This study,drawing on the commonalities between generative artificial intelligence and foreign language writing instruction,outlines the core ideology of digital humanities-based college English writing instruction,in...This study,drawing on the commonalities between generative artificial intelligence and foreign language writing instruction,outlines the core ideology of digital humanities-based college English writing instruction,including auxiliary use of generative artificial intelligence tools,primary focus on humanistic education,and the re-production of knowledge,aiming to foster students’critical thinking,collaborative skills,and creativity.Building on this foundation,the study delves into generative artificial intelligence tools applicable to different stages of process-genre writing and their strategic applications.The use of generative artificial intelligence tools is beneficial for students to present,discuss,and share writing content,encouraging them to enhance their writing,collaboration,critical thinking,and creative abilities through deep interaction with model essays and creative discourses.展开更多
Teaching writing is an essential component of Chinese education in primary schools and an important foundation for students’reading,writing,and core literacy development.However,due to various reasons,children in the...Teaching writing is an essential component of Chinese education in primary schools and an important foundation for students’reading,writing,and core literacy development.However,due to various reasons,children in the lower grades always face multiple difficulties in the learning task of writing.Based on this educational status quo,this article puts forward strategic suggestions for improving writing skills in the lower grades of primary school.Teachers should analyze students and attend to each student individually,optimize teaching methods,and implement hierarchical teaching.They should also strengthen the training of students’fine motor skills to solidify the physiological foundation for writing.Emphasis should be placed on cultivating the core quality of aesthetic creation.Employing multiple process evaluations can inspire children’s long-term interest in learning.展开更多
Based on research done in the United States,China and other countries on how to teach ELF writing,along with the teachers' experience to train students' aesthetic response, writing skills and critical thinking...Based on research done in the United States,China and other countries on how to teach ELF writing,along with the teachers' experience to train students' aesthetic response, writing skills and critical thinking, which is involved in combining course content, it is proved to be feasible to improve English writing ability among college students of a large class,and then the effective strategies in teaching English writing in a large class are summarized.展开更多
Metacognition has drawn wider research attention in the past decades in the field of teaching English as a foreign language. In this study, questionnaires surveying English learners' use of metacognitive writing s...Metacognition has drawn wider research attention in the past decades in the field of teaching English as a foreign language. In this study, questionnaires surveying English learners' use of metacognitive writing strategies and their writing efficacy were respectively administered. Metacognitive writing strategy intervention was conducted The findings are further discussed with regard to the participants' specific learning context, and pedagogical implications derived from the research highlight the importance of integrating metacognitive writing strategy instruction into regular classroom teaching.展开更多
Peer feedback is an indispensable part in process writing. However, in college English class, students pay less attention to peer feedback than teachers' feedback. What's more, without teachers' guidance, ...Peer feedback is an indispensable part in process writing. However, in college English class, students pay less attention to peer feedback than teachers' feedback. What's more, without teachers' guidance, most of students don't know how to give feedbacks and what feedbacks should be given. Therefore, some strategies should be used to help students to make more effective feedbacks and stimulate students' interest to actively learn from their peers.展开更多
This study examines the writing abilities of Iranian intermediate Korean learners,specifically their performance in the compositional writing section of the Test of Proficiency in Korean(TOPIK).By utilizing the many F...This study examines the writing abilities of Iranian intermediate Korean learners,specifically their performance in the compositional writing section of the Test of Proficiency in Korean(TOPIK).By utilizing the many FACETS-Rasch Model,we meticulously analyzed nine writing samples from the 52nd TOPIK.These samples were evaluated using a modified rubric ranging from 0 to 3 based on predefined criteria for written composition.The results underscored that the sections on“appropriateness of spacing and spelling,”“relevance of vocabulary,”and“content diversity”presented the most significant challenges for the learners.On the other hand,“the quantity of writing”emerged as the least challenging aspect.These findings reveal substantial disparities in various aspects of writing proficiency among learners.The study not only pinpoints issue areas in writing skills,but also underscores the necessity of customized teaching strategies within the TOPIK framework to address these weaknesses.Consequently,it offers valuable insights that could bolster the effectiveness of teaching writing to Korean language learners.The findings of this study are not only significant for the field of language education,but also contribute to a deeper understanding of the challenges faced by intermediate learners and provide a roadmap for improving language instruction.展开更多
