The nature of peer feedback and its impacts on writing in English has attracted much attention of researchers and educators. Recent studies have indicated various types of peer feedback and its positive effects on writing development. This paper presents the results of an investigation into the nature of peer feedback and its effects on learners' writing argumentative essays in a Vietnamese con...

This study adopted a pre-test–post-test design to explore gender differences in argumentative essay writing and peer review performance uptake within higher education context. To do this, as part of bigger project, 101 students were asked individually write an essay, engage activities revise their original based on the received reviews from peers. The findings showed that female perform better ...

the present study seeks to introduce and investigate an approach to teaching writing in the efl classroom which draws heavily on the use of formulaic expressions. in contrast to its predecessors, this approach includes both the application of process writing techniques and the teaching of grammar and vocabulary into its syllabus. two groups of 30 efl learners participated in this study. one gro...

This study examines links between human ratings of writing quality and the incidence argumentative features (e.g., claims, data) in persuasive essays along with relationships among these their distance from one another within an essay. The goal is to better understand how argumentation elements combine model essay quality. finds that, most cases, it not presence that predictive but rather super...

Essay stance classification, the task of determining how much an essay’s author agrees with a given proposition, is an important yet under-investigated subtask in understanding an argumentative essay’s overall content. We introduce a new corpus of argumentative student essays annotated with stance information and propose a computational model for automatically predicting essay stance. In an eva...