Abstract This article examines the effects of task conditions (i.e., with and without a sentence-writing task), multimedia input (definition only, definition + information, information videos), combinations these two variables on learning gains new words. study involved 2 × 3 research design. In total, 235 Chinese EFL learners were allocated to six conditions. Vocabulary outcomes measured by pr...

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Writing is perceived as the most challenging skill among other productive skills in English language learning. This preliminary study aims at revealing problems encountered by secondary EFL students writing analytical exposition. Employing students' and interviews qualitative manner, 25 second-year Bandung, Indonesia, were purposefully involved. Result indicated that three major their expositio...

In this paper, we present a new method based on machine translation for correcting serial grammatical errors in a given sentence in learners’ writing. In our approach, translation models are generated to translate the input into a grammatical sentence. The method involves automatically learning two translation models that are based on Web-scale n-grams. The first model translates trigrams conta...

Abstract. Abstract is an essential part of a scientific paper. However, according to the finding researchers working in repository at (UIN) Ar-Raniry Banda Aceh, many students still do not comply with rules for writing papers. This study aims analyze types sentence complexity thesis abstracts UIN Aceh and level use papers by Aceh. used qualitative approach descriptive content analysis methods. ...

This article discusses the academic writing challenges of undergraduate students at Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT), South Africa. It examines challenges such as lack of a mastery of academic writing conventions, analysis of writing topics, using writing to construct social identities; ability to research and apply knowledge across different context and poor sentence skills. It a...

Purpose: Writing performance can be improved in patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) by providing the visual cues. This study aimed to investigate changes pen pressure, letter size, and writing speed as per levels of cues.Methods: Sixty-three participants (38 PD 25 normal adults) performed tasks, including sentence along cue using a tablet personal computer, digital pen, software that could m...