This study,drawing on the commonalities between generative artificial intelligence and foreign language writing instruction,outlines the core ideology of digital humanities-based college English writing instruction,in...This study,drawing on the commonalities between generative artificial intelligence and foreign language writing instruction,outlines the core ideology of digital humanities-based college English writing instruction,including auxiliary use of generative artificial intelligence tools,primary focus on humanistic education,and the re-production of knowledge,aiming to foster students’critical thinking,collaborative skills,and creativity.Building on this foundation,the study delves into generative artificial intelligence tools applicable to different stages of process-genre writing and their strategic applications.The use of generative artificial intelligence tools is beneficial for students to present,discuss,and share writing content,encouraging them to enhance their writing,collaboration,critical thinking,and creative abilities through deep interaction with model essays and creative discourses.展开更多
This paper is designed to explore whether the theory of text linguistics,especially the knowledge of cohesion,coherence and cohesive devices could be applied in college English writing teaching to help improve student...This paper is designed to explore whether the theory of text linguistics,especially the knowledge of cohesion,coherence and cohesive devices could be applied in college English writing teaching to help improve students’writing abilities.Besides,the author puts forward some suggestions for both English teachers and learners.展开更多
The paper mainly focuses on peer feedback--one specific approach to teach writing. After analyzing the current practice in English writing instruction in Chinese tertiary institutions and reviewing YANG, Badger and YU...The paper mainly focuses on peer feedback--one specific approach to teach writing. After analyzing the current practice in English writing instruction in Chinese tertiary institutions and reviewing YANG, Badger and YU＇s （2006） empirical research study, the author evaluates the suitability of peer feedback approach in a Chinese college context. Hopes that it may offer and challenges which might be faced, are discussed as well.展开更多
Flipped classroom has become a topic of interest in education.The question of whether high school English writing instruction can be integrated with flipped classroom is of utmost concern.In consideration of the chara...Flipped classroom has become a topic of interest in education.The question of whether high school English writing instruction can be integrated with flipped classroom is of utmost concern.In consideration of the characteristics of both elements based on the constructivist theory,and the integration of language knowledge,background knowledge,as well as discourse knowledge into English writing instruction,this study designs a high school English writing instruction model based on flipped classroom.Both the flipped classroom and English writing instruction focus on constructing meaning in learning,thus providing a flipped classroom model for English writing instruction in high schools.展开更多
The digital transformation of international Chinese language education is an important direction for enhancing the global dissemination effectiveness of the Chinese language.In teaching Chinese as a second language,wr...The digital transformation of international Chinese language education is an important direction for enhancing the global dissemination effectiveness of the Chinese language.In teaching Chinese as a second language,writing,as a form of higher-order language output,has long faced challenges such as insufficient teacher resources,lagging feedback,and a lack of personalized support.Generative artificial intelligence(GAI)offers a new path for teaching Chinese writing.This study,with intermediate Chinese learners as the subjects,systematically explores the effectiveness of GAI-assisted Chinese writing instruction through a combination of controlled experiments and interviews based on a Chinese learning platform embedded with GAI.The study found that the GAI class was significantly superior to the traditional class in terms of the adequacy dimension of content quality and the grammatical and lexical dimensions of language quality;teachers and GAI play complementary roles in this process;most Chinese learners have a positive attitude towards this model.Based on the above findings,this study presents three suggestions:using GAI to empower Chinese writing instruction,giving full play to the complementary advantages of human and machine,and enhancing the AI literacy of teachers and students to achieve two-way empowerment of human and machine,with the aim of promoting the intelligent development of international Chinese education.展开更多
