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Theoretical perspectives and factors influencing machine translation use in L2 writing: A scoping review J. Seccond Lang. Writ. (IF 5.448) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Lianjing Jiang, Rong Yu, Yi Zhao
Despite the increasing popularity of machine translation in second language (L2) writing, the theoretical perspectives and complex factors shaping its use remain under synthesized. This article reviews research on machine translation use in L2 writing to identify major models and factors that shape teachers’ and students’ employment of machine translation. Theoretical perspectives underpinning machine
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Cyclical interplay between L2 writing, WCF processing and rewriting: Explaining modification and consolidation in L2 development J. Seccond Lang. Writ. (IF 5.448) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Ali Rastgou
Although different empirical studies have recently explored the L2 writing–SLA interfaces, how L2 writers modify and consolidate their linguistic knowledge with different levels of perceived complexity remains underexplored. Featuring the qualitative phase of a longitudinal, mixed-methods study with the aim of complementarity, the current study explored the perspectives of 20 low- to mid-intermediate
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Expanding the collaborative writing research framework: A longitudinal analysis of how collaborative and independent writers orient to writing spaces J. Seccond Lang. Writ. (IF 5.448) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Gary G. Fogal
Recent reviews of the L2 collaborative writing (CW) literature have highlighted a propensity for researchers to rely on learner and task-related variables to explore CW phenomena. However, this focus limits how scholars conceptualize CW by overlooking the wider educational context that accompanies CW activities and how writers orient to said spaces. Investigating how writers perceive the CW landscape
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March 2024 JSLW Annotated Bibliography J. Seccond Lang. Writ. (IF 5.448) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Carol Severino, Lia Plakans, Xinyue Shui
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A measure of EFL argumentative writing cognitive load: Scale development and validation J. Seccond Lang. Writ. (IF 5.448) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Jiu Li, Jianhua Wang
Writing requires substantial cognitive processing; when writing, cognitive load emerges due to the limited working memory. Research has investigated cognitive load as an explanatory concept in L2 writing, although there are a few instruments for measuring. Accordingly, the present study aims to develop and validate the EFL Argumentative Writing Cognitive Load Scale. Initially, stimulated recall from
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Writing teacher feedback literacy: Surveying second language teachers’ knowledge, values, and abilities J. Seccond Lang. Writ. (IF 5.448) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Icy Lee, Zhicheng Mao
Despite a significant rise in awareness of the critical role of assessment literacy, teacher feedback literacy as an important component of assessment literacy has received scant attention in the domain of second language (L2) writing. By drawing on questionnaire data gathered from 353 English as a foreign language teachers and follow-up interviews with 34 focal teachers, this study attempts to ascertain
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Think-aloud protocols in second language writing: A mixed-methods study of their reactivity and veridicality, Chengsong Yang, Lawrence Jun Zhang, Springer Nature, Cham, Switzerland (2023), p. 217, pp J. Seccond Lang. Writ. (IF 5.448) Pub Date : 2023-12-30 Chili Li, Zixian Ye, Xuemei Jiang
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"Ethnographies of Academic Writing Research: Theory, Methods, and Interpretation. Ignacio Guillén-Galve, Ana Bocanegra-Valle (Ed.), John Benjamins, Amsterdam/Philadelphia (2021), xi + 162 pp." J. Seccond Lang. Writ. (IF 5.448) Pub Date : 2023-12-16 Hanako Okada
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Essential Knowledge and Skills for Essay Writing: A Practical Guide for ESL and EFL Undergraduates, Neil E.J.A. Bowen (Ed.), Equinox Publishing Ltd., Sheffield, UK (2023), p. 322, Hardback: US $99.88. Paperback: US $39.95 J. Seccond Lang. Writ. (IF 5.448) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Robert MacIntyre
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Translanguaging pedagogy in EAP writing: A multilingual Qazaq instructor’s perspective J. Seccond Lang. Writ. (IF 5.448) Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Serikbolsyn Tastanbek
English for Academic Purposes (EAP) instructors may struggle to capitalize on students’ multilingual practices in teaching and demystifying academic writing, considering the expectation to use standard English. My teaching report is situated in Qazaqstan, where I worked as an EAP instructor with first-year undergraduate students for whom Qazaq and Russian are the dominant languages, English is a foreign
