The Effects of Different Schema on Korean EFL Learners' L2 Writing
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This study investigated the factors which influenced the overall writing development of Korean EFL learners and the extent to which the variables predict differences in overall essay quality. To this end, essays produced by 34 Korean EFL learners at the high-intermediate level were analyzed using ESL Composition Profile and lexical measures. This study replicated a basic design used in Astika's (1993) study that investigates the assessment of ESL students' writing by native teachers, and Lee and Kim’s (2007) study that examines the factors that affect Korean college students' English writing skills. The data analysis has shown that for lexical measures word count per sentence and AWL were the factors that distinguished different levels of writing. However, the magnitude of the correlation between these variables and overall quality of writing varied to a great extent across four rhetorical types. In terms of the five composition components of the ESL Composition Profile, the results of the regression analyses revealed that Organization, Content, and Grammar were the best predictors of the variance of the participants' writing proficiency scores. The other two variables of Mechanics and Vocabulary use made considerably smaller contributions to the variance. The results are discussed in terms of appropriate instructional strategies for teaching EFL writing.
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This study investigated the factors which influenced the overall writing development of Korean EFL learners and the extent to which the variables predict differences in overall essay quality. To this end, essays produced by 34 Korean EFL learners at the high-intermediate level were analyzed using ESL Composition Profile and lexical measures. This study replicated a basic design used in Astika's (1993) study that investigates the assessment of ESL students' writing by native teachers, and Lee and Kim’s (2007) study that examines the factors that affect Korean college students' English writing skills. The data analysis has shown that for lexical measures word count per sentence and AWL were the factors that distinguished different levels of writing. However, the magnitude of the correlation between these variables and overall quality of writing varied to a great extent across four rhetorical types. In terms of the five composition components of the ESL Composition Profile, the results of the regression analyses revealed that Organization, Content, and Grammar were the best predictors of the variance of the participants' writing proficiency scores. The other two variables of Mechanics and Vocabulary use made considerably smaller contributions to the variance. The results are discussed in terms of appropriate instructional strategies for teaching EFL writing.
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