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Direct linkShalizar, Reza; Rezaei, Amir – Language Learning Journal, 2023
This study compares the effect of ZPD feedback with explicit feedback on accuracy in second language (L2) writing. It also examines the effect of focused vs. unfocused ZPD feedback on L2 writing development during teacher-student tutorial sessions. Four participants wrote five persuasive essays and were provided with ZPD or explicit feedback…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Teacher Student Relationship, Learning Theories, Feedback (Response)
Learners' Attitudes toward Using Dynamic Assessment in Teaching and Assessing IELTS Writing Task One
Download full textBabamoradi, Parvin; Nasiri, Mahdi; Mohammadi, Elham – International Journal of Language Testing, 2018
Regarding the importance and complexity of writing among the EFL language learners, this study explored the learners' attitudes toward teaching and testing writing through Computerized Dynamic Assessment (CDA). The participants of this study were 22 Iranian upper-intermediate EFL learners. All the participants were adults and participated in this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Alternative Assessment, English (Second Language)
Ghorbanchian, Elahe; Youhanaee, Manijeh; Amirian, Zahra – English Language Teaching, 2019
Cognitive complexity is traditionally used for describing human cognition along a simplicity-complexity axis in tests like TOFEL IBT and GRE where text creation and rhetorical organization are quintessentially important. Accordingly, this study sought to investigate the impact of mentor text modelling on cognitive complexity of academic writing…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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
Grigorenko, Elena L., Ed.; Mambrino, Elisa, Ed.; Preiss, David D., Ed. – Psychology Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
This book captures the diversity and richness of writing as it relates to different forms of abilities, skills, competencies, and expertise. Psychologists, educators, researchers, and practitioners in neighboring areas are interested in exploring how writing develops and in what manner this development can be fostered, but they lack a handy,…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Written Language, Literacy, Child Development