The study investigated challenges encountered and coping strategies adopted by postgraduate students of agricultural education in writing thesis in Nigerian universities. Two research questions and two hypotheses guid...The study investigated challenges encountered and coping strategies adopted by postgraduate students of agricultural education in writing thesis in Nigerian universities. Two research questions and two hypotheses guided the study. The study was conducted in Nigerian universities offering post-graduate programme in agricultural education. The population for the study was 118 made up of 14 postgraduate diploma, 66 masters and 38 doctoral students writing thesis in agricultural education. The entire population was involved in the study. An instrument tilted: Challenges and Coping Strategies Questionnaire (CCSQ) was used for data collection. Three experts validated the questionnaire. Cronbach alpha reliability method was used to determine the internal consistency of the questionnaire. A reliability coefficient of 0.85 was obtained. A total of 97 copies of the questionnaire were returned representing 93 percent return rate. Data collected for the study were analyzed using mean and standard deviation to answer the research questions while Analysis of Variance was used to test hypothesis of no significant difference at P ≤ 0.05 level of significance. The statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) was the tool employed to analyze the data collected. It was found out that 28 challenges were encountered by postgraduate students of agricultural education in thesis writing while 15 coping strategies were adopted by postgraduate students of agricultural education in thesis writing. The recommendations were that postgraduate students of agricultural education who have abandoned their thesis writing should adopt the identified coping strategies to complete their programme among others.展开更多
This paper concerns study of learning strategies from language learners. In the light of the types and models of strategies found in the study of ESL (English as a Second Language) learners' strategies abroad, the ...This paper concerns study of learning strategies from language learners. In the light of the types and models of strategies found in the study of ESL (English as a Second Language) learners' strategies abroad, the authors have summed up and induced 3 group learners' writing strategies stated in their reports, with which they have designed the surveying tool by using factor analysis. And then, the authors use descriptive and 1-way ANOVA (Analysis of Variance) analysis of SPSS16.0 (Statistical Program for Social Science) to examine the differences of strategies used by EFL (English as a Foreign Language) learners in China, overseas Chinese ESL learners in Northern Americas and Northern American ENL (English as a Native Language) learners. It is concluded by he results of the study that ENL and ESL learners are good at using various writing strategies. And there are significant differences in using writing strategies between ENL/ESL learners and EFL learners. The authors also conclude that the differences between ESL group and ENL group are not significant, much less than the ones between ESL group and EFL group. The authors make comparative analysis on the causes to the findings on the aspects of class teaching approaches and language learning surroundings, which bring out implications for teaching of English writing in China.展开更多
As one of the five basic skills of learners, writing is to acquire in the course of learning EFL (English as a Foreign Language). Writing is a complex process of language communication and is also a creative thinkin...As one of the five basic skills of learners, writing is to acquire in the course of learning EFL (English as a Foreign Language). Writing is a complex process of language communication and is also a creative thinking process. This paper tries to explore learners' strategies in English writing through the analysis of strategies of avoidance, preparation, language switch and strategy of spelling, and explain some implications of the learners' strategies. It is important to teach learners writing, because learners need to know how to write particular kinds of writing such as letters, reports, reply to advertisements, and they need to know some of the writings' special conventions. Teaching strategies for helping learners throughout the writing process include motivating learners in writing process, preparation for writing, avoidance of translated writing, and effective error correction.展开更多
EFL writing in China is tended to be de-emphasized with the emphasis on oral proficiency in communicative approach.There is ample evidence to indicate the insufficiency in EFL writing course and the ineffectiveness of...EFL writing in China is tended to be de-emphasized with the emphasis on oral proficiency in communicative approach.There is ample evidence to indicate the insufficiency in EFL writing course and the ineffectiveness of students’efforts to develop writing competence.To integrate metacognition into EFL writing instruction will benefit writing instruction by laying emphasis on both approaches to writing instruction,and to train teachers as well as students to teach and learn with metacognition,raising EFL writing instructors’self-awareness in teaching and training students to become self-regulated learners.展开更多