In recent years student-centred peer response has become such a widely used teaching method in English writing instruction that numerous articles have been produced to discuss the advantages and strategies of this app...In recent years student-centred peer response has become such a widely used teaching method in English writing instruction that numerous articles have been produced to discuss the advantages and strategies of this approach. But is this method effective in our teaching context? What do our students think of it? This study investigated perceptions of helpfulness of peer response among 22 advanced English major students. Data collected over one semester through observations, interviews and questionnaires revealed that participants have very negative reactions to peer response, which challenges some beliefs about the affective and pedagogical advantages of peer response. The author's findings further suggest that training students to do peer response is essential in English writing instruction.展开更多
Peer response activities take place in different modes, and the different modes affect the roles participants play. These modes can be written, oral, or a combination of both. The purpose of this study is to see how t...Peer response activities take place in different modes, and the different modes affect the roles participants play. These modes can be written, oral, or a combination of both. The purpose of this study is to see how teacher-response, peer-response, and a combination of both in oral mode can be effective in accomplishing the learning/teaching goals of both the students and the teachers in a collaborative Iranian setting to achieve this goal, the researcher chose 60 students as the eligible members of the sample participating in this study. The participants--15 males and 45 females--were all Iranian Persian native speakers aged between 22 and 25 majoring in English translation at university level. They were assigned to three homogeneous groups based on the obtained scores on Oxford Placement Test and a sample paragraph on a given topic, emphasizing the expository genre. They covered five topics in a sequence of ten written texts--before and after receiving feedback--over a 15-week semester. All the written tasks were collected and scored analytically to track any improvement and assay the effects of different feedback sources on students＇ writing performances. The results revealed that： First, oral feedback had a significant effect on students＇ revised drafts and students incorporated the comments provided by the teacher, peers, or both in the process of draft editing; Second, of the three feedback sources the students benefited from teacher＇s feedback more than peers＇ feedback; and finally, the collaborative oral feedback model had a significant effect on students＇ writing. In addition, this method provided a practical foreign-language-learning experience for the Iranian students to share their common linguistic goals and gave a new sense to collaborative learning tasks in EFL writing classes.展开更多
For the past several decades, it has been clear that the ability to write texts for academic and professional purposes （＂academic writing＂ in this article） is key to the success of adults in U.S. society--in schoo...For the past several decades, it has been clear that the ability to write texts for academic and professional purposes （＂academic writing＂ in this article） is key to the success of adults in U.S. society--in school, in university courses, on tests that they need to take to progress through learning and into work, and in the workforce. Academic writing has specific features and involves approaches that are different from much of the writing that is done with adult learners, particularly those learning English as an additional language （e.g., described in reviews by Hinkel, 2015; Leki, Cumming, ＆ Silva, 2008; and a survey by Rosenfeld, Courtney, ＆ Fowles, 2004）. However, a recent survey of adult educators, conducted by the authors, found that academic writing has not been a focus in many adult education programs, and teachers receive limited professional development in this area and instructional support in implementing it. This article describes the importance of academic writing at all levels of adult education, the key features of academic writing, and the current state of writing instruction in adult education programs. It then describes the motivation for, design, and outcomes of a survey of and interviews with adult educators across the country on their preparation for and instructional practices with academic writing （conducted in 2014 and 2015）. Finally, it describes approaches that can be used in adult education programs to meet the writing proficiency needs of students at all levels and next steps that the adult education field might take.展开更多
This paper aims to make a brief review on automated writing evaluation(AWE) tools in English writing instruction both at home and abroad. In this paper, seven AWE tools are summarized, including Project Essay Grade(PE...This paper aims to make a brief review on automated writing evaluation(AWE) tools in English writing instruction both at home and abroad. In this paper, seven AWE tools are summarized, including Project Essay Grade(PEG), Intelligent Essay Assessor(IEA), the Electronic Essay Rater(E-rater) and Criterion, Intelli Metric and MY Access!, and Bayesian Essay Test Scoring System(BETSY), all of which are widely used abroad.While in China, i Write 2.0 and the Pigai system are used broadly.Through describing the developing process of AWE system, this paper tends to provide a general knowledge of AWE system.展开更多
