This study examined the number of writing samples needed to obtain a reliable estimate of young struggling writers’ capabilities. It further assessed if performance in one genre was reflective of performance in other genres for these children. Secondand third-grade students (81 boys, 56 girls), who were identified as struggling writers in need of special assistance by their teacher and scored a...

Work for this essay began with a problem that will sound all too familiar to most of us in higher education: It has recently dawned upon administrators and faculty in many departments across our university's curriculum that our students can't write. Or more accurately, enough of our students write poorly enough that we have cause for concern. This concern is usually expressed in the unequivocal...

background anxiety is one of the most common childhood disorders, so it is necessary to explore extend and its related factors in the students. this study was conducted to determine the prevalence of anxiety and the related factors of anxiety among the children aged 9-12 years. materials and methods at a descriptive-analytic study 623 children aged 9-12 year- old who were studying in the fourth...

The purpose of this study was to explore the relationships between the PASS model of intelligence and writing achievement in junior high students (aged 11-15 years) with and without written expression disabilities (as determined by school records and achievement testing). The PASS model of intelligence was operationalized as the Das-Naglieri: Cognitive Assessment System (CAS; 1997). Ninety-six ...

It is helpful for instructors to provide students with critique, not only upon completion of a writing assignment but also during the writing process. However, due to time constraints, instructors may not be able to read writing assignments more than once during a particular course, especially in large classes. Students may gain only limited feedback from a single source (the instructor). This ...

Many chapters in this book provide a good sense of what writing to learn is and how it works. I will explain in this chapter how I use writing-to-learn techniques to help students to think through an idea more clearly. Two aspects of writing to learn are very important: it helps students to understand content better, and it shows them that writing is a process with various stages. When students...

This study aimed at investigating the effect of Preview, Question, Read, Summarize (PQRS) Strategy on EFL students’ writing ability by considering their working memory capacity (WMC) levels. It involved Indonesian English as a foreign language (EFL) students of English Department in Universitas Negeri Malang, one of the leading universities in Indonesia. This study applied a quasi-experimental ...

This study examined the role of self-monitoring support for writing skill improvement in a reciprocal peer review of writing system called SWoRD (Cho & Schunn, 2007). Because self-monitoring has been identified as a critical component in self-regulated learning (Butler & Winne, 1995; Cresswell, 2000; Zimmerman & Risemberg, 1997), students were provided with opportunities to self-monitor their w...

Title of Document: CONTRIBUTIONS OF PRIOR KNOWLEDGE, MOTIVATION, AND STRATEGIES TO KOREAN COLLEGE STUDENTS’ L2 WRITING DEVELOPMENT Soo Eun Chae Doctor of Philosophy, 2011 Directed By: Professor Patricia A. Alexander, Department of Human Development The current study examined Korean college students’ L2 writing development and performance, motivation, and strategies while taking ESL writing clas...