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Horowitz, Rosalind; Wilburn, Marcy – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2017
This article examines how students develop an effective macrostructure with supporting arguments in academic writing. We base the study on theory developed about macrostructures. The study focuses on components of macrostructure-building through tutor-tutee dialogic communication. We draw from work on the role of speech for and within written…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, First Generation College Students, Hispanic American Students, Bilingual Students
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Zinchuk, Jennifer Eidum – Composition Forum, 2017
Within the field of Writing Studies, metacognition is rapidly being recognized as essential for the effective transfer of knowledge across contexts. This program profile describes a pre-college writing course at the University of Washington that builds metacognition, confidence, and fluency in writing. Through program evaluations, student surveys,…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Self Esteem, Writing (Composition), Writing Skills
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Wang, Zuowei; Sabatini, John; O'Reilly, Tenaha; Feng, Gary – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2017
Reading is affected by both situational requirements and one's cognitive skills. The current study investigated how individual differences interacted with task requirements to determine reading behavior and outcome. We recorded the eye movements of college students, who differed in reading efficiency, while they completed a multiple-choice (MC)…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Eye Movements, Reading Processes, Reading Tests
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Dunne, Julie L. – Journal of Teaching and Learning for Graduate Employability, 2017
This paper reports on a study which investigated the effect of activities to promote awareness of specific prioritised graduate attributes on the quality of reflection displayed in student work-placement reflective blog assessments. The focus of the paper is on the results from a thematic analysis of reflective writing assisted by NVivo software…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Job Placement, Employment Potential, Reflection
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Erixon, Per-Olof; Erixon Arreman, Inger – Education Inquiry, 2017
This study explores the extended demands for writing in the Swedish public service sector of early childhood and how academic writing in the higher education programmes aimed at professional work in that sector is perceived to be of value for early childhood practice among practitioners. Empirical data was collected in individual interviews and…
Descriptors: Professionalism, Early Childhood Education, Academic Language, Unions
Mackey, Michelle G. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
I conducted 2 experiments in which I tested the effects of a reader immersion procedure on the technical reading comprehension responses to print stimuli for 4 kindergarten students and 3 first grade students. The participants selected for this study textually responded to words at a rate of 80 words correct per minute with 0 incorrect words per…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Immersion Programs, Reading Comprehension, Beginning Reading
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Strobl, Carola – Research-publishing.net, 2017
This study explores the potential of a feedback environment using simple string-based pattern matching technology for the provision of automated corrective feedback on cohesion problems. Thirty-eight high-frequent problems, including non-target like use of connectives and co-references were addressed providing both direct and indirect feedback.…
Descriptors: Advanced Students, Feedback (Response), German, Second Language Learning
Florin Crider, Amy Leigh – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Freshman composition instructors at Christian institutions face a disturbing predicament: competing pedagogies, administrative pressure to prove freshman composition's merit, public clamoring for greater return on the college investment, technology redefining what "writing" is, a postmodern audience, and most concerning, the challenge to…
Descriptors: Christianity, Writing Instruction, College Freshmen, Ideology
Ramirez-DelToro, Ginny – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation reports on how features of interactions and instruction contributed to an elementary classroom culture of reading and writing that students and their teacher worked together to develop. Positioning theory informed analysis of participants' interactions as they used texts in social and academic ways. The theory of figured worlds…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Reading, Writing (Composition)
Kaushalya Perera; Nathan Emmerich, Editor – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2017
Researchers regularly deal with ethical considerations when writing up their research. However, such considerations are rarely addressed in existing research ethics literature. Here, the focus tends to be on ethical considerations that arise in relation to research proposals and "protocols," that is, during the "process" of…
Descriptors: Ethics, Social Science Research, Writing (Composition), Research Proposals
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Perret, Cyril; Laganaro, Marina – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2013
The comparison between spoken and handwritten production in picture naming tasks represents an important source of information for building models of cognitive processes involved in writing. Studies using this methodology systematically reported longer latencies for handwritten than for spoken production. To uncover the origin of this difference…
Descriptors: Naming, Oral Language, Written Language, Writing (Composition)
Rodriguez, Olga; Hill, Laura; Payares-Montoya, Daniel – Public Policy Institute of California, 2022
Assembly Bill 705 (AB 705) sought to increase successful completion of transfer-level math and English courses by addressing systemic problems in traditional placement policies and curricular structures. The law requires colleges to maximize the probability that students who enroll in credit English as a second language (ESL) courses complete…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Rodriguez, Olga; Hill, Laura; Payares-Montoya, Daniel – Public Policy Institute of California, 2022
These technical appendices are for the report, "English as a Second Language at California's Community Colleges: An Early Examination of AB 705 Reforms." Assembly Bill 705 (AB 705 Irwin) sought to increase successful completion of transfer-level math and English courses by addressing systemic problems in traditional placement policies…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Shum, Mark Shiu-kee; Tai, Chung Pui; Shi, Dan – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2018
Non-Chinese-speaking (NCS) South Asian students, as ethnic minority group in Hong Kong, are the main disadvantaged social cohort in Chinese language learning. It has been a challenge for L1 Chinese teachers to conduct L2 Chinese teaching to NCS students with diversified native languages and socio-cultural backgrounds. "Reading to Learn,…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Minority Groups, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
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Truax, Megan L. – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2018
In recent years, many students have developed a fixed mindset as a result of the national focus on raising test scores. The present study aims to investigate the effects of teacher language and the inclusion of growth mindset feedback on the writing motivation of second and third grade students. The researcher used a mixed-methods,…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Student Motivation, Writing (Composition), Mixed Methods Research
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