Using a Bilingual Concordancer for Text Revisions in EFL Writing

Autor/inn/en	Yang, Yu-Fen; Harn, Ruey-Fen; Hwang, Gwo-Haur
Titel	Using a Bilingual Concordancer for Text Revisions in EFL Writing
Quelle	In: Educational Technology & Society, 22 (2019) 1, S.106-119 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1436-4522
Schlagwörter	Bilingualism; Indexes; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Control Groups; Experimental Groups; Teaching Methods; Transfer of Training; College Students; Writing Improvement; Writing Instruction; Chinese; Dictionaries; Electronic Publishing; Metalinguistics; Pretests Posttests; Instructional Effectiveness; Foreign Countries; Revision (Written Composition); Taiwan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bilingualismus; Indexdatei; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Training; Transfer; Ausbildung; Collegestudent; Schreibunterricht; China; Chinesen; Dictionary; Wörterbuch; Elektronisches Publizieren; Metalanguage; Metasprache; Unterrichtserfolg; Ausland; Korrektur
Abstract	Many students who study English as a foreign language (EFL) have difficulty transferring linguistic features between languages while writing. This study aims to investigate how college students improve their EFL writing with text revisions by using a bilingual concordancer (Chinese and English). A sample of 32 college students consented to participate in a writing program. According to pre-test scores, they were grouped into an experimental (N = 15) group, which used the bilingual concordancer, and a control (N = 17) group, which used Yahoo's Chinese-English online dictionary. The results of the study indicate that the experimental group made greater improvement in text revision than those in the control group, as they raised metalinguistic awareness to evaluate word choice and sentence construction, by viewing authentic language examples retrieved from the bilingual concordancer. The bilingual concordancer also provided the experimental group with rich linguistic contexts to compare the differences between two languages and induce the rules of the target language (English), which lead to a reduction in errors due to the interference of the native language in EFL writing. In contrast, the control group relied mostly on limited sample sentences listed in the online dictionary, and lacking contexts resulted in little writing improvement. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01