Alternative assessment approaches and, among them, self-assessment and peer-assessment are becoming increasingly important in educational contexts. Designed to compare self-assessment, peer-assessment, and teacher-assessment, this study included 90 EFL students from 3 intact classes divided into 3 groups: self-assessment, peer-assessment, and teacher-assessment. After taking the TOEFL Proficien...

Recent second language (L2) writing research informed by task-based theories of acquisition has enthusiastically adopted task complexity frameworks to describe the specific cognitive demands a given and effect those on written L2 production. However, missing from many studies effects production is discussion genre as potential source complexity. This paper examines resource-dispersing form that...

Although story mapping strategy has been shown to be beneficial in many reading comprehension classes, the benefits of this technique have not been thoroughly investigated in L2 writing research. The small number of previous studies (e.g., Li, 2007; Brunner, 2010) have found the potential benefits of using story mapping strategy on students’ writing performance, but they did not focus on differ...

Purpose: This article describes the process of redesigning the American Cultural Studies 499 course in order to integrate information literacy and critical thinking outcomes into specific assignments. Since this research and writing proficiency course at Western Washington University has traditionally been taught by a librarian with background in the discipline, the article also considers the c...