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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"ESL academic writing"”.
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Issues in ESL Academic Writing
… university Direct Entry Program (DEP) state that academic writing in second language is challenging, leading to making errors. Rather than treating these errors on the surface, the underlying causes are salient; hence, this study has investigated the issue from a transdisciplinary perspective, …
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Portfolio assessment in ESL academic writing: Examining the effects of reflection in the writing process
Writing is done through a process of drafting and editing. Traditional writing assessment techniques, such as large-scale standardized tests and multiple-choice tests, are not compatible with the process-oriented curricula. Researchers and educators have started to explore other types of student …
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ESL students' perceptions of web-based prewriting activities /
… task-based activities for the instruction of ESL academic writing. Nine ESL students in their midtwenties, enrolled at a community college in Ontario, engaged in two separate online prewriting activities in both a synchronous and an asynchronous environment. The students were interviewed in …
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Synchronous and Asynchronous Conferencing: A Comparison of Two Modes of Online ESL Peer Response and Their Effects on Student Talk and Subsequent Text Revision
… synchronous conferencing for promoting student writing activities and have ignored the fact that asynchronous tools have been increasingly used in educational contexts in the last decade (Branon & Essex, 2001). Motivated by this gap in previous research, the present study investigated the …
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Listening to undergraduate Chinese students' perspectives on plagiarism
… it influences their ability to learn English for Academic Purposes (EAP). One issue that interests international educators is Chinese students' perceptions of plagiarism. Some scholars argue that as a Confucian heritage culture, Chinese students are more likely to plagiarize (Deckert 1992, …
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The Effects of Pre-Writing Strategy Training Guided by Computer-Based Procedural Facilitation on ESL Students’ Strategy Use, Writing Quantity, and Writing Quality
Pre-writing strategies are conscious thoughts, actions, or behaviors used by writers when they plan before writing. Research in second language writing suggests that specific writing strategies related to writing purposes, audience, brainstorming, and organizing ideas are teachable and have a …