Contributing to the growing amount of literature on learning–enhancing feedback, this article
attempts to distinguish between progress feedback and discrepancy feedback. Building on …

Teachers' understandings of feedback probably influence the type and quality of feedback
that they provide. The beliefs of 518 New Zealand practicing teachers about feedback were …

This study explored the impact of explicit teaching of reading strategies on English-as-a-
foreign-language (EFL) students' reading performance in Iran. The study employed a …

The objective of this exploratory investigation was to examine the nature of writing
instruction in kindergarten classrooms and to describe student writing outcomes at the end …

Abstract Writing instruction in New Zealand occurs in a context with potential for variability in
curriculum and delivery. The national curriculum is broad; self governing schools are to …

This study analyses the practices of nine New Zealand teachers of upper primary and
middle-school students (N= 210) whose classes had consistently shown gains in writing far …

This paper reports on the teaching practices identified as effective for students' writing
progress in a digital learning environment. The study is situated within a design-based …

This book explores what writing for pleasure means, and how it can be realised as a much-
needed pedagogy whose aim is to develop children, young people, and their teachers as …

Schreibkompetenz verstehen und fördern Schreibkompetenz ist vielschichtig und umfasst
diverse Teilfähigkeiten. Dieser Band klärt, was Schreibkompetenz beinhaltet. Im ersten Teil …

Against a background where language learning/learner strategy (LLS) research was
criticized, we would like to bring to the fore a key concept, metacognition, which has not …