Writing Skills Development (MERLOT, Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching). Provides links to sites that offer guidelines and tutorials on a variety of writing topics, including rubrics for assessing writing. See also the MERLOT English Portal (Language) for access to a broad range of materials for teaching and assessing writing. http://pedagogy.merlot.org/WritingSkil...

Writing Skills Development (MERLOT, Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching). Provides links to sites that offer guidelines and tutorials on a variety of writing topics, including rubrics for assessing writing. See also the MERLOT English Portal (Language) for access to a broad range of materials for teaching and assessing writing. http://pedagogy.merlot.org/WritingSkil...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the relationship between social word use in autobiographies and longevity. Although there is substantial evidence that our social relationships are associated with mortality, interpretation of this work is weakened by the limitations of assessing the social environment with structured questionnaires and interviews. By analyzing the word content of autobiographies, we could ...

This study compared the effects of teacher-provided direct and indirect written corrective feedback and manipulation of resource-directing dimensions of task cognitive complexity along +/- Here and Now condition on the grammatical accuracy of Iranian intermediate EFL learners’ narrative writing tasks. There were 45 participants in the study who were randomly assigned to three experimental group...

abstract the extent to which teachers’ written corrective feedback (wcf) is conducive to esl learners’ improvement has been discussed since truscott’s claim in 1996. the mentioned debate continues because there has been lots of contrastive research studies with different results. this paper presents the results of a 2-month study of the effectiveness of wcf to 65 low intermediate iranian learne...