It is often wrongly assumed that the provision of teacher corrective feedback naturally entails learners' attendance to and application of it, but learners have repeatedly been reported not to pay attention to teacher feedback due to lack of motivation and the distracting effect of the grades they receive. The present study was an attempt to tackle this problem. To do so, the technique named Dr...

While letter-naming ability is a well-known preschool predictor of the later acquisition literacy, little known about an appropriate benchmark (i.e., how many letter names children must know at given age) and it may vary among different writing systems. The present study aimed to establish in Japanese Hiragana for pre-elementary (age 5 6 years) examined whether this predicts risk or success rea...

Corrective feedback is a crucial aspect of language teaching, which aims to help students improve accuracy and fluency. While research on corrective has been conducted worldwide, there dearth empirical studies in the Indian context. Despite this gap, several suggest that practices India are based mainly traditional grammar-translation methods prioritizing over fluency rather than considering st...

Idea generation is an important component of most major theories of writing. However, few studies have linked idea generation in writing samples to assessments of writing quality or examined links between linguistic features in a text and idea generation. This study uses human ratings of idea generation, such as idea fluency, idea flexibility, idea originality, and idea elaboration, to analyze ...

This paper reports the initial findings of an ongoing investigation into the summary writing performance of university students in Taiwan. Forty-six students at the high-intermediate and advanced levels of proficiency participated in this study, in which they were asked to read two argumentative English texts and write a summary in English for each source text. Frameworks from Friend (2001), Ri...

The Semantic Web (SW) is still far from realising its full potential, partly because it is still lacking enough high quality SW representations of information. We argue that a step in the right direction is fostering people’s capability to fluently create high quality SW representations of the information they generate during problem solving processes. To foster such a capability, we propose a ...

The majority of high-stakes tests from elementary school through postsecondary education include the timed impromptu essay as a measure of writing performance. For adolescents with writing disorders, this type of evaluation often presents a significant barrier. The purpose of the current study was twofold. First, we investigated the influence of handwritten, typed, and typed/edited formats of a...