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Dole, Janice A.; Nelson, Elizabeth Thackeray; Pahnke, Adrienne Lowe; Rush, Elisabeth Dibble – Reading Horizons, 2021
The purpose of this study was to investigate upper elementary (Grades 4-6) and middle school (Grades 6-8) teachers' views of grammar and its instruction and to determine differences in their views about grammar, its instruction, and its importance to writing proficiency. Participants in this online study were 196 practicing teachers in eight…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Middle School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Grammar
Bushnell, Adam, Ed.; Gill, Angela, Ed.; Waugh, David, Ed.; Smith, Rob, Ed. – SAGE Publications Ltd (UK), 2020
How do teachers identify the potential for greater depth writing and encourage children to meet their full potential? This book was created by people who are not only passionate about primary education, but who are also leading experts in their own particular areas. They have made use of their wide experience to offer practical guidance on greater…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Writing (Composition), Writing Teachers
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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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Abdel Latif, Muhammad M. – Journal of Research in Reading, 2015
High levels of apprehension cause students to have writing difficulties. This study attempted to identify the sources of Egyptian university students' English writing apprehension. The study made use of both quantitative and qualitative data. The scores of 57 students on a writing apprehension scale were compared to their scores on another scale…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, English (Second Language), Writing Attitudes
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Artunduaga Cuéllar, Marco Tulio – HOW, 2013
This article presents the results of an action research study whose purpose was to apply alternatives for the development of grammatical competence in a group of third semester students of a Morphosyntax I course in an English language teaching undergraduate program at a Colombian public university. Given the fact that the teaching of grammar has…
Descriptors: Process Approach (Writing), Grammar, Action Research, Competency Based Education
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Pan, Yi-chun – TEFLIN Journal: A publication on the teaching and learning of English, 2010
This study investigated the effect of teacher error feedback on students' ability to write accurately. Three male first-year Physics graduate students at a university in Taiwan participated in this study. They were asked to write a 100-word passage about the greatest invention in human history. Within days of the teacher's grammatical feedback,…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Error Analysis (Language), Error Correction, Student Writing Models
Lenski, Susan; Verbruggen, Frances – Guilford Publications, 2010
Many English language learners (ELLs) require extra support to become successful writers. This book helps teachers understand the unique needs of ELLs and promote their achievement by adapting the effective instructional methods they already know. Engaging and accessible, the book features standards-based lesson planning ideas, examples of student…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Elementary Education, Middle Schools