The main role and responsibility of second language writing teachers is to help learners to write with minimal errors. To do so, teachers need to provide students with appropriate types of feedback. In this research, the researchers examined the effect of post-text written corrective feedback on written grammatical accuracy of Iranian intermediate EFL learners. In the first phase, Nelson Profic...

This study explores 19 Taiwanese students’ writing in weekly online forum posts and traditional essays. Results drawn from discourse analysis of students’ writing in both types of writing tasks showed that the semesterlong online writing accompanied by explicit instruction on essays and basic academic writing conventions appeared to help raise EFL students’ consciousness of register in the two ...

This descriptive qualitative study aimed to investigate the types and sources of errors committed by Turkish students learning English as a foreign language (EFL) in their (L2) writings well find out whether there is difference terms number, classification, between at two different proficiency levels. To this end, was carried School Foreign Languages non-profit foundation university Turkey 2020...

Although colleges have offered academic writing courses, many students still struggle with this ability. Their poor skills are also associated a lack of teacher guidance The tasks given by teachers sometimes beyond their capabilities. Students not accustomed to long papers. As result, they do enjoy essays, and confident in skills. This research is intended collect analyze articles related Acade...

This study was an attempt to investigate whether output tasks, i.e., reconstruction and picturecuedwriting tasks, promote learners’ noticing of English passive structure compared to nonoutputtasks, i.e., reading comprehension and if so, which output task is more effective inenhancing learners’ noticing. In addition, this study aimed to investigate whether output tasksfacilitate learning of Engl...

This paper concerns the Bayesian modelling of a sensorimotor loop. We present a preliminary model of handwriting, that provides both production of letters and their recognition. It is structured around an abstract internal representation of letters, which acts as a pivot between motor and sensors models. The representation of letters is independent of the effector usually used to perform the mo...

How do comments on student writing from peers compare to those from subject-matter experts? This study examined the types of comments that reviewers produce as well as their perceived helpfulness. Comments on classmates’ papers were collected from two undergraduate and one graduate-level psychology course. The undergraduate papers in one of the courses were also commented on by an independent p...