Developing a Scale of Business English Writing Proficiency: Considerations and Methods

2021 ◽  
pp. 45-62
Author(s):  
Li Wang ◽  
Jason Fan
Keyword(s):  
Writing Proficiency ◽  
Business English ◽  
English Writing

Discipline specificity and students’ English writing proficiency: A case of collaborative teaching for transfer

TESOL Journal ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Somayeh Biparva Haghighi ◽  
Zohreh G. Shooshtari ◽  
Alireza Jalilifar
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Teaching ◽  
Writing Proficiency ◽  
English Writing

Focus on Students: A Blended Business English Writing Class in Sabah

2013 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Leduning ◽  
Lee Kean Wah
Keyword(s):  
Business English ◽  
English Writing ◽  
Writing Class

scholarly journals A Study on the Relationship between University Students’ Chinese Writing Proficiency and Their English Writing Proficiency

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoyu Huang ◽  
Xueying Liang ◽  
Effie Dracopoulos
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Positive Transfer ◽  
First Year ◽  
Writing Proficiency ◽  
Significance Level ◽  
English Writing ◽  
Language Writing ◽  
Chinese Writing

Up to now, most researchers have been paying attention to the negative transfer of mother tongue to second language writing. Few studies, if any, have touched upon the positive transfer. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate the positive transfer of Chinese to 26 first-year university students’ English writing holistically and segmentally in the use of words, grammar, coherence, and content and organization. The result of the Pearson correlation coefficient turned out to be 0.43 at the 5% significance level, indicating a positive relationship between the Chinese writing and the English writing. The questionnaires have also confirmed the result of the correlation analysis. In particular, the positive transfer of Chinese seems to be more apparent in the content and organization of the English writing, followed by coherence and use of words. Thus, it can be concluded that the positive transfer of mother tongue can facilitate English writing.

scholarly journals A Study on Critical Thinking Assessment System of College English Writing

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tian Dong ◽  
Lu Yue
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Assessment System ◽  
Writing Proficiency ◽  
College English ◽  
English Writing ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Writing Competence

<p>This research attempts to discuss the validity of introducing the evaluation of students’ critical thinking skills (CTS) into the assessment system of college English writing through an empirical study. In this paper, 30 College English Test Band 4 (CET-4) writing samples were collected and analyzed. Students’ CTS and the final scores of collected writing samples were respectively regarded as two independent variables to make a correlation analysis through Pearson Correlation of SPSS17.0 software. In addition, Excel was also used as an instrument to analyze the research results. The findings suggest that the two variables are significantly and positively correlated with each other, that is, students’ CTS greatly influence their English writing proficiency. Thus, it is quite necessary to cultivate students’ CTS to improve their English writing competence.<strong> </strong></p>

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