This article reviews and reflects on Yang & Gao's research on beliefs and practices of Chinese university teachers in EFL writing instruction.After a summary of the major arguments, the author offers a detaile...This article reviews and reflects on Yang & Gao's research on beliefs and practices of Chinese university teachers in EFL writing instruction.After a summary of the major arguments, the author offers a detailed and balanced critique on Yang&Gao's research. In the end, the author comes to a conclusion based on her critique and proposes several implications it has on L2 writing instruction.展开更多
This study was designed to study the effects of the process-oriented approach on the EFL writing proficiency of Chinese non-English majors.In this study,two research designs were employed:the quantitative design and t...This study was designed to study the effects of the process-oriented approach on the EFL writing proficiency of Chinese non-English majors.In this study,two research designs were employed:the quantitative design and the qualitative design.In the quantitative design,two classes participated in an 8-week experiment.An interview was employed in the qualitative design to find out students' attitude towards process-oriented approach.The result of the study showed that students generally held positive attitudes towards this approach and it was more effective in improving students' EFL writing proficiency and could thus be adjusted to teach writing.展开更多
The study investigates writing proficiency in preservice English as a Foreign Language(EFL)teachers characterized by selected discourse features inherent in their writing performance.Eighty-one preservice EFL teachers...The study investigates writing proficiency in preservice English as a Foreign Language(EFL)teachers characterized by selected discourse features inherent in their writing performance.Eighty-one preservice EFL teachers from a key normal university in the Chinese mainland participated in the study.The discourse-analytic approach was adopted to provide evidence underlying teachers’writing performance.The results suggest that 11 out of 19 features selected are informative of preservice EFL teachers’writing performance in that they can successfully differentiate EFL teachers at various levels of proficiency.These findings have implications for the professional preparation and development of preservice EFL teachers and provide insight into the development of language assessment for this population.展开更多
This paper makes an overview of the studies on web-based formative assessment in college English writing teaching in China from 2000 to 2009 on the basis of relevant papers published in 10 important Chinese journals o...This paper makes an overview of the studies on web-based formative assessment in college English writing teaching in China from 2000 to 2009 on the basis of relevant papers published in 10 important Chinese journals of English language teaching. It analyzes the achievements and weaknesses of the research so far based on which to provide some implications for future development,展开更多
Peer review enjoys a solid theoretical foundation and has been widely used in L1 and L2 writing instructions, but remains rare in the EFL environment of China's Mainland. This study attempts to evaluate its use am...Peer review enjoys a solid theoretical foundation and has been widely used in L1 and L2 writing instructions, but remains rare in the EFL environment of China's Mainland. This study attempts to evaluate its use among Chinese students. It finds: (1) Conducting peer review to substitute for part of teacher feedback is as effective as relying completely on the teacher for feedback; (2) Most Chinese students like to get feedback from their peers and think it is useful to them; (3) Chinese students are already capable of effective peer revision, which can also stimulate self-revision.展开更多
文摘This study,drawing on the commonalities between generative artificial intelligence and foreign language writing instruction,outlines the core ideology of digital humanities-based college English writing instruction,including auxiliary use of generative artificial intelligence tools,primary focus on humanistic education,and the re-production of knowledge,aiming to foster students’critical thinking,collaborative skills,and creativity.Building on this foundation,the study delves into generative artificial intelligence tools applicable to different stages of process-genre writing and their strategic applications.The use of generative artificial intelligence tools is beneficial for students to present,discuss,and share writing content,encouraging them to enhance their writing,collaboration,critical thinking,and creative abilities through deep interaction with model essays and creative discourses.
文摘This paper is designed to explore whether the theory of text linguistics,especially the knowledge of cohesion,coherence and cohesive devices could be applied in college English writing teaching to help improve students’writing abilities.Besides,the author puts forward some suggestions for both English teachers and learners.
