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Al-Jarf, Reima – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2021
Many EFL teachers spend a lot of time marking students' written assignments and correcting their spelling, grammatical, punctuation, organization and idea generation errors in detail. The more mistakes students make the more meticulously they mark and correct mistakes. Despite meticulous error correction, students continue to make the same…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Writing Instruction, Writing Evaluation, Second Language Learning
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Wilson, Ros – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2017
This article demonstrates the distortions arising from attempts to impose a rigid set of criteria on teacher assessment. The use of surface features of syntax and punctuation to determine grades created a situation where children's writing became artificial and lacking in interest.
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Evaluation Methods, Student Evaluation, Syntax
Mohammad H. Adam – Online Submission, 2024
Writing proper English sentences poses a significant challenge for Arabic-speaking postsecondary students studying English as a Foreign Language (EFL) due to substantial differences between Arabic and English syntactic structures. This basic qualitative study explored the perceptions of Arabic-speaking EFL learners at an Arabian university…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Arabic, Native Language
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Schumaker, Jean B.; Walsh, Lisa D.; Fisher, Joseph B. – Journal of Special Education Technology, 2021
The effects of an interactive multimedia (IM) software program for teaching comma strategies to students with learning disabilities (LD) were determined with regard to the students' sentence-editing and sentence-construction skills. Students with LD at the middle-school and high-school levels were randomly selected in their intact cohorts for the…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Multimedia Instruction, Courseware, Mastery Learning
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Datchuk, Shawn M.; Hier, Bridget O.; Watts, Emily A. – Elementary School Journal, 2021
We conducted a skills analysis on written expression curriculum-based measurement (WE-CBM) tasks completed by 117 second-grade students. As part of the skills analysis, we scored two WE-CBM tasks (i.e., narrative and expository) for correct and incorrect writing sequences, common writing errors, and sentence structures. Although a majority of…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Elementary School Students, Writing Skills, Curriculum Based Assessment
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Orcasitas-Vicandi, María – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
In this article, we compare holistic, analytic and cross-linguistic measures of assessment in writing considering the whole linguistic repertoire of multilingual writers. We explore different ways to look at their three languages by focusing on the relationships between these languages rather than looking at each language in isolation. We analyse…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Writing Evaluation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Crible, Ludivine – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2020
Ambiguity in discourse is pervasive, yet mechanisms of production and processing suggest that it tends to be compensated in context. The present study sets out to analyze the combination of discourse markers (such as "but" or "moreover") with other discourse signals (such as semantic relations or punctuation marks) across three…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Language Styles, Ambiguity (Semantics), Language Processing
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Sariani; El Khairat, Mutia; Yaningsih – International Journal of Language Education, 2021
In response to the current situation of the pandemic COVID-19 outbreak which has been affected worldwide, this study examines the opt on online learning for writing skill, and to assess the development of the writing task. It draws the data from an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) student's writing documents, and marking documents of three…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Electronic Learning, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Alharthi, Saleh – SAGE Open, 2021
Writing is an intricate process that encompasses various factors and is a key skill for English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students. Thus, writing assignments are vital for any curriculum. One of the essential aspects of effective writing includes good grammar knowledge. Advocates of process writing argue that a free-writing journal is a…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Writing Instruction
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Paudel, Pitambar – Online Submission, 2022
With the change in socio-political and educational contexts in global academia, the trend of writing academic papers has arisen among Nepali students and educators in higher education. However, many of them are still unfamiliar with the basic standard to be incorporated in an academic paper. In this context, this study examined the post-graduate…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Syntax, Error Patterns, Foreign Countries
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Gunawardana, Anoma Abeywickremasinghe – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2022
Errors are a reflection of competence level of language users. Therefore, with the purpose of understanding the competence level of teachers of English, the present study analyzed errors produced by twenty three non-native English speaking teachers pursuing a Bachelor of Education degree in Sri Lanka. Employing qualitative content analysis method,…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Satchwell, Candice – Literacy, 2019
How an author communicates with a reader is a central consideration in the critical examination of any text. When considering the communication of ideas from young people whose voices are seldom heard, the journey from author to audience has particular significance. The construction of children and young people as 'authors' is important,…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Students with Disabilities, Authors, Learning Problems
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Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
Weiner (1988. "On Editing a Usage Guide." In "Words for Robert Burchfield's Sixty-Fifth Birthday," edited by E. G. Stanley, and T. F. Hoad, 171-183. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 173) describes usage guides as being 'as broad as the English language, covering spelling, punctuation, phonology, morphology, syntax, and lexis, and…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Sociolinguistics, Guides, Real Estate
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Andrews, Sally; Veldre, Aaron – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2021
This study used wrap-up effects on eye movements to assess the relationship between online reading behavior and comprehension. Participants, assessed on measures of reading, vocabulary, and spelling, read short passages that manipulated whether a syntactic boundary was "unmarked" by punctuation, "weakly marked" by a comma, or…
Descriptors: Sentences, Punctuation, Cues, Reading Comprehension
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Robinson-Kooi, Sally; Hammond, Lorraine S – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2020
Daily contextualised sentence dictation was used for Year 2 students to practise, and the teacher to assess, taught spelling concepts, capital letters and full stop usage in an Explicit Instruction (EI) intervention. Conducted in a mainstream setting, it supported all students learning to spell, including those with a learning difficulty (LD) and…
Descriptors: Spelling Instruction, Punctuation, Teaching Methods, Alphabets
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