Exploring the relationships among student preferences, prewriting tasks, and text quality in an EAP context

Journal of English for Academic Purposes

Volumn 15, Issue , 2014, Pages 14-26

  Neumann, Heike ^a   McDonough, Kim ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Group work; Prewriting tasks; Second language interaction; Second language writing; Student preferences

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901987276     PISSN: 14751585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeap.2014.05.002     Document Type: Article

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