文摘The paper mainly focuses on peer feedback--one specific approach to teach writing. After analyzing the current practice in English writing instruction in Chinese tertiary institutions and reviewing YANG, Badger and YU＇s （2006） empirical research study, the author evaluates the suitability of peer feedback approach in a Chinese college context. Hopes that it may offer and challenges which might be faced, are discussed as well.
文摘Flipped classroom has become a topic of interest in education.The question of whether high school English writing instruction can be integrated with flipped classroom is of utmost concern.In consideration of the characteristics of both elements based on the constructivist theory,and the integration of language knowledge,background knowledge,as well as discourse knowledge into English writing instruction,this study designs a high school English writing instruction model based on flipped classroom.Both the flipped classroom and English writing instruction focus on constructing meaning in learning,thus providing a flipped classroom model for English writing instruction in high schools.
文摘The digital transformation of international Chinese language education is an important direction for enhancing the global dissemination effectiveness of the Chinese language.In teaching Chinese as a second language,writing,as a form of higher-order language output,has long faced challenges such as insufficient teacher resources,lagging feedback,and a lack of personalized support.Generative artificial intelligence(GAI)offers a new path for teaching Chinese writing.This study,with intermediate Chinese learners as the subjects,systematically explores the effectiveness of GAI-assisted Chinese writing instruction through a combination of controlled experiments and interviews based on a Chinese learning platform embedded with GAI.The study found that the GAI class was significantly superior to the traditional class in terms of the adequacy dimension of content quality and the grammatical and lexical dimensions of language quality;teachers and GAI play complementary roles in this process;most Chinese learners have a positive attitude towards this model.Based on the above findings,this study presents three suggestions:using GAI to empower Chinese writing instruction,giving full play to the complementary advantages of human and machine,and enhancing the AI literacy of teachers and students to achieve two-way empowerment of human and machine,with the aim of promoting the intelligent development of international Chinese education.
文摘In recent years student-centred peer response has become such a widely used teaching method in English writing instruction that numerous articles have been produced to discuss the advantages and strategies of this approach. But is this method effective in our teaching context? What do our students think of it? This study investigated perceptions of helpfulness of peer response among 22 advanced English major students. Data collected over one semester through observations, interviews and questionnaires revealed that participants have very negative reactions to peer response, which challenges some beliefs about the affective and pedagogical advantages of peer response. The author's findings further suggest that training students to do peer response is essential in English writing instruction.
文摘Peer response activities take place in different modes, and the different modes affect the roles participants play. These modes can be written, oral, or a combination of both. The purpose of this study is to see how teacher-response, peer-response, and a combination of both in oral mode can be effective in accomplishing the learning/teaching goals of both the students and the teachers in a collaborative Iranian setting to achieve this goal, the researcher chose 60 students as the eligible members of the sample participating in this study. The participants--15 males and 45 females--were all Iranian Persian native speakers aged between 22 and 25 majoring in English translation at university level. They were assigned to three homogeneous groups based on the obtained scores on Oxford Placement Test and a sample paragraph on a given topic, emphasizing the expository genre. They covered five topics in a sequence of ten written texts--before and after receiving feedback--over a 15-week semester. All the written tasks were collected and scored analytically to track any improvement and assay the effects of different feedback sources on students＇ writing performances. The results revealed that： First, oral feedback had a significant effect on students＇ revised drafts and students incorporated the comments provided by the teacher, peers, or both in the process of draft editing; Second, of the three feedback sources the students benefited from teacher＇s feedback more than peers＇ feedback; and finally, the collaborative oral feedback model had a significant effect on students＇ writing. In addition, this method provided a practical foreign-language-learning experience for the Iranian students to share their common linguistic goals and gave a new sense to collaborative learning tasks in EFL writing classes.
