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Ray J. T. Liao; Renka Ohta; Kwangmin Lee – Language Testing, 2024
As integrated writing tasks in large-scale and classroom-based writing assessments have risen in popularity, research studies have increasingly concentrated on providing validity evidence. Given the fact that most of these studies focus on adult second language learners rather than younger ones, this study examined the relationship between written…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Writing Evaluation, English Language Learners, Discourse Analysis
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Graham, Keith M.; Eslami, Zohreh – Reading Psychology, 2022
This study examines the role of transcription and ideation, the dimensions in the Simple View of Writing, as predictors of narrative and expository writing of English language learners (ELLs). Data were collected from sixth-grade primary school ELL students (N = 56) in Taiwan. Two writing samples, a narrative and an expository, were collected and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Expository Writing
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Schmidgall, Jonathan – ETS Research Report Series, 2020
The redesigned four-skills "TOEIC Bridge"® tests were designed to measure the listening, reading, speaking, and writing proficiency of beginning to low--intermediate English learners in the context of everyday life. In this paper, I describe two studies that were conducted to investigate claims about the meaningfulness of redesigned…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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Wang, Yi-Chien – International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching, 2022
This study explored the effects of technology-mediated task-based language teaching (TMTBLT) in an English as a foreign language (EFL) writing course on students' descriptive writing performance. A quasi-experiment was conducted. Students in two writing courses were recruited and randomly assigned to an experimental or control group. The…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Ling, Guangming – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2017
To investigate whether the type of keyboard used in exams introduces any construct-irrelevant variance to the TOEFL iBT Writing scores, we surveyed 17,040 TOEFL iBT examinees from 24 countries on their keyboard-related perceptions and preferences and analyzed the survey responses together with their test scores. Results suggest that controlling…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Writing Tests
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Liu, Gi-Zen; Lu, Hui-Ching; Lin, Vivien; Hsu, Wei-Chen – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2018
With the increased use of digital materials, undergraduate writers in English as a foreign language (EFL) contexts have become more susceptible to plagiarism. In this study, the researchers designed a blended English writing course with an online writing tutorial system entitled "DWright." The study examined the effectiveness of the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Plagiarism, Prevention, Intelligent Tutoring Systems
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Lin, Ming Huei – Educational Technology & Society, 2015
This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of integrating a learner-centered blogging approach into the EFL writing classroom in Taiwan. For this purpose, a 16-week experiment was conducted, involving an intact class of 18 university-level Taiwanese EFL student writers. During the experiment, the participants first created their own blogs on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Yang, Hui-Chun – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2014
This study explores the construct of a summarization test task by means of single-group and multigroup structural equation modeling (SEM). It examines the interrelationships between strategy use and performance, drawing on data from 298 Taiwanese undergraduates' summary essays and their self-reported strategy use. Single-group SEM analyses…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Structural Equation Models, Writing Skills, Language Tests
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Cheng, Hsiang-Chun; Chen, Jenn-Yeu; Tsai, Chia-Liang; Shen, Miau-Lin; Cherng, Rong-Ju – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
Developmental coordination disorder (DCD) refers to a delay in motor development that does not have any known medical cause. Studies conducted in English speaking societies have found that children with DCD display a higher co-occurrence rate of learning difficulties (e.g., problems in reading and writing) than typically developing (TD) children.…
Descriptors: Writing Difficulties, Learning Problems, Speech Communication, Reading Achievement
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Liao, Chen-Huei; Kuo, Bor-Chen; Pai, Kai-Chih – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2012
Automated scoring by means of Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) has been introduced lately to improve the traditional human scoring system. The purposes of the present study were to develop a LSA-based assessment system to evaluate children's Chinese sentence construction skills and to examine the effectiveness of LSA-based automated scoring function…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Effectiveness, Scoring, Personality
Hsu, Jeng-yih – Online Submission, 2007
The present study investigates the use of English lexical collocations and their relation to the online writing of Taiwanese college English majors and non-English majors. Data for the study were collected from 41 English majors and 21 non-English majors at a national university of science and technology in southern Taiwan. Each student was asked…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College English, Writing Tests, Educational Testing
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In, Fan-yu – College Teaching Methods & Styles Journal, 2008
Basic English Writing (BEW) courses have been part of English learning curricula in many universities. Some research has been conducted to investigate various class designs for English language courses. However, class designs for English writing are not yet abundantly developed to provide more experimental results. The purpose of this study was to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Basic Writing, College Seniors
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Lee, Yong-Won; Kantor, Robert – ETS Research Report Series, 2005
Possible integrated and independent tasks were pilot tested for the writing section of a new generation of TOEFL® (Test of English as a Foreign Language™) examination. This study examines the impact of various rating designs as well as the impact of the number of tasks and raters on the reliability of writing scores based on integrated and…
Descriptors: Language Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Writing Tests