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Effects of Transcription Mode on Word-Level Features of Compositional Quality among French Immersion Elementary Students

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Transcription is an important component of the writing process that affects the quality of children’s compositions. However, little is known about how transcription mode influences productivity or spelling accuracy, two word-level markers of compositional quality, among children learning to write in an additional language. To address this issue, we compared the effects of handwriting and keyboarding on text length and spelling in the compositions of L2 French learners. Grade 2 to 4 students (n = 48) in French Immersion were given two writing prompts and asked to produce one text on paper and one using a keyboard. The prompts were counterbalanced across the two writing conditions. The total number of words, total number of words spelled correctly, and proportion of correctly spelled words were calculated. A series of repeated measures ANOVAs revealed an advantage in both the average number of correctly spelled words and the proportion of correctly spelled words in the students’ compositions favouring the keyboarding condition. Conversely, the total number of words across conditions was not significantly different. Our findings suggest that keyboarding may offer an advantage over handwriting with respect to spelling accuracy in the context of L2 composition in the elementary years.
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hal-04633197 , version 1 (03-07-2024)

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Michelle Chin, Carolyn White, Diana Burchell, Kathleen Hipfner-Boucher, Lucie Broc, et al.. Effects of Transcription Mode on Word-Level Features of Compositional Quality among French Immersion Elementary Students. Languages, 2024, 9 (7), pp.234. ⟨10.3390/languages9070234⟩. ⟨hal-04633197⟩
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