文摘For the past several decades, it has been clear that the ability to write texts for academic and professional purposes （＂academic writing＂ in this article） is key to the success of adults in U.S. society--in school, in university courses, on tests that they need to take to progress through learning and into work, and in the workforce. Academic writing has specific features and involves approaches that are different from much of the writing that is done with adult learners, particularly those learning English as an additional language （e.g., described in reviews by Hinkel, 2015; Leki, Cumming, ＆ Silva, 2008; and a survey by Rosenfeld, Courtney, ＆ Fowles, 2004）. However, a recent survey of adult educators, conducted by the authors, found that academic writing has not been a focus in many adult education programs, and teachers receive limited professional development in this area and instructional support in implementing it. This article describes the importance of academic writing at all levels of adult education, the key features of academic writing, and the current state of writing instruction in adult education programs. It then describes the motivation for, design, and outcomes of a survey of and interviews with adult educators across the country on their preparation for and instructional practices with academic writing （conducted in 2014 and 2015）. Finally, it describes approaches that can be used in adult education programs to meet the writing proficiency needs of students at all levels and next steps that the adult education field might take.
文摘This paper aims to make a brief review on automated writing evaluation(AWE) tools in English writing instruction both at home and abroad. In this paper, seven AWE tools are summarized, including Project Essay Grade(PEG), Intelligent Essay Assessor(IEA), the Electronic Essay Rater(E-rater) and Criterion, Intelli Metric and MY Access!, and Bayesian Essay Test Scoring System(BETSY), all of which are widely used abroad.While in China, i Write 2.0 and the Pigai system are used broadly.Through describing the developing process of AWE system, this paper tends to provide a general knowledge of AWE system.
文摘This article reviews and reflects on Yang & Gao's research on beliefs and practices of Chinese university teachers in EFL writing instruction.After a summary of the major arguments, the author offers a detailed and balanced critique on Yang&Gao's research. In the end, the author comes to a conclusion based on her critique and proposes several implications it has on L2 writing instruction.
文摘This study was designed to study the effects of the process-oriented approach on the EFL writing proficiency of Chinese non-English majors.In this study,two research designs were employed:the quantitative design and the qualitative design.In the quantitative design,two classes participated in an 8-week experiment.An interview was employed in the qualitative design to find out students' attitude towards process-oriented approach.The result of the study showed that students generally held positive attitudes towards this approach and it was more effective in improving students' EFL writing proficiency and could thus be adjusted to teach writing.
基金This research was supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities,and the Research Funds of Renmin University of China(project No.14XNF035).
文摘The study investigates writing proficiency in preservice English as a Foreign Language(EFL)teachers characterized by selected discourse features inherent in their writing performance.Eighty-one preservice EFL teachers from a key normal university in the Chinese mainland participated in the study.The discourse-analytic approach was adopted to provide evidence underlying teachers’writing performance.The results suggest that 11 out of 19 features selected are informative of preservice EFL teachers’writing performance in that they can successfully differentiate EFL teachers at various levels of proficiency.These findings have implications for the professional preparation and development of preservice EFL teachers and provide insight into the development of language assessment for this population.
基金funded by a key MoE project titled"Using Automated Writing Assessment in China EFL Classrooms"(Project number:GFA097005)
文摘This paper makes an overview of the studies on web-based formative assessment in college English writing teaching in China from 2000 to 2009 on the basis of relevant papers published in 10 important Chinese journals of English language teaching. It analyzes the achievements and weaknesses of the research so far based on which to provide some implications for future development,
文摘Peer review enjoys a solid theoretical foundation and has been widely used in L1 and L2 writing instructions, but remains rare in the EFL environment of China's Mainland. This study attempts to evaluate its use among Chinese students. It finds: (1) Conducting peer review to substitute for part of teacher feedback is as effective as relying completely on the teacher for feedback; (2) Most Chinese students like to get feedback from their peers and think it is useful to them; (3) Chinese students are already capable of effective peer revision, which can also stimulate self-revision.
基金the Social Science Research Fund of the Educational Department of Jiangsu Province(No.08SJB7400004)the Provincial Teaching-quality and Teaching-reform Project of Soochow University(All-round Development in the Intercultural Communicative Competence of College Students)