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Selected bibliography of recent scholarship in second language writing J. Seccond Lang. Writ. (IF 5.448) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Carolina Pelaez-Morales, Colleen Brice
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Editorial J. Seccond Lang. Writ. (IF 5.448) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Rosemary Wette, YouJin Kim
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Clarity and Coherence in Academic Writing: Using Language as a Resource, David Nunan, Julie Choi, Routledge, New York, NY (2023), p. 224, Hardback: £96.00, $142.45; Paperback: £21.59, $30.65; E-book: £21.59, $33.20 J. Seccond Lang. Writ. (IF 5.448) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Yali Shi
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Introduction to the special issue: Innovation in L2 writing task design J. Seccond Lang. Writ. (IF 5.448) Pub Date : 2023-11-26 Lisa McGrath, Raffaella Negretti
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Navigating complexity in plain English: A longitudinal analysis of syntactic and lexical complexity development in L2 legal writing J. Seccond Lang. Writ. (IF 5.448) Pub Date : 2023-11-18 Yiran Xu, J. Elliott Casal
Since the 1960s, legal writing pedagogy in the United States has been heavily influenced by the plain English movement, which largely discourages the use of legal jargon and overly complex syntactic structures in legal documents. While these efforts to democratize legal English are laudable, it is unclear whether plain English practices can accommodate the needs of multilingual, foreign legal writers
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Noticing and metalinguistic awareness in the L2 writing process: A translation-based writing task for L1 Arabic speakers preparing to teach Hebrew as a second language J. Seccond Lang. Writ. (IF 5.448) Pub Date : 2023-11-17 Julia Schlam Salman, Irit Haskel-Shaham
This study explores aspects of noticing and metalinguistic awareness in L2 writing via a translation-based writing task that involved L2 output followed by translation to the L1 and then reverse translation back to the L2. We designed an innovative writing task that included translation, informal contrastive analysis, and learners’ evolving interlanguage. We administered the task to 37, L1 Arabic speakers
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The affordances and contradictions of AI-generated text for writers of english as a second or foreign language J. Seccond Lang. Writ. (IF 5.448) Pub Date : 2023-11-11 Mark Warschauer, Waverly Tseng, Soobin Yim, Thomas Webster, Sharin Jacob, Qian Du, Tamara Tate
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Generative AI: Same same but different? J. Seccond Lang. Writ. (IF 5.448) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Diane Pecorari
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AI technologies in the ESL/EFL writing classroom: The villain or the champion? J. Seccond Lang. Writ. (IF 5.448) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Pimyupa W. Praphan, Kittiphong Praphan
The impact of AI technologies, particularly ChatGPT, on the ESL/EFL writing classroom is unprecedented. In response to the focus paper by Warschauer and colleagues regarding this issue, this paper shares some insights from the experiences teaching English writing at the post-secondary level in Thailand. Due to the lack of institutional policies on the use of AI technologies, we need to devise our own
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Generative artificial intelligence and second language writing J. Seccond Lang. Writ. (IF 5.448) Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Tanita Saenkhum, Soo Hyon Kim
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Another contradiction in AI-assisted second language writing J. Seccond Lang. Writ. (IF 5.448) Pub Date : 2023-11-05 Ryuko Kubota
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AI tools as affordances and contradictions for EFL writers: Emic perspectives and L1 use as a resource J. Seccond Lang. Writ. (IF 5.448) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Miyuki Sasaki
This article responds to Warschauer et al. (this issue), which discusses the affordances and challenges generative AI tools offer the L2 writing field. Although the contradictions posited by Warschauer et al. resonate deeply, they seem somewhat lacking. Of these, two are conspicuous and related to the L2 writers themselves: (1) the emic (insider) perspective, and (2) an exploration of the writer's
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Beyond ChatGPT: Multimodal generative AI for L2 writers J. Seccond Lang. Writ. (IF 5.448) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Joohoon Kang, Youngjoo Yi
In response to Warschauer et al.’s paper on the affordances and contradictions of AI-generated text, we as researchers in multimodal literacy focus on discussing the two affordances of multimodal generative AI models for L2 writers, such as (1) exploring and fostering multimodal literacy and (2) developing fine-tuned prompt literacy.