The purpose of this study is to examine the current situation of English writing autonomy and literacy among Chinese college students,to analyze their performance,scale,and distribution as well as influencing factors,...The purpose of this study is to examine the current situation of English writing autonomy and literacy among Chinese college students,to analyze their performance,scale,and distribution as well as influencing factors,and to explore the correlation between English writing autonomy and literacy.This study will provide an in-depth analysis of the current situation of Chinese college students’English writing autonomy and literacy,reveal the scale,distribution,and influencing factors,as well as put forward strategies to enhance them,so as to provide a reference for the reform and development of college English education.展开更多
This paper used case study to investigates the relationship between EFL Reading and EFL Writing in terms of differences in writing strategies with the goal of throwing some light into the flied that has been relativel...This paper used case study to investigates the relationship between EFL Reading and EFL Writing in terms of differences in writing strategies with the goal of throwing some light into the flied that has been relatively untouched.Data were collected from think-aloud protocols of four Chinese undergraduate university students,two proficient readers and two less proficient readers.They first took an English Reading Comprehension Test and English Writing Test to evaluate their reading and writing perfor?mance.Then they were trained to think-aloud in the composing process.Subsequently,they did think aloud as they wrote another essay.The major finding of the study consists with the evidences of other studies that reading and writing are interrelated.And fur?ther revealed that reading influence application of writing strategies and writing performance,which provide pedagogical implica?tion for EFL researchers and educators.展开更多
Customer-oriented strategy is a popular and effective writing principle in business writing.To different customers,the letter writer should adopt to different strategies according to the background of different custom...Customer-oriented strategy is a popular and effective writing principle in business writing.To different customers,the letter writer should adopt to different strategies according to the background of different customers,therefore,the writer can remain good relationship with various customers.展开更多
Compared with well-established research on language learning strategies in second language acquisition, writing research is still inadequate in terms of studies on taxonomies of specific writing strategies. Therefore,...Compared with well-established research on language learning strategies in second language acquisition, writing research is still inadequate in terms of studies on taxonomies of specific writing strategies. Therefore, by reviewing and synthesizing empirical studies on writing strategies, this paper tries to map out the theoretical bases of previous taxonomies and to identify inherent methodological problems in past studies, so as to arrive at a better and fuller understanding of the nature and categories of writing strategies and to come up with feasible suggestions for classroom writing instructions.展开更多
The IELTS(International English Language Testing System)exam has enjoyed its popularity in China for over 30years;still the number of the Chinese candidates is increasing.Undoubtedly,the stability and the scientificit...The IELTS(International English Language Testing System)exam has enjoyed its popularity in China for over 30years;still the number of the Chinese candidates is increasing.Undoubtedly,the stability and the scientificity of this testing system are acknowledged internationally.When it comes to sitting for the IELTS exam,however,the Chinese students often find it very difficult to achieve a band 7 in speaking and writing.The question is,however,why is getting a band 7 such a painful journey for many Chinese IELTS candidates?This report will explore some of the underlying causes and propose possible solutions.Most importantly,the author will share some of his own teaching experience in the preparation of speaking and writing sections for Chinese IELTS candidates in terms of their learning styles and strategies in the IELTS study.展开更多
The purpose of this paper is to find out the advantages of English teaching strategies of writing in Malaysian secondary schools through compare and contrast of the teaching strategies in China and Malaysia. The study...The purpose of this paper is to find out the advantages of English teaching strategies of writing in Malaysian secondary schools through compare and contrast of the teaching strategies in China and Malaysia. The study of this paper focused on the views of the writing skills from Malaysian secondary schools.展开更多
This study aimed at investigating the relationship between writing strategies,and writing ability of Iranian EFL students.The participants were 120 students learning English in the Iranian EFL context.Data were gather...This study aimed at investigating the relationship between writing strategies,and writing ability of Iranian EFL students.The participants were 120 students learning English in the Iranian EFL context.Data were gathered by means of a writing strategies questionnaire and an IELTS writing task.The results of Pearson correlation test revealed that there was a statistically significant relationship between writing strategies,and writing abilities of the participants.The results have some implications for teaching writing in the EFL context.展开更多
