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Peer feedback has been ubiquitous in language learning, especially writing skills. With the integration of technology English education, peer through digital tools can be a replacement for traditional classroom activities. This study investigated effects using Padlet on email EFL students and their learning motivation. Two groups participants were recruited: 32 control non-English majors 34 exp...

The aim of the paper is to investigate duration between successive keystrokes during typing in order to examine whether prosodic boundaries are expressed in the process of writing. In particular, we are interested in interkey durations that occur next to punctuation marks (comma and full stops while taking keystrokes between words as a reference), since these punctuation marks are often realize...

This case study is aimed to examine the communicative competence of an Indonesian student who studying in one United States Universities. The evaluation competence, such as speaking and writing, was based on theory Communicative Competence (CC) proposed by Celce-Murcia (2008). spoken written data given were from IELTS test format. collected face-to-face interview through Skype application, whil...