An Analysis of Writer's Performance, Resources, and Idea Generation Processes: The Case of Filipino Engineering Students

Autor/in	Gustilo, Leah E.
Titel	An Analysis of Writer's Performance, Resources, and Idea Generation Processes: The Case of Filipino Engineering Students
Quelle	In: Language Testing in Asia, 3 (2013), Artikel 2 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2229-0443
DOI	10.1186/2229-0443-3-2
Schlagwörter	Pilot Projects; Engineering Education; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; College Freshmen; Familiarity; Scoring; Essays; Writing (Composition); Correlation; Student Attitudes; Language Tests; Task Analysis; Spelling; Foreign Countries; Writing Processes; Writing Skills; Philippines + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Pilot project; Modellversuch; Pilotprojekt; Ingenieurausbildung; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Studienanfänger; Bewertung; Essay; Aufsatzunterricht; Schreibübung; Korrelation; Schülerverhalten; Language test; Sprachtest; Aufgabenanalyse; Schreibweise; Ausland; Writing skill; Schreibfertigkeit; Philippinen
Abstract	The purpose of the pilot study, which is a part of a larger project on ESL writing involving freshmen college students in the Philippines, is to explore the relationship between writer's performance, writer's resources, and writer's idea generation process. To measure the writer's performance, diagnostic essays of 85 Filipino freshmen engineering students were evaluated based on Gustilo's (2011) modified holistic scoring guide. To measure writer's resources, tests on linguistic knowledge and topic familiarity and a survey questionnaire on writing background were administered to the same students. To measure writer's idea generation process while composing, a Likert Scale questionnaire based on Chenoweth and Hayes 2001 and 2003 models was designed and administered to the students after their diagnostic essay task. Pearson product moment correlation was used to test for significant relationships. Discourse completion task (DCT) was administered to confirm the results gathered through quantitative method. Findings partly confirm the findings of previous studies. Writer's performance is correlated with all the variables under study except for spelling test. (As Provided).
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