Self‐correction through corpus‐based tasks: Improving writing skills of Arabic learners

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mai Zaki
Keyword(s):  
Writing Skills ◽  
Improving Writing

Berufsrelevante L2-Schreibkompetenz fördern durch Fordern

Fachsprache ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 193-209
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Janisch ◽  
Eva Seidl
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Writing Process ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Teaching Approach ◽  
Main Question ◽  
Language Level ◽  
Improving Writing ◽  
The University ◽  
Summer Semester

This article outlines approaches on how to support writing skills and text competence when teaching German as a foreign language. The main question is whether and how dealing in detail with one’s own mistakes and actively analysing one’s own writing process can contribute to improving writing skills in teaching German as a foreign language. Reflections which were written down during the 2013/14 winter and 2016 summer semester at the University of Graz by students studying German as a foreign language, level C1, serve as basis for this article. These reflections refer to texts gathered within one semester respectively. They address subjects relevant to the daily life of a translator in training, such as economics, law, culture, medicine and technology. During this period of reflection, students addressed the question of whether their approach to writing texts has changed in the course of one semester. In addition, they were asked to focus on which mistakes were made repeatedly and to which error category they belonged. Furthermore, they examined the areas in which they feel that they have personally improved and see their strengths. This article aims to demonstrate to what extent this teaching approach succeeded.

scholarly journals Dysgraphi Coach: Mobile Application for Dysgraphia Children in Malaysia

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4.36) ◽  
pp. 440 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mazeyanti Mohd Ariffin ◽  
Tengku Zarith Nabilah Tengku Othman ◽  
Nor Shakirah Aziz ◽  
Mazlina Mehat ◽  
Noreen Izza Arshad
Keyword(s):  
Learning Disability ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Learning Difficulties ◽  
Usability Testing ◽  
Learning Disorders ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
Improving Writing

Learning Disability (LD) or Learning Disorders refers to the difficulties of obtaining, processing and storing information in their memory. There are several categories of LD including Dyslexia, Autism and Dysgrahia. The term Dysgrahia refers to learning difficulties which associates to writing skills. Commonly, Dysgrahia occurs to schoolchildren. Researchers proposed that Dysgraphia children could be assisted by using supportive learning tools, however the study on learning tools particularly in mobile application for Dysgrahia is still scarce. Thus, the objective of this paper is to report on the development of a mobile application called DysgraphiCoach as well as its usability testing results. The DysgraphiCoach was constructed by using Evolutionary prototyping approach. In future, DysgraphiCoach will be evaluated in terms of its effectiveness in improving writing skills among the Dysgrahia children.  

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