This study aimed at investigating the relationship between writing strategies,and writing ability of Iranian EFL students.The participants were 120 students learming English in the Iranian EFL context.Data were gather...This study aimed at investigating the relationship between writing strategies,and writing ability of Iranian EFL students.The participants were 120 students learming English in the Iranian EFL context.Data were gathered by means of a writing strategies questionnaire and an IELTS writing task.The results of Pearson correlation test revealed that there was a statistically significant relationship between writing strategies,and writing abilties of the participants.The results have some implications for teaching writing in the EFL context.展开更多
Emotion is an indispensable factor in English writing.However,product-oriented teaching has paid too much attention to the interior form of writing with ignoring the emotional factors.Based on the analysis of emotiona...Emotion is an indispensable factor in English writing.However,product-oriented teaching has paid too much attention to the interior form of writing with ignoring the emotional factors.Based on the analysis of emotional barriers and corresponding drawbacks caused by the traditional teaching method,this study proposes both communicative approach and process-oriented approach to help college students develop positive emotions in English writing.展开更多
As the ultimate goal of education, autonomy in language learning has aroused a lot of attention from scholars at home and abroad. While in universities of China, students do not have strong autonomy in English languag...As the ultimate goal of education, autonomy in language learning has aroused a lot of attention from scholars at home and abroad. While in universities of China, students do not have strong autonomy in English language learning. The author tries to adopt specific meta-cognitive strategies to facilitate students' autonomy in learning by improving learners' capacities in study planning or management, monitoring and evaluating in learning to raise their consciousness and ability in autonomy, and lay a foundation for life-long learning.展开更多
文摘This study,drawing on the commonalities between generative artificial intelligence and foreign language writing instruction,outlines the core ideology of digital humanities-based college English writing instruction,including auxiliary use of generative artificial intelligence tools,primary focus on humanistic education,and the re-production of knowledge,aiming to foster students’critical thinking,collaborative skills,and creativity.Building on this foundation,the study delves into generative artificial intelligence tools applicable to different stages of process-genre writing and their strategic applications.The use of generative artificial intelligence tools is beneficial for students to present,discuss,and share writing content,encouraging them to enhance their writing,collaboration,critical thinking,and creative abilities through deep interaction with model essays and creative discourses.
文摘Teaching writing is an essential component of Chinese education in primary schools and an important foundation for students’reading,writing,and core literacy development.However,due to various reasons,children in the lower grades always face multiple difficulties in the learning task of writing.Based on this educational status quo,this article puts forward strategic suggestions for improving writing skills in the lower grades of primary school.Teachers should analyze students and attend to each student individually,optimize teaching methods,and implement hierarchical teaching.They should also strengthen the training of students’fine motor skills to solidify the physiological foundation for writing.Emphasis should be placed on cultivating the core quality of aesthetic creation.Employing multiple process evaluations can inspire children’s long-term interest in learning.
文摘Based on research done in the United States,China and other countries on how to teach ELF writing,along with the teachers' experience to train students' aesthetic response, writing skills and critical thinking, which is involved in combining course content, it is proved to be feasible to improve English writing ability among college students of a large class,and then the effective strategies in teaching English writing in a large class are summarized.
文摘Metacognition has drawn wider research attention in the past decades in the field of teaching English as a foreign language. In this study, questionnaires surveying English learners' use of metacognitive writing strategies and their writing efficacy were respectively administered. Metacognitive writing strategy intervention was conducted The findings are further discussed with regard to the participants' specific learning context, and pedagogical implications derived from the research highlight the importance of integrating metacognitive writing strategy instruction into regular classroom teaching.
文摘Peer feedback is an indispensable part in process writing. However, in college English class, students pay less attention to peer feedback than teachers' feedback. What's more, without teachers' guidance, most of students don't know how to give feedbacks and what feedbacks should be given. Therefore, some strategies should be used to help students to make more effective feedbacks and stimulate students' interest to actively learn from their peers.
