The cohesive devices are one of the important aspects academic writing that has been recognized as a fundamental characteristic good writing. aims this study to find out types used by students and identify error using when composing an argumentative text. This recruited ten from fifth semester English language program in 2021/2022 year. research approach was descriptive qualitative. entire data...

The field of ELT is constantly witnessing the introduction of new instructional approaches: one such perhaps recent initiative is critical discourse analysis (CDA). Accordingly, the present study was an attempt to investigate the impact of CDA instruction on Iranian EFL learners’ descriptive and argumentative writing ability. To fulfill the aforementioned purpose, a sample TOEFL was primarily p...

We present an evaluation of the Writing Pal (W-Pal) intelligent tutoring system (ITS) and the W-Pal automated writing evaluation (AWE) system through the use of computational indices related to text cohesion. Sixty-four students participated in this study. Each student was assigned to either the WPal ITS condition or the W-Pal AWE condition. The W-Pal ITS includes strategy instruction, game-bas...

With the innovation of computer technology and the application of the new network technology, many auxiliary network teaching and learning software and programs related to English teaching has emerged. Automated essay scoring system is a revolutionary innovation network system, in recent years, it makes the reform of English essay teaching mode more feasible. Basing on the network automated ess...

Essay writing may be one of the most important skills that you will learn in the course of your undergraduate degree. It will prove invaluable for you whether you continue on to graduate school, pursue a J. D. degree in a Law School, or move directly into a professional career. Perhaps you will come to enjoy essay writing for its own sake; in any event, you will find that there is an enormous d...

Argumentation skills of secondary school students were evaluated in Finland (n=290), France (n=54), and England (n=41). The data were collected from 4 tasks comprising 7 variables. The results indicated that most of the students had correctly justified arguments and conclusions, and composed clear claims and relevant arguments. However, many students had difficulties in recognising the main cla...

Traditional automated essay scoring systems rely on carefully designed features to evaluate and score essays. The performance of such systems is tightly bound to the quality of the underlying features. However, it is laborious to manually design the most informative features for such a system. In this thesis, we develop a novel approach based on recurrent neural networks to learn the relation b...