Our Dr Renia Lopez found that writing instruction following a teaching and learning cycle, or any other type of cycle, where feedback and a chance to integrate it is given to students, did help them improve their academic writing.
She noticed that more interactive co-deconstruction approach is more effective, and that pushing students to think about the writing instruction contents through simple exercises also enhances their awareness and confidence levels.
The research and its findings were reported in her contributed chapter "Improving Second Language Writing Across the Disciplines: Resources for Content Teachers" in the new book Teaching Language and Content in Multicultural and Multilingual Classrooms: CLIL and EMI Approaches (pp. 191-122), published by Palgrave Macmillan and also available at Springer.
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