文摘This study examines the writing abilities of Iranian intermediate Korean learners,specifically their performance in the compositional writing section of the Test of Proficiency in Korean(TOPIK).By utilizing the many FACETS-Rasch Model,we meticulously analyzed nine writing samples from the 52nd TOPIK.These samples were evaluated using a modified rubric ranging from 0 to 3 based on predefined criteria for written composition.The results underscored that the sections on“appropriateness of spacing and spelling,”“relevance of vocabulary,”and“content diversity”presented the most significant challenges for the learners.On the other hand,“the quantity of writing”emerged as the least challenging aspect.These findings reveal substantial disparities in various aspects of writing proficiency among learners.The study not only pinpoints issue areas in writing skills,but also underscores the necessity of customized teaching strategies within the TOPIK framework to address these weaknesses.Consequently,it offers valuable insights that could bolster the effectiveness of teaching writing to Korean language learners.The findings of this study are not only significant for the field of language education,but also contribute to a deeper understanding of the challenges faced by intermediate learners and provide a roadmap for improving language instruction.
文摘The study investigated challenges encountered and coping strategies adopted by postgraduate students of agricultural education in writing thesis in Nigerian universities. Two research questions and two hypotheses guided the study. The study was conducted in Nigerian universities offering post-graduate programme in agricultural education. The population for the study was 118 made up of 14 postgraduate diploma, 66 masters and 38 doctoral students writing thesis in agricultural education. The entire population was involved in the study. An instrument tilted: Challenges and Coping Strategies Questionnaire (CCSQ) was used for data collection. Three experts validated the questionnaire. Cronbach alpha reliability method was used to determine the internal consistency of the questionnaire. A reliability coefficient of 0.85 was obtained. A total of 97 copies of the questionnaire were returned representing 93 percent return rate. Data collected for the study were analyzed using mean and standard deviation to answer the research questions while Analysis of Variance was used to test hypothesis of no significant difference at P ≤ 0.05 level of significance. The statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) was the tool employed to analyze the data collected. It was found out that 28 challenges were encountered by postgraduate students of agricultural education in thesis writing while 15 coping strategies were adopted by postgraduate students of agricultural education in thesis writing. The recommendations were that postgraduate students of agricultural education who have abandoned their thesis writing should adopt the identified coping strategies to complete their programme among others.
文摘This paper concerns study of learning strategies from language learners. In the light of the types and models of strategies found in the study of ESL (English as a Second Language) learners' strategies abroad, the authors have summed up and induced 3 group learners' writing strategies stated in their reports, with which they have designed the surveying tool by using factor analysis. And then, the authors use descriptive and 1-way ANOVA (Analysis of Variance) analysis of SPSS16.0 (Statistical Program for Social Science) to examine the differences of strategies used by EFL (English as a Foreign Language) learners in China, overseas Chinese ESL learners in Northern Americas and Northern American ENL (English as a Native Language) learners. It is concluded by he results of the study that ENL and ESL learners are good at using various writing strategies. And there are significant differences in using writing strategies between ENL/ESL learners and EFL learners. The authors also conclude that the differences between ESL group and ENL group are not significant, much less than the ones between ESL group and EFL group. The authors make comparative analysis on the causes to the findings on the aspects of class teaching approaches and language learning surroundings, which bring out implications for teaching of English writing in China.
文摘As one of the five basic skills of learners, writing is to acquire in the course of learning EFL (English as a Foreign Language). Writing is a complex process of language communication and is also a creative thinking process. This paper tries to explore learners' strategies in English writing through the analysis of strategies of avoidance, preparation, language switch and strategy of spelling, and explain some implications of the learners' strategies. It is important to teach learners writing, because learners need to know how to write particular kinds of writing such as letters, reports, reply to advertisements, and they need to know some of the writings' special conventions. Teaching strategies for helping learners throughout the writing process include motivating learners in writing process, preparation for writing, avoidance of translated writing, and effective error correction.
文摘EFL writing in China is tended to be de-emphasized with the emphasis on oral proficiency in communicative approach.There is ample evidence to indicate the insufficiency in EFL writing course and the ineffectiveness of students’efforts to develop writing competence.To integrate metacognition into EFL writing instruction will benefit writing instruction by laying emphasis on both approaches to writing instruction,and to train teachers as well as students to teach and learn with metacognition,raising EFL writing instructors’self-awareness in teaching and training students to become self-regulated learners.
