This study sought to investigate dynamic assessment (DA) - an assessment approach that embeds inter- vention within the assessment process and that yields information about the learner’s responsiveness to this intervention - and the writing performance of the second language (L2) learners in Web 2.0 contexts. To this end, pre and post-treatment writings of 45 par...

Air-writing refers to writing of characters or words in the free space by hand or finger movements. We address airwriting recognition problems in two companion papers. Part 2 addresses detecting and recognizing air-writing activities that are embedded in a continuous motion trajectory without delimitation. Detection of intended writing activities amongst superfluous finger movements unrelated t...

(2008). The discourse of collaborative creative writing: Peer collaboration as a context for mutual inspiration. Copyright and Moral Rights for the articles on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. For more information on Open Research Online's data policy on reuse of materials please consult the policies page. Drawing on socio-cultural theory, this pap...

the purpose of this study was to explore whether film-based dynamic assessment (da) could affect english writing of iranian deaf children. ten students studying in a school for the deaf took part in the study. the participants’ writing ability was measured prior to the treatment and the errors which were identified. a series of meditating activities were designed and implemented during a three-...

The main purpose of this research is "to study the effect of combined learning on students'educational achievement at girls' technical schools in Tehran". The research method in thisstudy is semi-experimental or semi-empirical. The statistical universe of this study includesall girl students of Tehran technical schools. At the first stage, 6 technical schools wereselected randomly and simply am...

This paper analyses transformations in collaborative activities that a computersupported collaborative writing system introduces into co-authors’ practices, and, discusses implications for the design of collaborative tools for writing. The analysis is grounded in user studies of four different groups of co-authors writing an academic report during two different collaborative situations. Two gro...

This study examines the effect of writing attributes on English performance pre-service engineering teachers. research adopts descriptive with a survey type. The population for this was all target is teachers in three (3) selected Educational Colleges. A multi-stage sampling procedure adopted study. data collection instrument an adapted questionnaire. Descriptive and inferential statistics were...