Researchers and practitioners have been challenged by the complexity of the writing
process and its development for many years. Writing develops over time through interactions …

Writing is thought to be the most complex facet of language arts. Assessing writing is difficult
and subjective, and few scientifically validated assessments exist. Research has proposed …

While there is some evidence of a gap in English writing achievement between children with
English as an additional language (EAL) compared to their monolingual English-speaking …

Cognitive ability and spelling predictors of written expression were examined between
gender groups as well as across age and writing skill levels using quantile regression with …

Curriculum‐based measures have been validated for use in evaluating reading,
mathematics, and writing skills (Marston, 1989). Despite its common use by school …

Since complexity, accuracy and fluency (CAF) have been suggested as measures of
language development (Larsen-Freeman, 1978), a heated debate has surrounded the issue …

Research in the study of students' writing concludes that vocabulary use is a key variable in
determining the holistic quality of the writing. In the present study, 77 writing samples from a …

Background. Advances in automated analyses of written discourse have made available a
wide range of indices that can be used to better understand linguistic features present in …

Formulaic competence, the native-like use of ready-made sequences of words, is a key
aspect in the development of L2 writing proficiency. Becoming increasingly important in …