Ilona Leki’s research while affiliated with The University of Tennessee Medical Center at Knoxville and other places

... Some MSSs indicated that their teachers do not provide support during this process. The absence of writing in the teaching process, teachers' deficiencies, and the failure to design the teaching process by objectives contribute to the underdevelopment of writing skills (Genç Ersoy & Göl Dede, 2022;Leki, Cumming, & Silva, 2008). This situation reveals the importance of teachers" positive attitude towards writing and guiding their students in writing (Pajares, 2002). ...

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I AM NOT A FAN OF WRITING: EXPERIENCES OF MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS WITH NEGATIVE ATTITUDES TOWARDS WRITING

... Perhaps the most frequent criticism of critical approaches to TESOL is the general criticism levelled towards all critical pedagogy. That is, critical pedagogues are adept at pithy analysis and the formulation of catchy theories, but are notoriously quiet on the practical front (see, for instance Leki, 2003). Critical pedagogy offers no solutions. ...

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English Language Teaching in Brunei: A View Through a Critical Lens

... Compared with other types of language learning materials, literature provides authentic, and more importantly vivid, contexts for the use of L2 language. Through engaging themselves in the given context for a specific purpose (usually for pleasure and curiosity), bilingual students do L2 language practices unconsciously and gradually become more competent and fluent in reading second language materials [37][38][39]. ...

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The Influence of Literature on Chinese-English Biliteracy Development in Classroom Settings

... One of the linguistic skills that has seen an increase in demand in recent decades is writing for different purposes, such as the academic and the professional ones. The broad field of study that English writing represents (English as a second language, esl or English as a foreign language, efl) continues to expand both theoretically and pedagogically and this is evidenced through practical, pedagogical, methodological and theoretical studies carried out with-in this specialized field of study (Cumming, 1995;Carson and Leki, 1993;Ferris and Hedgcock, 2005;Grabe and Kaplan, 1996;Hyland, 2004;Kroll 1990;Leki, 1992;Matsuda and Silva, 2005;Silva andMatsuda, 2001a, 2001b;Zamel, 1998). This chapter presents part of the literary review that was carried out with the purpose of developing a qualitative research regarding writing. ...

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English Language Teacher Education Studies in Mexico:

... This claim is supported by Ur (1996), who states that teachers who use a process approach to teaching writing should assist students in composing and revising their drafts utilizing input from various sources rather than focusing on fixing their mistakes. As Leki (1994) points out, this may be accomplished by having other students comment on the teacher's evaluation. She notes that students are increasingly participating in reacting to writing, so the instructor is not the only one who responds to or assesses students' texts. ...

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First-year Students’ Perceptions about Feedback Provision and their Performances of Writing: A Study on Ethiopian Defense University

... This concept refers not to the group itself but to the ongoing social process of negotiating competence in a domain over time (Farnsworth et al., 2016). This model has been applied to diverse L2 learning contexts, such as university group projects (Leki, 2001), Grade 1 classroom practices (Toohey, 1998), academic writing for publication (Casanave, 1998;Flowerdew, 2000), graduate student-adviser relationships (Belcher, 1994), and immigrant women's language learning (Norton & Toohey, 2011). Therefore, a CoP can be seen as a social learning system where learning produces social structure (Wenger, 2010). ...

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Identity Formation in Educational Communities of Practice : The Role of Communication, Trust, and Conflict Mediation

... Research on L2 learners' attitudes has long confirmed that there is a correlation between attitudes and learning (e.g. Horwitz, 1999;Leki, 1995). That is, learners are more likely to succeed if they hold positive attitudes towards L2 learning. ...

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Omani University Students’ Attitudes Towards Collaborative Writing

... These criteria, which go beyond only reading or writing, are believed to realistically evaluate the critical interaction between reading and writing both conceptually and textually. These features show our considerations to align the scale construct with the demands of academic reading and writing requiring evaluation of source ideas, critically engaging with source information, and incorporating them into writing (Leki & Carson, 1997;Moore & Morton, 2005). By considering these nuances, the IW scale addresses deficiencies in the operationalisation of IW skills and provides detailed insights for an informed decision-making process. ...

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Designing a rating scale for an integrated reading-writing test: A needs-oriented approach

... Research on the language proficiency and competency of final year students in Malaysian universities shows that their writing reflects poor ideas, accuracy and presentation (Siti Hamin et al., 2005; Tg Nor Rizan et al., 2007). However, there is little research on students' writing in the transition period; whether from school or pre-university levels to university (Baker, 2011; Chan & Ain, 2004; Kramer-Dahl, 2004). Thus, this paper attempts to look into L2 students' cultures of writing in the transition period from pre-university to higher education. ...

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Writing Transition in Postsecondary Education: A Case Study

... For any student, another problem presented by timed writing tests is that they are given under artificial conditions: students must compose on an assigned topic, and they are most often not allowed to access any reference material such as dictionaries. Many students find it difficult to write "cold" on a topic they might never have seen before and perhaps care nothing about or, even worse, know nothing about (Huot, 1990a;Leki, 1991). Further, in the timed essay test there is no time for revision or any other process approaches (Wolcott & Legg, 1998). ...

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An assessment of ESL writing placement assessment