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Hsiu-Chen Hsu – Language Learning & Technology, 2024
This study examined the effects of pretask training to promote peer collaboration, encourage learning opportunities, and foster individual L2 writing development in web-based L2 collaborative writing (CW) tasks. The participants were 48 students from two junior English composition classes at a Taiwanese university. One class (n = 24) was assigned…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Second Language Learning, Writing (Composition), Electronic Learning
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Hsieh, Yi Chin – ReCALL, 2020
This study explores interactions among language learners with the support of online resources in a collaborative writing task and how online resources assisted collaborating learners in the meaning-making process. The study was conducted in the freshman English course at a national university in Taiwan. Fifty-six students constructed an essay in…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
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Hsu, Hsiu-Chen; Lo, Yun-Fang – Language Learning & Technology, 2018
This study investigated the effect of wiki-mediated collaborative writing on the development of learners' individual writing in a second language (L2). Participants were 52 learners of English as a foreign language enrolled in two intact junior writing classes at a Taiwanese university. One class was assigned to be a wiki-collaborative writing…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Pretests Posttests
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Yeh, Shiou-Wen; Chen, Cheng-Ting – Language Education & Assessment, 2019
Based on the advantages of collaborative writing and the advanced development of mobile technology, this study investigated the communication process and attitudes of a group of college students toward collaborative writing using a "Google Docs" app on an English writing course. Online collaborative writing assignments were assigned by…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Collaborative Writing
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Yang, Yu-Fen – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2018
This study reports on how students construct new language knowledge by indirect feedback in web-based collaborative writing. Indirect feedback (text organization, reader-based perspectives, and clarity of purpose) encourages students to negotiate meaning instead of merely copying peers' direct feedback on grammatical corrections. According to the…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Collaborative Writing, