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The effects of incorporating mindset intervention in L2 English writing on Chinese college EFL students’ learning engagement and writing performance

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Journal of Second Language Writing Pub Date : 2025-03-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.jslw.2025.101193

Jun Rong , Yaochen Deng , Dilin Liu

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Journal of Second Language Writing Pub Date : 2025-03-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.jslw.2025.101192

Angela Hakim , Danilo Calle, Nergis Danis, Widya Kusumaningrum, Febriana Lestari, Hwee Jean Lim, Inyoung Na, Duong Nguyen

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Influence of a perspective oriented task, executive function, and trait perspective taking on EFL Writing

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Journal of Second Language Writing Pub Date : 2025-03-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.jslw.2025.101191

Turgut Coşkun , Nur Yigitoglu Aptoula

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Journal of Second Language Writing Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jslw.2025.101189

Xuehua Fu , Lawrence Jun Zhang

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March 2025 JSLW Annotated Bibliography

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Journal of Second Language Writing Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jslw.2025.101188

Carol Severino, Lia Plakans, Wenqi Zheng, Xinyue Shui

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Using AI-text generated mentor texts for genre-based pedagogy in second language writing

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Journal of Second Language Writing Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jslw.2025.101184

Luciana C. de Oliveira , Allessandra Elisabeth dos Santos

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JSLW editorial for March 2025

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Journal of Second Language Writing Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jslw.2025.101190

YouJin Kim, Stephen Doolan

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Collaborative writing based on generative AI models: Revision and deliberation processes in German as a foreign language

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Journal of Second Language Writing Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jslw.2025.101185

Marije Michel , Iryna Bazhutkina , Niklas Abel , Carola Strobl

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Exploring complexity at the lexis-grammar interface: Diversity and sophistication of verb-argument structures in L2 Dutch writing

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Journal of Second Language Writing Pub Date : 2025-02-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.jslw.2025.101183

Rachel Rubin , Bram Bulté , Magali Paquot , Alex Housen

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Investigating L2 writers' critical AI literacy in AI-assisted writing: An APSE model

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Journal of Second Language Writing Pub Date : 2025-02-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.jslw.2025.101187

Chaoran Wang , Zhaozhe Wang

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