Cognitive Predictors of Coherence in Adult ESL Learners’ Writing

Negative Language Transfer Reflected in ESL Learners’ English Writing

Using Coh-Metrix to Analyze Chinese ESL Learners’ Writing

Scoring essays is costly, laborious and time-consuming. Automated scoring of essays is a promising approach to face this challenge. Coh-Metrix is a computer tool that reports on cohesion, sentence complexity, lexical sophistication and other descriptive features at sentenceand paragraph-level. It has been widely used to analyze native English speakers’ essay writing. However, few studies have u...

the effect of task cognitive complexity and time limit on the performance of the learners with different proficiency levels in second language writing skill

this study investigated the effects of manipulating the cognitive complexity of tasks along +/- few elements and the time limits on l2 learners writing performance. to conduct the study, 60 iranian efl learners with two levels of proficiency, low and high intermediate, were selected and assigned to three groups based on the time devoted to task completion. the participants performed both a simp...

the effect analysis of proficiency on language - switching in iranian efl learners writing

abstract in a protocol analysis of second language writing from 20 adult english as a foreign language (efl) iranian students, this research observed how language-switching (l-s), i.e., first language use in l2 writing, was affected by l2 proficiency. switching interactively between first (l1) and second (l2) languages has been recognized as one of the salient characteristics of l2 writing....

Grammar, Writing, and Technology: A Sample Technology-supported Approach to Teaching Grammar and Improving Writing for ESL Learners

English language learners are frequently unable to benefit from the prevailing process-writing approaches due to a lack of grammar and vocabulary knowledge relevant to academic writing. This paper describes how the need for explicit grammar instruction as part of preparing students to write can be addressed by using a collection of learner texts and transforming that collection into an online g...