scholarly journals Writing Development Through Materials That Focus on Peer Feedback in an EFL Context

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-56
Author(s):  
Adriana María Salinas
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Peer Feedback ◽  
Eighth Graders ◽  
Writing Development ◽  
Efl Context ◽  
Eighth Grade Students ◽  
Language Writing ◽  
Field Notes

This paper reports on the findings of a research project carried out in order to analyze how English as a foreign language writing evolves when eighth graders from José Max León School are engaged in developing worksheets that focus on peer feedback. This study emerged from my concern that most of my eighth-grade students did not consider my feedback during the writing process. To collect and manage the data of this action research study, I used the qualitative approach and three instruments: field notes, students’ artifacts, and a survey. The results presented a significant improvement in the students’ writing skills thanks to the implementation of peer feedback. Additionally, the worksheets implemented were relevant for students since they were based on appealing content, which contributed to enhancing their engagement and feedback participation.

scholarly journals A Qualitative Research on Portfolio Keeping in English as a Foreign Language Writing

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Selami Aydin
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Learning Tool ◽  
Efl Writing ◽  
Sample Group ◽  
Potential Problems ◽  
Language Writing

Little attention has been paid to the problems about portfolio keeping in English as a foreign language (EFL) writing, while the existing literature mostly focuses on the effects of portfolios on writing skills of learners, rather than those of teachers or pre-service teachers. This study aims to investigate the problems encountered and contributions of portfolios to the language skills of EFL pre-service teachers. The sample group consists of 39 pre-service teachers; a background questionnaire, interviews, a survey, and essays were used for data collection. The results indicate that portfolios significantly contribute to the writing skills, and that there exist potential problems. It was concluded that teachers and teacher trainers should use portfolio as a learning tool after solving the problems.

The effectiveness of integrating technology in EFL/ESL writing: a meta-analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 435-454
Author(s):  
Baleigh Qassem Al-Wasy
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Proficiency ◽  
Effect Size ◽  
Educational Level ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Integrating Technology ◽  
Language Writing ◽  
Language Context

Purpose This paper aims to highlight a research on integrating technology into teaching and learning of second/foreign language writing. Design/methodology/approach In total, 18 empirical studies, involving a total of 1,281 second and foreign language learners, have been reviewed. These studies are selected from the following two databases: Web of Science and Google Scholar. The meta-analysis investigates how effect sizes vary depending on these moderators as follows: stage of writing, language context, learners’ educational level and language proficiency level. Findings The findings of this meta-analysis have indicated that technology has a large effect on second/foreign language writing (d = 1.7217). These findings have also revealed that the two stages of writing, drafting and editing, have received most of the researchers’ concern. In addition, high school and university learners have achieved a larger effect size of using technology in writing learning; beginner learners have achieved the smallest effect size. Originality/value To sum, the previous meta-analyses and reviews tried to explore the effect of computer on writing skills. However, some of them were limited to special groups (Williams and Beam, 2019) and some others analyzed very few studies (Little et al., 2018). Therefore, a comprehensive analysis of the effect of implementing technology in writing skills is needed. The purpose of this study is to perform a meta-analysis of the primary studies about the integration of technology into writing skills. The primary goals of this meta-analysis were to: examine the overall effects of implementing technology in writing; synthesize the relationship between technology and a number of moderators such as stages of writing, language context, learners’ target language proficiency and learners’ educational level (school and university).

An integrated approach to foreign language writing instruction

2004 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-57
Author(s):  
Corinne Mesana
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Writing Instruction ◽  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
Peer Assessment ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Integrative Approach ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Foreign Language Writing ◽  
Language Writing

Abstract This paper puts forth the need for further integration of research on writing-as-a-process in foreign language writing and teaching practices. Several problems are identified concerning the teaching and learning of writing skills, as most teachers attend to the product – its originality, clarity and correctness, and recent popular textbooks on French language and culture still focus on the product and rarely on the process. The extensive research on writing-as-a-process in both Francophone and North American applied linguistics for L1 and L2 does not seem to have had the same repercussions on foreign language teaching or material development as it did on L2 writing skills for ESL/EFL. Here, I propose an integrative approach to writing instruction comprising different findings in process writing, self- and peer-assessment and cross-cultural awareness. The design of a six-step approach stems from a recent book on the pedagogy of writing skills (Mesana-Alais, 2001) and shows how to explore and produce genre-based texts.

scholarly journals A Guided Reading of Images: A Strategy to Develop Critical Thinking and Communicative Skills

2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 72
Author(s):  
Marisol Sarmiento Sierra
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Guided Reading ◽  
Third Graders ◽  
Mental Processes ◽  
Communicative Skills ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Efl Context ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Field Notes

