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ERIC Number: EJ1396935
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 24
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0922-4777
EISSN: EISSN-1573-0905
Toward a Better Understanding of Skill Integration in Integrated Writing: A Structural Equation Modeling Study of EFL Secondary Learners' Test Performance
Ye, Wei; Ren, Wei
Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, v36 n10 p2739-2762 2023
Integrated writing has gained importance in both tertiary and secondary learning contexts. However, assessment tasks at secondary schools have received little attention. To obtain evidence of skill integration, a task-defining feature for integrated writing, we developed a comprehensive questionnaire study of an understudied task used in the secondary EFL context, namely, the story continuation writing task. An exploratory factor analysis of 258 secondary students' responses to a self-generated questionnaire and a confirmatory factor analysis of another 470 responses to a revised questionnaire revealed a correlated structure of planning, writing, grammar, and a secondary-order factor reading-to-connect comprising "reading and selecting" and "transformation". The structure model showed that writing affected test performance directly and positively, and grammar and reading-to-connect mediated the impact of planning on writing. The findings indicate that the story continuation writing task is a content-responsible task tapping heavily into writing. The skill integration continuum is proven to be a useful framework for understanding the integrated writing construct.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Tests/Questionnaires
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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