Questions Worth Asking: Intersections between Writing Research and Computational Linguistics
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چکیده
Rather than explain research that has already been carried out, this paper describes a specific context of writing instruction and poses questions about how research on writing and computational linguistics might be brought together to address three pressing issues: the validity of Directed SelfPlacement; the relationship between confidence and competence in student writing; and strategies to help English Language Learners, especially those in the category of Generation 1.5, improve their writing.
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