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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In recent years plagiarism has been on the increase across the western world. This article identifies internet access as a contributory cause of this trend and addresses the implications of readily-available internet sources for the teaching and assessment of writing in schools. The basis for the article is a previous study showing a wide incidence of plagiarism in the internet-based writing of...

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...

We investigated whether students increased their self-assessment accuracy and essay scores over the course of an intervention with a writing strategy intelligent tutoring system, W-Pal. Results indicate that students were able to learn from W-Pal, and that the combination of strategy instruction, game-based practice, and holistic essay-based practice led to equivalent gains in selfassessment ac...

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...

This article describes how a group of Iranian upper-intermediate EFL learners were guided through the practice of writing their first academic essays in English. The method applied the principle of scaffolding to the essay writing process by providing flexible support for the learners during the writ- ing their first essays. Scaffolding included a number of aspects, each of which is explained i...