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Writing Groups: Cross-Cultural Issues.
Joan G. Carson,Gayle L. Nelson +1 more
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This article found that writing groups may be problematic for ESL students from collectivist cultures (e.g., Japan, the People's Republic of China) in at least three ways: writing groups, as used in many English as a Second Language (ESL) composition classrooms, would be familiar to ESL students, where group work is common in school both as a means of knowledge acquisition and as a vehicle for reinforcing the group ethic.About:
This article is published in Journal of Second Language Writing.The article was published on 1994-01-01. It has received 159 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Outgroup & Ingroups and outgroups.read more
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Feedback on second language students' writing
Ken Hyland,Fiona Hyland +1 more
TL;DR: The authors examine the role of feedback in writing instruction and discuss current issues relating to teacher written and oral feedback, collaborative peer feedback and computer-mediated feedback, and discuss the current issues related to teacher and student feedback.
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To give is better than to receive: The benefits of peer review to the reviewer's own writing
Kristi Lundstrom,Wendy Baker +1 more
TL;DR: An analysis in the gains in writing ability measured from writing samples collected at the beginning and end of the semester indicated that the givers, who focused solely on reviewing peers’ writing, made more significant gains in their own writing over the course of the season than did the receivers, whofocused solely on how to use peer feedback.
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A comparative study of peer and teacher feedback in a Chinese EFL writing class
Miao Yang,Richard Badger,Zhen Yu +2 more
TL;DR: This paper examined two groups of students at a Chinese University writing essays on the same topic, one receiving feedback from the teacher and one from their peers, and found that students used teacher and peer feedback to improve their writing but that teacher feedback was more likely to be adopted and led to greater improvements in the writing.
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Activating the ZPD: Mutual Scaffolding in L2 Peer Revision
TL;DR: In this article, a microgenetic approach was adopted to analyze the interaction produced by two intermediate ESL college students (a reader and a writer) as they worked collaboratively in revising a narrative text written by one of them.
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Peer Revision in the L2 Classroom: Social-Cognitive Activities, Mediating Strategies, and Aspects of Social Behavior.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the kind of revision activities students engage in while working in pairs, the strategies peers employ in order to facilitate the revision process, and significant aspects of social behavior in dyadic peer revision.
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Culture′s Consequences: International Differences in Work-Related Values
TL;DR: In his book Culture's Consequences, Geert Hofstede proposed four dimensions on which the differences among national cultures can be understood: Individualism, Power Distance, Uncertainty Avoidance and Masculinity as mentioned in this paper.
The structure of scientific revolutions
TL;DR: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions as mentioned in this paper is a seminal work in the history of science and philosophy of science, and it has been widely cited as a major source of inspiration for the present generation of scientists.
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The Self and Social Behavior in Differing Cultural Contexts
TL;DR: In this article, three dimensions of cultural variation (collectivism, tightness-looseness, cultural complexity) are discussed in relation to the sampling of these three aspects of the self.
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