Weblog Promotes ESL Learners’ Writing Autonomy

Negative Language Transfer Reflected in ESL Learners’ English Writing

Using Coh-Metrix to Analyze Chinese ESL Learners’ Writing

Scoring essays is costly, laborious and time-consuming. Automated scoring of essays is a promising approach to face this challenge. Coh-Metrix is a computer tool that reports on cohesion, sentence complexity, lexical sophistication and other descriptive features at sentenceand paragraph-level. It has been widely used to analyze native English speakers’ essay writing. However, few studies have u...

Investigating autonomy of Malaysian ESL learners: A comparison between public and private universities

The concept of autonomy in the context of language education in Europe had focused on the importance of personal autonomy. It was only recently that cultural influences were taken into consideration in interpreting autonomy. Studies on undergraduates learning ESL (English as a Second Language) in public universities in Malaysia revealed that the students were basically teacher-centred and lacke...

Grammar, Writing, and Technology: A Sample Technology-supported Approach to Teaching Grammar and Improving Writing for ESL Learners

English language learners are frequently unable to benefit from the prevailing process-writing approaches due to a lack of grammar and vocabulary knowledge relevant to academic writing. This paper describes how the need for explicit grammar instruction as part of preparing students to write can be addressed by using a collection of learner texts and transforming that collection into an online g...

Using Digital Comics in Teaching ESL Writing

The use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in teaching and learning language is one of the popular approaches employed in education and is said to be a beneficial tool in language teaching and learning. The digital comics can be implemented in teaching and learning process with the purpose to motivate low proficiency students in writing skill. This study aimed to examine the teac...