Second Language (L2) Writing
Language switching among Malay undergraduates in an English as a second language writing
... L2 writing researchers should not rely on the research findings of their L1 counterparts in order to address the issues related to composing competence of L2 ...first language writing process ...
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Error Is Not Terror: Error Correction in Second Language Writing
... Traditionally, writing teachers and students have regarded error correction as playing a driving force in improving L2 writing accuracy (Ferris & Roberts, 2001; Lee, 2004); however, several writers have ...
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Plagiarism in second language writing
... her writing process revealed various problems in her use of electronic sources, such as poor search techniques ...the writing task easier for students, since they need to develop a new set of skills, such ...
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Focusing on a Subset of Scripts Enhances the Learning Efficiency of Second Language Writing System
... Memorizing the whole set of graphemes is generally accepted as the first step of learning a phonogramic language. However, it is demanding for L2 learners to familiarize the whole inventory of graphemes in advance ...
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First Language Transfer in Second Language Writing: An Examination of Current Research
... in language transfer can be traced back to the 1940s and 1950s, during which the field of linguistics was heavily influenced by Behaviorism, which viewed learning simply as a habit formation ...native ...
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Student perceptions of difficulties in second language writing
... towards writing activities; they are perhaps among their last choices, or they try not to engage themselves in writing unless they have ...in writing hence reluctance may be the ...their ...
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Rater reliability and score discrepancy under holistic and analytic scoring of second language writing
... It is not the purpose of this study to ascertain whether holistic or analytic method should be preferred in grading L2 writing. Rather, the goal was to provide more informa- tion on how these two methods resemble ...
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Thai second language writing: the development of language knowledge and cross cultural influence
... their language use become more evident” (Tolchinsky, 2004, ...of language knowledge that are shared by members of a ...later language development will be born in mind when interpreting the results of ...
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RESEARCH STUDIES IN SECOND LANGUAGE WRITING AND IN CONTRASTIVE RHETORIC
... of writing instruction, because each has its own ...in writing students, both work to initiate students into the target discourse community, and both focus on the discovery of meaning—but in different The ...
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Instructor’s Direct and Indirect Feedback: How do they Impact Learners’ Written Performance?
... among writing teachers in attempt to improve students’ language accuracy in their written ...of second language (L2) writing stated that WCF plays a significant role in language ...
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Vol 18, No 1 (2016)
... a second language (ESL) field (Leeman, Rabin, & Román-Mendoza, ...between language and ...of second language writers and, in particular, to writers’ language choices and ...
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L2 creative writers : identities and writing processes
... for writing research today’ ...L2 writing from the asocial ‘cognitive routines’ ...creative writing in that they are not ‘independent cognitive entities’ but ‘socially constituted’ ...post-process ...
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Cognitive and Linguistic Deficits in Second Language Writing
... that language acquisition is a purely subconscious process (Krashen, 1982), since the learner clearly noticed some of the grammatical structures he seemed to have ...
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A Corpus of Textual Revisions in Second Language Writing
... chanical, word-level errors, or also substantially re- organize paragraph or essay structures — has hardly been investigated. One reason for this gap in the literature is the lack of corpus data: none of the ex- isting ...
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The Relationship Beetween Creativity in Thinking and Writing Performance of Iranian EFL Learnrs on Comparison / Contrast
... in writing an effective comparison and contrast essay, the topic sentence should identify both items (subjects) to be compared or contrasted and tell the reader exactly what is going to say about these ...of ...
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Concept Mapping for Improving Expository Writing in Second Language
... developed. The control group was very energetic at the beginning. As the students were unaware of the grouping purpose, they did not know about writing prompts. Some of the students also tried to perform better ...
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The Effects of Task-Based Process Writing Approach on the Academic Writing Skills among Second Language Tertiary Learners
... the writing component had further enhanced their knowledge and skills in writing good essay specifically in coming up with effective thesis statements, constructing strong supporting and specific supporting ...
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IMPACTS OF BILINGUALITY ON STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC WRITING SKILL: ADDITIONAL EVIDENCE
... overall writing performance of the groups was compared and evaluated using the ESL Composition Profile proposed by Jacob et ...divides writing into five components, ...vocabulary, language use, and ...
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Evaluating the Role of Writing in the First and Second Year University Foreign Language Curriculum
... described writing instruction that “typically included selecting artificial topics, assigning them before any writing instruction occurred, and designing them, above all, to elicit grammar ...28). ...
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Effects of writing systems on second language awareness: Word awareness in English learners of Chinese as a Foreign Language
... English writing system (but like Thai, Burmese, Tibetan, Japanese and other writing systems), Chinese does not mark word bound- ...word-spaced writing system affects word awareness even among native ...
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