals have problems in written expression in the Turkish education system, and a permanent solution can not be developed to solve these problems. Therefore, the primary objective of this research is to determine the problems of prospective Turkish teachers in paragraph creation. This research was carried out in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Writing Skills, Paragraph Composition
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Hawkins, Lisa K.; Martin, Nicole M.; Bottomley, Diane; Shanahan, Brendan; Cooper, Jennifer – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2022
This mixed methods study sought to extend what is known about preservice teachers' [PSTs'] enactment of the core practice of reading and responding to students' writing by examining their reading of elementary students' writing at the start and end of writing-focused methods coursework. PSTs' reading of students' writing involves analysis of…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Educational Needs, Childrens Writing
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Pruchnic, Jeff; Barton, Ellen; Primeau, Sarah; Trimble, Thomas; Varty, Nicole; Foster, Tanina – Composition Forum, 2021
Over the past two decades, reflective writing has occupied an increasingly prominent position in composition theory, pedagogy, and assessment as researchers have described the value of reflection and reflective writing in college students' development of higher-order writing skills, such as genre conventions (Yancey, "Reflection";…
Descriptors: Reflection, Correlation, Essays, Freshman Composition
Lisa F. Gusewelle – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study examines the impact of the College, Career, and Community Writers Program (C3WP) on upper-elementary students' first draft writing quality, addressing the challenges teachers face in providing timely and effective feedback on extensive student writing, particularly in spelling, grammar, mechanics, and cohesion. The hypothesis posits…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Spelling, Grammar, Connected Discourse
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Mohammadkarimi, Ebrahim – International Journal of Language Testing, 2022
Assessment of learners affects all processes of their learning. Generally, without assessment, it is very difficult to evaluate the effectiveness of the teaching and learning process. Understanding their weak points and difficulties in their writing would help teachers and administrators focus more on these areas. Therefore, this content analysis…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Undergraduate Students
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Peristeri, Eleni; Tsimpli, Ianthi Maria – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2023
Twenty-eight Albanian-Greek bilingual children with Developmental Language Disorder and 28 children with Autism Spectrum Disorder but no language impairment, along with 28 typically-developing, age-, Performance IQ- and socioeconomic status-matched bilingual children were asked to produce two expository texts which were coded for spelling…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Impairments, Developmental Disabilities, Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Ismael, Kozhin Omer; Saeed, Kochar Ali; Ibrahim, Airin Shwan; Fatah, Diya Shawkat – Arab World English Journal, 2022
While technology has undoubtedly improved and has become an essential component of modern life, technological advances' consequences have both beneficial and detrimental impacts on students' writing skills in the classroom. Technology has accelerated and simplified work for students, but it has also instilled the belief that there is no need to…
Descriptors: Automation, Error Correction, Writing Skills, College Students
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Lukas Matati Josua – Journal of English Teaching, 2024
Studying towards a postgraduate qualification is viewed as a booster that may usher employees towards management positions. We have found common mistakes in research proposals for master's degree students in a department at the University of Namibia. Our presentation shows the shortcomings in the research proposals of postgraduate students and…
Descriptors: Masters Programs, Graduate Students, Universities, Plagiarism
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Yildiz, Funda Uzdu; Çetin, Betül – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2020
The present study systematically reviewed research that was conducted to analyze the errors within the written expressions of individuals learning Turkish as a foreign language. The sample of the study consisted of 16 articles that were identified through the review of literature. The articles that focused on the written expression errors made by…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Written Language, Turkish, Second Language Learning
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Bayram, Bora – Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2022
The COVID 19 pandemic, which started to be seen in Turkey in March 2020, required some changes to the education process in our country and all over the world, and during this period, the courses were carried out online. Therefore, education activities for foreigners residing in different parts of the world in Turkish education were carried out…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Second Language Learning, Turkish, Online Courses
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Beyreli, Latif – Educational Research and Reviews, 2019
In this study, the orthography and punctuation problem was evaluated within the context of the curricula and textbooks. The data obtained from both sources were assessed by way of document reviews, and consequently, it was seen that the orthography and punctuation topics existed as learning outcomes only in the curricula for the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, Punctuation, Curriculum
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