Designing the argumentative essay test instrument based on critical thinking skills is step to produce writing used for measuring students’ performance in with skills. This study aimed at validity and reliability of The procedure create credible was conducted by testing valid reliable. process validating through content expert validation. making reliable done checking score students tested tryi...

In peer feedback literature, little is known about the patterns of success for activities in online learning environments. This study aims to explore successful, less and unsuccessful higher education students argumentative essay writing. this exploratory study, 330 were asked perform three tasks consecutive weeks. first week, they write an essay. second provided two sets on their peers’ essays...

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...

The investigation attempted to measure the effect of learning style preference across two different writing strategies in classes. 58 subjects recruited from L2 classes comprised 19 visual, 21 auditory, and 18 kinesthetic learners. A 3x2 analysis variance test was applied work with experimental data. output confirmed a statistically significant interaction occurred among types strategy (x1) (x2...

The present study was designed to initially test a model of the role of a set of cognitive (namely, aptitude and working memory) and motivational (namely, language learning goals, self-efficacy beliefs and self-regulation strategy use) individual differences variables in writing performance of a group of Iranian undergraduate EFL learners and, subsequently, to identify the possible differences ...

This study aims to examine a design of computer-supported collaborative learning environment featured by Knowledge Forum with embedded teacher-student codesigned scaffolds and group portfolios as an assessment tool for Chinese tertiary business students and to further investigate how academic literacy develops in the designed environment. Four intact classes with 127 Year 1 students participate...

Although freewriting strategies are commonly taught in composition courses, there have been few empirical studies on freewriting. We address this gap by examining effects of prior writing skills (as measured by a pre-write essay), freewriting training, text-box size (1, 10, 20 lines), and repetitive writing on freewriting quality. Participants watched an agent-based vicarious learning freewriti...

Despite the crucial role of introductory sections in argumentative academic writing, the effects of genre- based approaches to writing introductory paragraphs have not been much explored yet. The present study aimed to investigate whether the provision of genre knowledge through modeling and non-modeling could enhance learners’ ability in writing introductory paragraphs of argumentative essays....