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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"English as a second language (ESL) writing"”.
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Occurrence of plagiarism in the writing of international graduate business students and its detection by SafeAssign
… international business students written for an ESL business communication course. The students’ papers were checked for plagiarism manually and by SafeAssign, a plagiarism detection platform within Blackboard’s compass2g. The findings indicate that the two most common types of plagiarism in …
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Written corrective feedback in the L2 writing classroom
… 1996, a highly influential essay entitled “The Case against Grammar Correction in L2 Writing Class”, by John Truscott of National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan, appeared in the June edition of Language Learning. In his essay, Truscott argued that empirical research, second language acquisition …
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A contrastive analysis of individual ESL writing conferences: theory, practice, and perceptions
… project investigates one-on-one and group ESL writing conference practices and instructor and student views on how these collaborative writing conferences help improve students' academic writing skills. Research provides strong evidence for the significant positive impact of writing …
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Beyond CTT and IRT: using an interactional measurement model to investigate the decision making process of EPT essay raters
"The current study as a doctorate dissertation investigates the gap between the nature of ESL performance tests and score-based analysis tools used in the field of language testing. The purpose of this study is hence to propose a new testing model and a new experiment instrument to examine test …
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Pakistani graduate student's perspective on the effectiveness of ESL writing courses at an American university
… and how they perceived the effectiveness of ESL writing courses they have taken. The primary data source was an online survey; follow up questions from student participants and in-depth interviews from their course instructors. In order to examine how different mediums of instructions …
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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 …