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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"writing development"”.
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The Effects of Personal Goals in Writing Development
<p>To prepare students to become functional members of society, educators must teach more than the basic skills. Today's students must be competent with the constantly changing technology, they must be able to work independently, they must be able to work with a group of their peers and they must …
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Basic Cursive Writing: Development of a Self-Instructional Program
… skills. This study is concerned with the development and evaluation of a program teaching motor skills relevant to the learning of cursive writing. The accompanying perceptual skills are essentially of the visual and kinesthetic type.
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Children with Dyslexia: Spelling as a Constraint on Writing Development
Background. Developmental dyslexia is characterised as a specific learning difficulty with written language: namely, reading and spelling. To date, little research has been conducted to examine the role of spelling when writing and, in particular, in the writing of young children with dyslexia. …
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The writing development of English language learners from two grades
… a qualitative case study that investigated the writing development of seven Chinese-speaking English language learners (ELLs) from kindergarten and 3rd-grade ESL classes in an elementary school in the Midwest and intended to discover the factors that affect students' English writing development …
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Peer Interaction and Writing Development in a Social Studies High School Classroom
<p>Peer review can be a valuable tool in the writing development of high school sophomores. Specifically, this research study explores the use of peer review to improve writing skills and to build content knowledge in a social studies high school classroom through the use of peer interaction. The …
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Examining the Mediational Role of Writing Motivation in the Writing Development of Elementary-Aged Students
<p>Motivational variables, such as writing self-efficacy and writing attitudes, are not emphasized in writing frameworks for developing writers. The purpose of this research study was to extend the research literature on elementary-aged students’ writing development by examining the potential …
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Supporting Kindergartners’ Writing Development Through the Use of Lucy Calkins’ Units of Study: A Self Study
Supporting Kindergartners’ Writing Development Through the Use of Lucy Calkins’ Units of Study: A Self Study Lora Bower Candidate for Master of Science in Education The College at Brockport, State University of new York, 2014 Abstract This self-study is my attempt to determine how I could use Lucy …
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Second language writing development from a Complex Dynamic Systems Theory perspective : a multiple case-study of Hungarian learners of English
Second language (L2) writing (especially English as a foreign language) is generally considered as one of the most important skills that language learners need to acquire during their language education (Lee, 2016). However, L2 writing might be one of the most difficult skills for English as a …
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Chinese Students’ Metacognitive Experiences in Learning to Write in English as a Foreign Language (EFL): Metacognitive Growth and Writing Development
… and metacognitive strategies in the field of EFL writing has flourished, little is known about the effect of learners’ metacognitive experiences on their learning of EFL writing. To fill such an important gap, this study had three main focuses: 1) investigating Chinese students’ metacognitive …
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Taking ownership : the relationship between self-representation and writing development in a science extended curriculum programme at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology
… of the literacy deficit views of student writing at Cape Peninsula University of Technology where I teach. The study is located in an Extended Curriculum Programme in the Applied Sciences and stretches across the Analytical Chemistry and Horticulture disciplines. It argues that writing is …
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Analytical writing and identity development of diverse adolescents in an alternative high school preparatory academy
… dissertation presents a case study of analytical writing and identity development among diverse, ninth grade adolescents enrolled in an alternative high school preparatory academy. Within the larger school context, the study examines the case of the writing classroom—specifically, the four-month …
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Students Speak Out About Choices Made in the Classroom
… how students perceived individual reading and writing choices through student involvement in academics. The goal of the study was to confer with students to see if choice was allowed in student literacy development, to what extent choice was allowed, and how choice motivates students to want to …
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The Development of Taiwanese Children's Ability to Infer Orthographic Information From Semantic and Phonological Information
… principles to help their reading and writing development in Chinese, a non-alphabetic language. The relationship between the acquisition of phoneme-grapheme correspondence and reading ability has been well-established for alphabetic orthographies. In Chinese, characters are the basic …
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Priming the Pump: Reflection as a Catalyst for Transfer
… they will do in subsequent courses, including writing in their own disciplines. In order for this to happen, students have to be able to transfer their knowledge. Because transfer does not happen automatically, it must be fostered in a way that encourages students to recognize and articulate …
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The Impact of Daily Process Writing with Emergin Writers
… of this paper is that children learn to write by writing. This study examines the impact on writing development when students are allowed to write on a daily basis with teacher support and lessons created to meet the needs of the learners. The progress of the writing population is examined against …
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The impact of a training program in phonological awareness on children's early writing
… in phonological awareness had on the early writing skills of children in a Grade One class in the Lincoln County Separate school system. The intent of the training program was to provide consistent and systematic practice in the manipulation of the phonological structure of language. The …
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