This article describes the effects of a strategy aimed at helping students develop critical thinking and communicative skills by means of a program for guided reading of images using the questioning technique in an EFL context. Many teachers are not prepared for the education of critical thinkers as part of their curricular work. This is a qualitative descriptive research study carried out with third graders from a public school in Bogotá, Colombia in which field notes, artifacts, and questionnaires were used as data collection instruments. The study showed that the program activated children’s mental processes to allow them to move from basic to higher levels of critical thinking while communicating their thoughts in Spanish as well as using vocabulary in English. This  strategy could be used by teachers of different disciplines.

scholarly journals Practitioners’ Perspectives on the Application of Integration Theory in the Saudi EFL Context

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 93
Author(s):  
Mansoor S. Almalki ◽  
Abdul Fattah Soomro
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Lesson Plan ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
Integration Theory ◽  
Traditional Model ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
Written Responses ◽  
Efl Context ◽  
Efl Teachers

There is a close connection between reading and writing. Several studies suggest integrating reading in the instruction of teaching writing skills to English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learner.  This study seeks to determine the extent Saudi EFL teachers support, apply and understand the theory of integration between reading and writing. To achieve the research objectives, the researcher compiled two lesson plans; one based on the integration theory and the other, based on a traditional model to see which lesson plan teacher-participants chose to teach writing. The data was then collected through questionnaire containing both closed and open-ended questions to determine the implications of the results in relation to the objectives of the research. The major findings of this research project were that, for the ten EFL teachers surveyed, most of the teachers indicated that they usually taught writing as a separate skill apart from reading, and the written responses from the open-ended questions that was analyzed indicated that the teachers taught writing in the traditional way. The results from the ten participants’ responses also suggested that almost none of the participants were familiar with the concept of integrating reading and writing for the purposes of teaching writing. However, most of the respondents did comment that they agree with the idea of integrating reading in the instruction of teaching the writing skills and given a choice of a lesson plan, most of the teachers choose the integrated lesson plan.

Implementing effective strategies and techniques in teaching foreign language writing in secondary school

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina Lutsova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Text Type ◽  
Foreign Language Writing ◽  
Effective Strategies ◽  
Literary Sources ◽  
Language Writing ◽  
Science High School ◽  
Genre Writing ◽  
Development Of Language

The purpose of the following study is to review the literature on the topic and to present a pedagogical experience of integrating effective techniques for developing writing skills in English as a foreign language. The experiment was carried out with 24 eight grade students (experimental group) of the Maths and Science High school “Academician Ivan Gyuzelev” – Gabrovo provided with an intensive learning curriculum for English as a foreign language. The techniques which are applied in the experiment focus on the development of language knowledge (product writing) and teaching students to create written texts by drafting, reviewing, editing and redrafting (process writing). In addition to these, the analysis of the characteristics of an email text type (genre writing) was also used to evaluate the students’ comprehension. The review of literary sources and the presented pedagogical experiment are a part of a didactically experimental model for developing foreign language writing skills.

Wiki effect on English as a foreign language writing achievement

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 218-227
Author(s):  
Seyda Savran Celik ◽  
Selami Aydin
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Writing Achievement ◽  
Efl Writing ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Sample Group ◽  
Efl Context ◽  
Language Writing ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Efl Learning

The number of the studies conducted on the use of wikis on the English as a foreign language (EFL) learning process has remained fairly limited. More specifically, in the Turkish EFL context, little attention has been paid to the effects of wikis on EFL writing achievement. Thus, this study aims to examine the effects of a wiki-based writing environment in terms of EFL writing achievement in the Turkish EFL context. In this experimental study, a background questionnaire, a writing achievement pre- and a post-test were administered to a sample group of 42 EFL learners. Results indicate that the use of wiki-based online writing environment increases writing achievement regarding content. It is recommended that wikis as appropriate tools to increase learners’ EFL writing achievement should be integrated into the EFL learning process. The advantages that wikis serve should not be ignored but exploited by the teachersKeywords:English as a foreign language, wiki, writing, achievement

scholarly journals The Effect of Online Feedback Types on Foreign Language Writing

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 733
Author(s):  
Xiaoling Liu ◽  
Changping Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Peer Feedback ◽  
Teacher Feedback ◽  
Foreign Language Writing ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Language Writing ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Online Teacher ◽  
Online Feedback

In this study a comparison is made concerning the effect of online teacher feedback and online peer feedback on foreign language writing and the learners’ attitudes toward online feedbacks. To address the issues, an experiment is carried out between two university classes, who received online teacher feedback and online teacher feedback respectively. Based on the analysis, the major findings are obtained as follows. Firstly, the writing in each group has been improved significantly after the application of online feedback. However, no significant difference is shown between groups A and B. Secondly, students in both groups can incorporate feedback into their revisions, though there exist some differences in the number of successful revisions and kinds of revisions between the two groups. Finally, both online teacher feedback and online peer feedback are very well received by most students respectively. The research findings indicate that online feedback should be adopted in foreign language writing teaching.

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