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  • Writing Studies
  • Educational Technology

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  • Automated Writing Evaluation (AWE) provides immediate feedback for second language (L2) writing improvement.
  • Limited understanding exists regarding L2 learners' writing processes, specifically the role of pauses in predicting writing quality.
  • Investigating writing pauses can offer insights into cognitive processes during L2 essay production.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine the relationship between pause frequency and duration during essay writing and the quality of the final written product.
  • To analyze pause patterns across different text genres (descriptive and argumentative) in L2 writing.
  • To determine if pause behavior predicts writing quality in L2 postgraduate students.

Main Methods:

  • A case study involving 8 postgraduate students writing descriptive and argumentative essays.
  • Keystroke logging (Input Log 7.0) was used to record writing pauses.
  • Screen activity capture (Active Presenter) complemented the pause data collection.

Main Results:

  • Students exhibited significantly more pauses at word boundaries compared to sentence/paragraph boundaries.
  • Pauses preceding words were more frequent than those following words, across both text genres.
  • Significantly more pauses occurred during argumentative essay writing than descriptive essay writing.

Conclusions:

  • A negative correlation exists between extensive pausing and poorer quality in descriptive essays, suggesting more cognitive effort or revision.
  • No significant correlation between pausing and writing quality was found for argumentative essays.
  • Pause patterns differ across text genres, highlighting the importance of genre in L2 writing process research.