ESL Teachers' Scaffolding Strategies to Teach Writing

Pre-Service Teachers’ Attitudes about Writing and Learning To Teach Writing: Implications for Teacher Educators

Teaching ESL Beginners Metacognitive Writing Strategies Through Multimedia Software

This case study explores how strategy-based instruction (SBI), assisted by multimedia software, can be incorporated to teach beginning-level ESL learners metacognitive writing strategies. Two beginning-level adult learners participated in a 10-session SBI on planning and organizing strategies. The Cognitive Academic Language Learning Approach (CALLA) was implemented with the aid of graphic orga...

Scaffolding Advanced Writing through Writing Frames

Mastering writing has always proved an almost insurmountable barrier to EFL learners. In an attempt to alleviate problems advanced EFL learners have with writing, this study aimed at investigating the effect of scaffolded instruction through writing frames constructed from extended prefabricated lexical bundles. 40 female advanced English students, selected out of a population of 65, were rando...

Putting scaffolding to work: The contribution of scaffolding in articulating ESL education

In this paper we report on outcomes from recent research in which we have worked with the metaphor of ‘scaffolding’ to address questions about the nature of English as a Second Language (ESL) education. This work has involved a cyclical process: first, of drawing on developments in sociocultural theories of learning and on systemic linguistics in order to analyse and articulate the kinds of ped...

Using Online Corpora Databases to Improve ESL Writing

This paper summerizes the technical specifications and design principles of an online search tool we developed to help English as a Second Language (ESL) learners in certain aspects of writing. The problem we identified is the confusion caused by either first language interference (L1 interference) whereby literal translation erroneously combines with English words, or because certain words in ...