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Qoura, Ali A.; Zahran, Faten A. – English Language Teaching, 2018
The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of the 6+1 trait writing model on ESP university students' critical thinking and writing achievement. It was assumed that students who receive training using the 6+1 trait writing model would reveal greater gains in critical thinking and writing achievement. Six instruments -designed by the…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, Models, English for Special Purposes
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Petersen, Jennifer – Educational Psychology Review, 2018
A comprehensive, statistical review of gender differences in verbal performance has not been conducted in several decades and the majority of previous work on this topic used published studies that often include small, non-representative samples. The introduction of national legislation in US public schools required schools to assess and publicly…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Verbal Ability, Language Arts, Elementary School Students
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Montgomery, Diane – Support for Learning, 2017
Research has shown that dyslexics have an inability to establish sound-symbol correspondence, phonological awareness and alphabetic knowledge by the normal teaching methods used in schools. In new research with Reception year children, ages 4 and 5 years, it was found that 90 per cent on entry to 8 Reception classes had not established sound to…
Descriptors: Identification, Dyslexia, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Teaching Methods
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Owada, Kazuharu – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2017
There are some English verbs that can be used both intransitively and transitively. Verbs such as "break," "close," and "melt" can appear in intransitive active, transitive active, and passive constructions. Although native English speakers know in what kind of context a target verb is used in a certain construction,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Jaelani, Selamet Riadi – English Language Teaching, 2017
The objectives of the research are to examine: (1) whether Content-Based Instruction is more effective than Problem-based learning to teach writing to the EFL Learners; (2) whether the EFL Learners having high creativity have better writing than those having low creativity; and (3) whether there is an interaction between teaching methods and EFL…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Creativity, Writing Instruction
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Bigozzi, Lucia; Tarchi, Christian; Pinto, Giuliana – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2017
The purpose of this study was to investigate consistency in spelling skills across 2 different tasks of written production (dictation vs. composition) and stability of performance across 4 different grades. We assessed 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders' spelling performance through 4 tasks: 2 dictation tasks (passage and sentences) and 2 composition…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Spelling, Reliability, Verbal Communication
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Meunier, Fanny; Hendrikx, Isa; Bulon, Amélie; Van Goethem, Kristel; Naets, Hubert – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2023
Whilst the links between learner corpus research (LCR) and Second Language Acquisition (SLA) have long been debated, McEnery et al. (2019. "Corpus Linguistics, Learner Corpora, and SLA: Employing Technology to Analyze Language Use." Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 39: 74-92. doi:10.1017/S0267190519000096) claim that learner corpus…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Immersion Programs, Computational Linguistics, Content and Language Integrated Learning
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Munawar, Sumaira; Chaudhary, Abid Hussain – Bulletin of Education and Research, 2019
Cooperative learning may have beneficial impact on classroom teaching. The study aimed to identify the effect of cooperative learning in writing ability of the 7th class students in the subject of English. The population of the study consisted of 68 students enrolled at elementary level (7th grade) in Government Girls High School Burj Attari,…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Comparative Analysis, Writing Skills, Writing Instruction
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2022
Three groups of EFL freshman students were concurrently enrolled in a grammar and a writing course. One group was taught the grammar and writing courses by the same instructor; the other two groups were taught grammar and writing by two different instructors using the same textbook but different instructional and assessment techniques. The study…
Descriptors: Teacher Qualifications, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Almond, Russell G. – International Journal of Testing, 2014
Assessments consisting of only a few extended constructed response items (essays) are not typically equated using anchor test designs as there are typically too few essay prompts in each form to allow for meaningful equating. This article explores the idea that output from an automated scoring program designed to measure writing fluency (a common…
Descriptors: Automation, Equated Scores, Writing Tests, Essay Tests
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Peaci, Davut – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2020
Scholars have given little attention to testing's influence on the outcomes of university English preparatory programs (UEPP). Variations on the two main classifications of writing evaluation, the holistic and the analytic were examined. The objectives were to identify the assumptions for inclusion of writing in UEPPs, analyze the skills and…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Cross Cultural Studies, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Berthele, Raphael; Vanhove, Jan – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2020
This article reports on an investigation into the bilingual development of literacy skills in Portuguese heritage language speakers in Switzerland in which we sought to put Cummins' linguistic interdependence hypothesis to the test. Three predictions were derived from this hypothesis: (1) Literacy skill levels in one of the bilinguals' languages…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Literacy, Portuguese, French
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Khouya, Youssef Baba – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2018
This study was conducted to investigate the problem of demotivation in English language learning (ELL) within the Moroccan context. To attain this objective, two instruments were adopted: a questionnaire and a writing test. The participants involved in this study were 201 baccalaureate students (second year) from six secondary schools, 84 were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Motivation, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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McGrane, Joshua Aaron; Humphry, Stephen Mark; Heldsinger, Sandra – Applied Measurement in Education, 2018
National standardized assessment programs have increasingly included extended written performances, amplifying the need for reliable, valid, and efficient methods of assessment. This article examines a two-stage method using comparative judgments and calibrated exemplars as a complement and alternative to existing methods of assessing writing.…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Foreign Countries, Writing Tests, Writing Evaluation
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Steedle, Jeffrey T.; Ferrara, Steve – Applied Measurement in Education, 2016
As an alternative to rubric scoring, comparative judgment generates essay scores by aggregating decisions about the relative quality of the essays. Comparative judgment eliminates certain scorer biases and potentially reduces training requirements, thereby allowing a large number of judges, including teachers, to participate in essay evaluation.…
Descriptors: Essays, Scoring, Comparative Analysis, Evaluators
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