Assessment of Academic ESL Writing in an Online Tutorial for Graduate Students

• DOI: 10.34190/ecel.22.1.1827
• Publication Date: 2023-10-20T03:58:17Z
• Authors: Zhi Li; Veronika Makarova; Zhengxiang Wang
• Keywords: Rubric; Academic Writing; Graduate students

English-as-a-second language (L2) graduate students often face challenges in developing academic writing skills, which can be exacerbated by a lack of timely support at institutional level. To help address this concern, an original set online tutorials with focus on the genre Literature Review was designed authors to assist international enrolled programs Canada. This paper introduces and compares multiple assessment tools employed tutorial for English L2 students. Our project pursues two major goals: First, above-identified gap Academic Writing minimal costs faculty involvement through designing set; second, contribute research e-learning as second (ESL) terms integrated building, analysis texts produced learners, learners’ progress. The questions are: 1. What resources combined develop costs? 2. How progress ESL assessed different tools? describes construction: MoodleCloud platform, H5P interactive e-book authors, surveys, tools. Second, we present compare evaluate progress: Expert analytic rubric, self-assessments participants, automated text corpus-based reported Li, Makarova, Wang (2023). A comparison scores across three shows some discrepancies, seems suggest that yield more comprehensive picture. expert assessments demonstrate improvement quality over course series, are partially supported findings from participants’ texts. relevance scholars, faculty, administrators English-medium universities substantial intakes Social Sciences Education whose native languages other than English.