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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"writing proficiency"”.
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Writing Proficiency Among Graduate Students in Higher Education Programs
… in Higher Education courses were proficient at writing. While writing proficiency has been extensively studied in elementary students, high school students, and undergraduates, little attention has been paid to formally evaluating graduate student proficiency. Despite the relatively new idea of …
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Assessing Final Year Secretaryship and Management Students academic writing proficiency in Ghanaian Technical Universities
Academic writing plays an important role in the academic discourse community. In all higher education across the world, writing plays an indispensable role because students need to write assignments, examinations, academic reports and field or laboratory reports. Writing is a fundamental skill that …
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The effects of learning lexical chunks on the English writing proficiency of Chinese-speaking tertiary students in Australia
… relies heavily on their mastery of academic writing. How to improve international English as an Additional Language (EAL) students’ proficiency has been a cause of significant concern and debate among scholars and education specialists. Scholars in the field of Second Language Acquisition …
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Curriculum Based on Student Narrative Writing Designed to Affect Engagement and Writing Proficiency in an Urban High School
… school that engages all students and improves writing skills. Many students, but particularly students of color, are entering high school with writing skills that are far below grade level and do not receive the skills needed to write at a proficient level; there exists an achievement gap …
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Writing Instruction in Foreign Language Courses: Multiple Perspectives on the Impact of Peer Feedback on Students’ Writing Proficiency
… feedback can also help students improve their writing proficiency, including organization of their texts and awareness of the mechanics of the language necessary for successful communication of the intended message (Kinsler, 1990; Hu, 2005; Williams, 2005). Framed within a sociocultural …
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Helping English Language Learners Develop Writing Proficiency Using the Thesis Evidence Model in the High School Social Studies Classroom
… 34 high school grade students responded to a writing prompt used a pre-test evaluation. Students were then guided through a lesson sequence teaching writing strategies based in the Thesis-Evidence model. Upon completing these writing based lessons, students were evaluated again with another …
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A perspective on the theoretical foundations and pedagogical applications in computer adaptive testing of second and foreign language writing proficiency
… which differences exist between paper-and-pencil writing of single, timed essays and computer revising of multiple, non-timed essays. Of central focus along the way are the following conundrums inherent in particular to writing instruction and assessment: (a) process vs. product approach, (b) …
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How grammar matters in NNS academic writing: the relationship between verb tense and aspect usage patterns and L2 writing proficiency in academic discourse
… of teaching grammar in ESL/EFL academic writing courses by restating the question of “whether or not to teach grammar” to “how and when to teach which grammar.” This study used 120 de-identified academic essays written by NNS students—40 essays from three levels of students—during the …
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The Writing of Anglo and Hispanic Fourth and Sixth Graders in Regular, Submersion, and Bilingual Programs
… study was to describe and rate the writing of Hispanic students in a bilingual program and to compare their writing with that of Hispanic students in a submersion program and with native English speakers in a regular program. The secondary purpose was to investigate the effect that …
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MAPW Portfolio
… portfolio is designed to demonstrate a range of writing proficiency shaped by the MAPW program. It is comprised of artifacts crafted in my concentration and two support areas. A short story, stage play, and screen play represent the creative writing concentration. Blog post and kinetic poetry …
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A Holistic Comparison of the Writing Abilities of First-Grade Students who Attended Either Full-Day or Half-Day Kindergarten
… have been conducted to assess and compare writing proficiency of full-day and half-day students. The purpose of this study was to determine the difference in the writing scores of first grade students who attended either a full-day or half-day kindergarten program the previous year. …
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Helping struggling writers through self-regulated strategy development
… strategy development model to teach a story writing strategy to three 3<sup>rd</sup> grade students at a New Jersey Elementary School. This study involved a comparison of stories written by students before and after self-regulated strategy development instruction. Students chosen to …
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The effects of progress monitoring in early writing using curriculum-based measurement
… of progress monitoring assessments in early writing using curriculum-based measurement principles. The participants were 23 students in two first grade classrooms in a small elementary school in a medium sized city in the Midwest. The measures assessed include word copying, word dictation, …
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Reading Motivation as a Moderator for Adolescent Literacy Outcomes
… come to class without the necessary literacy proficiency for high school level content. English/Language Arts teachers find themselves needing to teach both grade level material alongside the basic, intermediate and disciplinary literacy skills students need to access text. Reading and writing …
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Integrating online cooperative learning into the English as a foreign language writing curriculum: a modelling trial
… together and research its influence on learner writing proficiency. To be specific, it was to explore whether online cooperative learning (OCL) with elements of Social Interdependence Theory (SIT) could actually manifest during learning and teaching online and whether there may be initial …
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Investigating the writing strategies of fourth year Libyan university students of English: strategy differences between good and poor writers of English
… an investigation of the composing processes and writing strategies of fourth year Libyan university students majoring in English as a foreign language. The study predominantly adopts a qualitative approach, using a number of research methods, namely think-aloud protocols, semi-structured …
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Writing Instruction in Practice: An Investigation into the Experiences of Beginning Teachers
… changes include increasing expectations for writing proficiency in K-12 settings and new accountability measures for teacher education programs. Yet, writing methods are often overlooked in preservice education and teachers report feeling unprepared to teach writing (Cutler & Graham, 2008; …
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Preventing Deaths by Writing: In Search of a Prescriptive Software Solution for Curing Student Writing Ills in Postsecondary Nursing Education
… helping nursing students to develop effective writing skills is equally seen as a life and death matter. A lack of proficiency in writing may literally be the death of a nursing student’s college hopes, but more importantly is the thought that a lack of proficient writing skills by nurses may …
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Fostering Strategic Second-Language Writers: A Study of Chinese English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) Writers’ Self-Regulated Learning Strategies, Self-Efficacy and Motivational Beliefs
… to second/foreign language (L2) learners' writing proficiency from the perspectives of self-regulated learning (SRL) strategies, motivational beliefs and self-efficacy. Composed of two phases, this mixed-methods research was to offer insightful empirical evidence for implementing effective …
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