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Source-based writing of the high- and low-proficiency adolescent writer in the high-school L2 classroom J. Seccond Lang. Writ. (IF 5.448) Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Gillian Baxter, Heike Neumann
Writing from sources is a fundamental academic skill that poses a challenge for students at all educational levels. However, few studies have investigated source use in the high-school context. The current study examines the source-based writing of 43 adolescent writers in a high-school second-language (L2) classroom. Students were classified into high- (N = 25) and low-proficiency (N = 18) levels
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Exploring the effects of target-language extramural activities on students’ written production J. Seccond Lang. Writ. (IF 5.448) Pub Date : 2023-10-17 Henrik Kaatari, Tove Larsson, Ying Wang, Seda Acikara-Eickhoff, Pia Sundqvist
Frequent engagement in English extramural activities (i.e., activities that take place outside the classroom) has been found to have a positive impact on EFL learners’ vocabulary knowledge and reading comprehension. In the present study, we aim to extend our knowledge of the possible impact of extramural activities into the realm of second-language writing. Specifically, we investigate the relationship
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The Diagnosis of Writing in a Second or Foreign Language, Ari Huhta, Claudia Harsch, Dmitri Leontjev, Lea Nieminen, Routledge (2024), Xii+334 pp. Hardback: US$170; E-Book: US$48.95 J. Seccond Lang. Writ. (IF 5.448) Pub Date : 2023-10-14 Xin Li
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Feedback in L2 English Writing in the Arab World: Inside the Black Box, Abdelhamid M. Ahmed, Salah Troudi, & Susan Riley (Eds.). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switzerland (2020). Hardback $109.93. Paperback $109.99. e-book $84.99. Kindle $25.61-$99. 251 pages. J. Seccond Lang. Writ. (IF 5.448) Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Hadi Banat
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Crossing borders, writing texts, being evaluated: Cultural and disciplinary norms in academic writing, Anne Golden, Lars Anders Kulbrandstad, Lawrence Jun Zhang (Eds.), Multilingual Matters, the UK, Bristol (2021), p. 184, E-Book, $39.95; Hardback, $139.95; Paperback,$48.66 J. Seccond Lang. Writ. (IF 5.448) Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Javad Zare, Ali Derakhshan
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Teaching Writing in English as a Foreign Language: Teachers’ Cognition Formation and Reformation, Huan Zhao, Lawrence Jun Zhang (Eds.), Springer (2023), 200 pp. Hardcover: $129.99; E-Book: $92.61 J. Seccond Lang. Writ. (IF 5.448) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Xiaolong Cheng, Yan Liu
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Developing Multilingual Writing: Agency, Audience, Identity, Hiroe Kobayashi, Carol Rinnert. (Eds.), Springer Nature, Cham, Switzerland (2023), p. 365, E-book: €106.99, $109.00; Hardcover book: €129.99, $139.99 J. Seccond Lang. Writ. (IF 5.448) Pub Date : 2023-09-19 Haiquan Huang, Rong Luo, Lina Qian
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Discoursal scholarly identity in research writing J. Seccond Lang. Writ. (IF 5.448) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Qi Qi, Cecilia Guanfang Zhao
The construction of a discoursal scholarly identity is central to research writing (Hyland, 2013). However, the definition of such an identity is still elusive in current scholarship, and the discussion regarding its construction sporadic. We reviewed relevant research published in English-medium academic journals within the recent two decades (2003–2022) in an attempt to demystify the concept of discoursal
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Developing Writing Competence in L2 Chinese Classrooms: Research and Application, Li Yang & Laura Valentín-Rivera (Eds.). Multilingual Matters (2023). 192 pp. Hardback: US$129.95, £89.95, €109.95; Ebook: US$25, £15, €20. J. Seccond Lang. Writ. (IF 5.448) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Yanning Dong
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Editorial J. Seccond Lang. Writ. (IF 5.448) Pub Date : 2023-09-02 Rosemary Wette, YouJin Kim
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Selected bibliography of recent scholarship in second language writing J. Seccond Lang. Writ. (IF 5.448) Pub Date : 2023-09-02 Colleen Brice, Carolina Pelaez-Morales
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Mapping metacognitive genre awareness with L1 and L2 writers: Investigating novices’ engagement with an occluded genre J. Seccond Lang. Writ. (IF 5.448) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Matt Kessler, Lauren Tuckley
This study examines L1 and L2 English-speaking undergraduates’ engagement with an occluded, promotional genre – the personal statement (PS). Using a case study design, the researchers explored the experiences of three novice writers with no prior exposure to PSs, as the students applied to a university-sponsored grants competition that required them to produce the genre. Drawing upon metacognition
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The value of models to support students' voice in middle school social studies argument writing J. Seccond Lang. Writ. (IF 5.448) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Mary J. Schleppegrell, Sida Sun, Chauncey Monte-Sano
