essay scoring systems have been made available (PEG;Page 1966; e-rater®Burstein et al., 1998; Intelligent Essay AssessorTm;Foltz, Kintsch, and Landauer 1998; and, Intellimetric TM ; Elliot, 2003). In addition, based on the demands of users of the automated scoring technology, tools have been developed that perform more detailed evaluations of student writing. One such application is Critique Wr...

The purpose of this study was to examine which emergent literacy skills contribute to preschool children's emergent writing (name-writing, letter-writing, and spelling) skills. Emergent reading and writing tasks were administered to 296 preschool children aged 4-5 years. Print knowledge and letter-writing skills made positive contributions to name writing; whereas alphabet knowledge, print know...

This study investigated the impact of writing checklist on composing descriptive essays among EFL learners at the intermediate level. Sixty participants were assigned to experimental and control groups. Both groups were given a pre-test of writing a descriptive essay including 150 words. The experimental group used checklist for learning while the control used teacher correcting technique in ea...

This study is primarily designed for investigating the tertiary students’ perspectives on writing difficulties of essays. was conducted in explanatory research which quantitative and qualitative data were obtained from web-based questionnaire semi-structured interview, then analyzed separately. 21 undergraduate students have enrolled survey 6 them invited to interview section. reveals students'...

The study aimed to investigate the relationship between process writing (PW) and critical thinking (CT) ability of Iranian EFL learners. Furthermore, the role of PW in the enhancement of CT was investigated. In so doing, 125 upper-intermediate language learners were selected from Islamic Azad University based on convenience sampling. The results of pretest administration indicated that particip...

Computational indices related to n-gram production were developed in order to assess the potential for n-gram indices to predict human scores of essay quality. A regression analyses was conducted on a corpus of 313 argumentative essays. The analyses demonstrated that a variety of n-gram indices were highly correlated to essay quality, but were also highly correlated to the number of words in th...

This study explores the centrality of the technology integration to Chinese EFL students' experiences in College English instruction. Students involved in this qualitative and quantitative study described the effectiveness of Web-based instructional environments (WBIEs) facilitated by the WebNing course management systems. Sources that were used for data analysis include online survey and oral ...

Abstract Writing on-demand, text-based analytical essays is a challenging skill to master. Novice writers, such as the sixth grade US students in this study, may lack background knowledge of how compose an effective essay, self-efficacy skills, and goal setting skills that will help with completing task accomplished ways. This sequential mixed-method study explored impact guiding predominantly ...