ESL student reaction to written comments on their written work

Iranian EFL Learners’ Reactions to Different Feedbacks in Writing Classrooms: Teacher Written Comments (TWC) vs. Peer Written Comments (PWC)

The teaching of writing has recently begun to move away from a concentration on the written product to an emphasis on the process of writing. Feedback is a fundamental element of the process approach to writing. It can be defined as input from a reader to a writer with the effect of providing information to the writer for a revision. This study reports on the effectiveness of two types of feedb...

Appendix C Submitted Written Comments

Imperatives or “I’d like” Statements: Suggestions in Instructors’ Written Feedback for ESL Student Writers

Little research has been conducted to investigate highly advanced ESL learners’ written production of suggestions when addressing interlocutors of lower social power. The present study fills this gap by examining non-native speaking (NNS) composition instructors’ pragmatic choices of suggestions as compared to those made by their native speaking (NS) counterparts when providing written feedback...

Unsolicited written comments: an untapped data source.

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To explore methods for analysis of unsolicited comments written on forced-choice surveys related to health-related quality of life (HRQOL) among men treated for prostate cancer. DATA SOURCES Unsolicited comments written on surveys administered as part of a study investigating HRQOL for men receiving surgery, external beam radiation therapy, or brachytherapy for prostate can...

Evaluating Quality of Student-Written Tests

Software testing is important, but judging whether a set of software tests are effective is hard. The same problem also appears in the classroom as educators frequently include software testing activities in assignments. While tests can be hand-graded, some educators use objective performance metrics to assess software tests, just as professionals do. The most common measures used at present ar...