Teachers are often advised to use model texts, sentence starters, and paragraph frames to support student writers, but little empirical research reports on how K-12 students take up language from such models. We use a systemic functional linguistics fine-grained approach to analyze 19 middle school students’ writing in social studies as they engaged in inquiry with sources across two years, reporting
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Additive extensive reading and syntactic development in second language writing: Analyses of syntactic complexity and sophistication in young EFL learners’ book reports J. Seccond Lang. Writ. (IF 5.448) Pub Date : 2023-08-06 Hyunwoo Kim, Eunseok Ro
This study explores how input-driven activity through extensive reading leads to syntactic growth in young students’ written production. Twenty-six young students learning English as a foreign language participated in extensive reading as an additional activity after school for a month (ER group), and their syntactic development was inspected by analyzing 14 syntactic complexity and six syntactic sophistication
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Exploring writing processes in authentic writing tasks: A multimodal mixed-method approach J. Seccond Lang. Writ. (IF 5.448) Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Anna Sala-Bubaré, Montserrat Castelló
Writing is a critical skill in many academic and professional contexts, and multilingual writers often struggle to learn and master it. Understanding the processes and products involved in writing in these contexts is crucial to design better interventions and resources to help writers succeed in their writing endeavors. Yet, writing studies exploring the writing processes in authentic communicative
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The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Writing, Rosa Manchón, Charlene Polio (Eds.), Taylor & Francis (2021), Hardcover $243 ebook $51.24 J. Seccond Lang. Writ. (IF 5.448) Pub Date : 2023-07-17
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Teaching Academic Writing: Practical Techniques in Vocabulary and Grammar, Second Edition, Eli Hinkel Routledge (2020), p. 484, Hardback: US $150.00. Paperback: US $54.95. Ebook: US $49.45 J. Seccond Lang. Writ. (IF 5.448) Pub Date : 2023-07-10
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Critical language awareness in L2 writing: Starting por la autorreflexión, 自我反省 J. Seccond Lang. Writ. (IF 5.448) Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Martha Sidury Christiansen, Zhongfeng Tian 田中锋
Adopting a critical collaborative autoethnographic narrative lens, we, two transnational multilingual scholars, examine our own journeys as L2 writers from learning English to learning how to teach and publish as academics that disseminate most of our scholarship in English. We critically reflect upon our respective educational journeys and professional experiences in and with academic English writing
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Editorial J. Seccond Lang. Writ. (IF 5.448) Pub Date : 2023-06-10 Rosemary Wette, Todd Ruecker
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Task evolution in English for Academic Purposes writing materials: The case of “Information Transfer” to “Critical Commentary” J. Seccond Lang. Writ. (IF 5.448) Pub Date : 2023-06-10 John M. Swales, Christine B. Feak
This paper explores task evolution in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) writing materials, taking, as an illustrative case, written commentaries on non-verbal material such as that found in tables or graphs. The choice of this family of tasks is motivated by the fact that they have regularly occurred in EAP and English for Science and Technology (EST) textbooks from their outset in the 1970s and
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Tunnel, teapot, mermaid, ghost: Creative-critical practice as critical language awareness J. Seccond Lang. Writ. (IF 5.448) Pub Date : 2023-06-03 Allison Yasukawa, Adam Farcus
What if a writing class is expressed as a shape? What if English is reimagined as an entity? Presenting case studies from two tertiary-level L2 English for Academic Purposes classes in the United States, this article explores intersections between creative-critical practice and critical language awareness (CLA). The multimodal and interdisciplinary approaches included here demonstrate how concepts
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Selected bibliography of recent scholarship in second language writing J. Seccond Lang. Writ. (IF 5.448) Pub Date : 2023-06-02 Lia Plakans, Carol Severino, , Kwangmin Lee
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Brain-bound vs. extended: Contrasting approaches to second-language research writing in digital environments J. Seccond Lang. Writ. (IF 5.448) Pub Date : 2023-05-30 Matthew Overstreet, Diana Akhmedjanova, Silvia Vaccino-Salvadore
This article responds to calls to better understand the digital literacy practices of second and foreign-language writers. Researchers followed two Arab undergraduates as they completed a research writing task in a first-year writing course, tracing how these students used common digital resources, particularly digital 1) research tools, 2) writing tools and 3) course materials. Via screen-capture
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A dynamic usage-based analysis of L2 written complexity development of sojourners J. Seccond Lang. Writ. (IF 5.448) Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Zeynep Köylü, Nurullah Eryılmaz, Carmen Pérez-Vidal
Studies exploring complexity, accuracy, and fluency (CAF) development from a complex dynamic or dynamic usage-based (DUB) systems view are well documented in the literature (Verspoor et al., 2021). However, the analyses in these studies are mostly limited to elementary to intermediate level L2 learners from instructed secondary school settings. The current study thus investigates the relationship between
