As a widely used English proficiency test that includes writing component, IELTS raises pedagogical challenges require high-stake literacy skills to meet the demands of assessment criteria. Many studies on various teaching strategies for tasks in preparation courses have been conducted. However, more information about explicit instructions is needed help test-taker candidates respond effectivel...

This study was aimed at obtaining the profile of alignment between learning outcomes and assessment tasks on ‘writing’ skills development in “Pathway to English Grade X” textbook with regards Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy. The data were 32 statements 49 items 10 chapters. used Taxonomy table (Anderson & Krathwohl, 2001) as framework reference conducting collection interpretation. results showed ...

Scott A. Crossley Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia USA scrossleygsu.edu Abstract: This paper provides an agenda for replication studies focusing on second language (L2) writing and the use of natural language processing (NLP) tools and machine learning algorithms. Specifically, the paper introduces a variety of available NLP tools and machine learning algorithms and demonstrates how t...

Graduate students face a fundamental change in identity when transitioning from undergraduate writers to graduate writers. In their new role as graduate writers and researchers, they must move from consuming knowledge to producing knowledge through their writing. Often, they must learn new genres of writing, new disciplinary conventions, and new rhetorical models. For non-native English speaker...

Arnau de Vilanova, one of the most important physicians of the Latin Middle Ages, was familiar with the vast majority of Aristotle's works that had been translated into Latin. He used a wide range of them, such as the Organon--the introductory books on logic - and the natural philosophical books, which cover a different branches of knowledge. He used Aristotle as an authority, trying to reconci...