This study aims to investigate Vietnamese students’ perceptions of portfolio assessment and how it affects their writing performance. Furthermore, the explores problems encountered during process, which could offer professional support for teachers, particularly novice when applying this formative teaching writing. Data was collected through written papers, observations, semi-structured intervi...

The  major  aim  of  this  paper  was  to  investigate  the  validity  of  language  and intelligence  factors  for  classifying  Iranian  English  learners`  writing  performance. Iranian  participants  of  the  study  took  three  tests  for  grammar,  breadth,  and  depth  of vocabulary, and two tests for verbal and narrative intelligence. They also produced a corpus  of  argumentative  writ...

This study aimed to investigate the relationship between Iranian EFL Learners’ perfectionism and writing anxiety their performance in IELTS Writing Module. To this end, sixty-eight learners were selected via convenience sampling. Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale developed validated by Hewitt Flett (1991) Second Language Anxiety Inventory devised Cheng (2004) administered participants. The p...

While the emergence of new forms performance writing in 1960s and 1970s did not eliminate traditional drama, they radically transformed role textuality theatre. This article argues that when liberated from rules dramatic even syntax grammar, brings an illocationary logic into textual production. The concludes with a preliminary consideration differences between experimental strategies latest te...

This paper presents an approach to the automatic classification of article errors in non native (L2) English writing, using data cho sen from the MELD corpus that was purposely selected to contain only cases with article errors. We report on two experiments on the data: one to assess the performance of different machine learning algorithms in predicting correct article usage, and the other to d...

The automated scoring of second-language (L2) learner text along various writing dimensions is an increasingly active research area. In this paper, we focus on determining the topical relevance of an essay to the prompt that elicited it. Given the burden involved in manually assigning scores for use in training supervised prompt-relevance models, we develop unsupervised models and show that the...

Previous work on bilingual language processing indicates that native-language skills can influence second-language acquisition. The goal of the present work was to examine the influence of second-language experiences on native-language vocabulary and reading skills in two groups of bilingual speakers. English-Spanish and English-Mandarin bilingual adults were tested on vocabulary knowledge and ...

The present study intended to investigate the processing behavior of 2 groups of L2 learners of English (high and mid in proficiency) and a group of English native speakers on English active and passive reduced relative clauses. Three sets of tasks, an offline task, and 2 online tasks were conducted. Results revealed that the high-proficiency group’s performance was the same as that of the nati...