In this paper we investigate whether unsupervised models can be used to induce conventional aspects of rhetorical language in scientific writing. We rely on the intuition that the rhetorical language used in a document is general in nature and independent of the document’s topic. We describe a Bayesian latent-variable model that implements this intuition. In two empirical evaluations based on t...

This data article contains information based on the 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress in Writing Restricted-Use Data, available from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES Pub. No. 2014476). https://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/researchcenter/datatools.aspx. The data include the statistical relationships between survey reports of teachers and students regarding prior...

willingness to communicate and motivation can be two important affective variables to cause success in language achievement. the current study aimed to investigate the role of willingness to communicate (wtc) and second language motivational self-system (l2mss) in relation to learners’ language achieve- ment. to this end, 100 homogeneous learners both male and female aged from 16 to 20 were cho...

Two major obstacles to using problem-based learning methods with writing in elementary school classrooms are the time it takes to design the learning environment and the time required for students to interact at their own pace with ill-structured problems used to spur student writing. This study examined whether game elements could be used along with Problem Based Learning (PBL) in a digital le...

this study compared 2 main approaches to readability assessment. thequantitative approach applied idea density based on part of speech tagging andcompared 3 sets of text types (i.e., narrative, expository, and argumentative) withrespect to their ease of reading. the qualitative approach was done throughdeveloping questionnaires measuring intermediate efl learners’ perceptions oncontent, motivat...

The construction of meaning in texts inevitably involves the expression of value judgments (Mirskin, 1995) as well as other types of writer evaluation. This paper explores the expression of value in argumentative English language essays written by first year undergraduates. Hunston’s (1989) evaluation of value which essentially involves qualitative judgements along the good–bad cline is used to...

The present study takes an integrated approach of grammatical elements and structures from the perspective their functioning in texts/discourses. It focusses semantic-pragmatic argumentative-discursive values utterances represented by conceptual scheme Yes... But..., academic writing, particular master’s theses reports. Its object are discursive sequences with a composite argumentative movement...

Critical thinking and self-voicing are two demanding skills that facilitate students to produce concise, authorial academic texts. While most writing programs research have paid much attention improving students’ achievement, less is given promote these in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classrooms. This article reports classroom-based study investigating the use of Cooperative Integrated R...