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Assessing syntactic and lexicogrammatical use in second language Mandarin writing samples J. Seccond Lang. Writ. (IF 5.448) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Susanne DeVore, Kristopher Kyle
General indices of syntactic complexity (e.g. mean length of T-unit, clauses per T-Unit) have long been used to measure the writing proficiency of adult language learners (Bulté & Housen, 2012; Norris & Ortega, 2006; Ortega, 2003; Wolfe-Quintero et al., 1998). In contrast, a number of recent studies have focused on measuring adult second language writing proficiency using methods rooted in usage-based
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Introduction to the special issue: Critical Language Awareness (CLA) as a lens for looking backward, outward, and forward in Second Language Writing J. Seccond Lang. Writ. (IF 5.448) Pub Date : 2023-05-13 Shawna Shapiro, Rebecca Lorimer Leonard
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Developing L2 writing abilities through an instructional enrichment program informed by dynamic assessment J. Seccond Lang. Writ. (IF 5.448) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Lu Yu, Matthew E. Poehner
Adopting the framework of Dynamic Assessment (DA), this study investigates the effectiveness of a DA-informed writing enrichment program in promoting L2 English learners’ academic writing development. Thirteen ESL students recruited from a U.S. university were randomly assigned to a DA-informed enrichment program group (n = 6) or a standard writing instruction group (n = 7). Prior to and following
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L2 writing anxiety, working memory, and task complexity in L2 written performance J. Seccond Lang. Writ. (IF 5.448) Pub Date : 2023-05-05 Emre Güvendir, Kutay Uzun
Building on the Attentional Control Theory proposed by Eysenck et al. (2007), this study aims to investigate the potential effect of L2 writing anxiety on the syntactic complexity of English learners' written texts by accounting for working memory as a potential mediator, while also examining the impact of L2 writing anxiety on learner texts’ syntactic complexity under high and low cognitive demands
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Writing as Meaning‐Making: A Systemic Functional Linguistic Approach to EFL Writing, Winfred Wenhui Xuan, Springer (2022), p. 338, pp. Hardback J. Seccond Lang. Writ. (IF 5.448) Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Yanli Jia, Xinhua Yuan
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Developing and evaluating an empirically-based diagnostic checklist for assessing second language integrated writing J. Seccond Lang. Writ. (IF 5.448) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Faeze Safari, Alireza Ahmadi
Writing in academic contexts typically includes integrated or source-based writing tasks. Given the significance of identifying students’ strengths and weaknesses and providing them with fine-grained feedback, this study aimed at developing and validating an empirically-based, binary-choice diagnostic checklist for L2 reading-listening-writing (RLW) integrated tasks. First, with reference to L2 students’
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Using Digital Portfolios to Develop Students’ Writing: A Practical Guide for Language Teachers, Ricky Lam, Benjamin Luke Moorhouse, Routledge (2022), p. 166, Hardcover $59.95. E-Book $24.95 J. Seccond Lang. Writ. (IF 5.448) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Emily Di Zhang, Shulin Yu
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Q. Guo, R. Feng, Y. Hua, Automated Written Corrective Feedback in Research Paper Revision: The Good, The Bad, and The Missing, Routledge (2023), p. 144, Hardback: $128.00; eBook: $42.36 J. Seccond Lang. Writ. (IF 5.448) Pub Date : 2023-04-22 Yun Lin, Yishi Jiang
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Genre Explained: Frequently Asked Questions and Answers about Genre‐Based Instruction, C.M. Tardy, A.M. Johns, N.A. Caplan., University of Michigan Press (2023), (136 pp. Paperback $24.95 eBook $19.95 J. Seccond Lang. Writ. (IF 5.448) Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Angela Hakim
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Grant writing for medical and healthcare professionals, Subhash Chandra Parija, Vikram Kate, Springer Nature, Singapore (2023) J. Seccond Lang. Writ. (IF 5.448) Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Chili Li, Long Qian
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The Inner World of Gatekeeping in Scholarly Publication, Pejman Habibie, Anna Kristina Hultgren (Eds.). Palgrave Macmillan (2022). XVII, 267 pages. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06519-4. Hardcover: $ 159.99; Softcover: $ 39.99; e-Book: $ 109.99. J. Seccond Lang. Writ. (IF 5.448) Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Andy Jiahao Liu
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Written “corrective” feedback in Spanish as a heritage language: Problematizing the construct of error J. Seccond Lang. Writ. (IF 5.448) Pub Date : 2023-04-15 Jorge Mendez Seijas, LeAnne Spino
The number of Latinx students enrolling in Spanish language courses in the United States has been steadily increasing in the last decades. Many of these students, referred to as heritage language (HL) learners, use linguistic forms and practices that are often stigmatized in academic communities for purportedly being “incorrect” or “inappropriate.” The current investigation explores whether a group