文摘The purpose of this study is to examine the current situation of English writing autonomy and literacy among Chinese college students,to analyze their performance,scale,and distribution as well as influencing factors,and to explore the correlation between English writing autonomy and literacy.This study will provide an in-depth analysis of the current situation of Chinese college students’English writing autonomy and literacy,reveal the scale,distribution,and influencing factors,as well as put forward strategies to enhance them,so as to provide a reference for the reform and development of college English education.
文摘This paper used case study to investigates the relationship between EFL Reading and EFL Writing in terms of differences in writing strategies with the goal of throwing some light into the flied that has been relatively untouched.Data were collected from think-aloud protocols of four Chinese undergraduate university students,two proficient readers and two less proficient readers.They first took an English Reading Comprehension Test and English Writing Test to evaluate their reading and writing perfor?mance.Then they were trained to think-aloud in the composing process.Subsequently,they did think aloud as they wrote another essay.The major finding of the study consists with the evidences of other studies that reading and writing are interrelated.And fur?ther revealed that reading influence application of writing strategies and writing performance,which provide pedagogical implica?tion for EFL researchers and educators.
文摘Customer-oriented strategy is a popular and effective writing principle in business writing.To different customers,the letter writer should adopt to different strategies according to the background of different customers,therefore,the writer can remain good relationship with various customers.
文摘Compared with well-established research on language learning strategies in second language acquisition, writing research is still inadequate in terms of studies on taxonomies of specific writing strategies. Therefore, by reviewing and synthesizing empirical studies on writing strategies, this paper tries to map out the theoretical bases of previous taxonomies and to identify inherent methodological problems in past studies, so as to arrive at a better and fuller understanding of the nature and categories of writing strategies and to come up with feasible suggestions for classroom writing instructions.
文摘The IELTS(International English Language Testing System)exam has enjoyed its popularity in China for over 30years;still the number of the Chinese candidates is increasing.Undoubtedly,the stability and the scientificity of this testing system are acknowledged internationally.When it comes to sitting for the IELTS exam,however,the Chinese students often find it very difficult to achieve a band 7 in speaking and writing.The question is,however,why is getting a band 7 such a painful journey for many Chinese IELTS candidates?This report will explore some of the underlying causes and propose possible solutions.Most importantly,the author will share some of his own teaching experience in the preparation of speaking and writing sections for Chinese IELTS candidates in terms of their learning styles and strategies in the IELTS study.
文摘The purpose of this paper is to find out the advantages of English teaching strategies of writing in Malaysian secondary schools through compare and contrast of the teaching strategies in China and Malaysia. The study of this paper focused on the views of the writing skills from Malaysian secondary schools.
文摘This study aimed at investigating the relationship between writing strategies,and writing ability of Iranian EFL students.The participants were 120 students learning English in the Iranian EFL context.Data were gathered by means of a writing strategies questionnaire and an IELTS writing task.The results of Pearson correlation test revealed that there was a statistically significant relationship between writing strategies,and writing abilities of the participants.The results have some implications for teaching writing in the EFL context.
文摘This study aimed at investigating the relationship between writing strategies,and writing ability of Iranian EFL students.The participants were 120 students learming English in the Iranian EFL context.Data were gathered by means of a writing strategies questionnaire and an IELTS writing task.The results of Pearson correlation test revealed that there was a statistically significant relationship between writing strategies,and writing abilties of the participants.The results have some implications for teaching writing in the EFL context.
文摘Emotion is an indispensable factor in English writing.However,product-oriented teaching has paid too much attention to the interior form of writing with ignoring the emotional factors.Based on the analysis of emotional barriers and corresponding drawbacks caused by the traditional teaching method,this study proposes both communicative approach and process-oriented approach to help college students develop positive emotions in English writing.
文摘As the ultimate goal of education, autonomy in language learning has aroused a lot of attention from scholars at home and abroad. While in universities of China, students do not have strong autonomy in English language learning. The author tries to adopt specific meta-cognitive strategies to facilitate students' autonomy in learning by improving learners' capacities in study planning or management, monitoring and evaluating in learning to raise their consciousness and ability in autonomy, and lay a foundation for life-long learning.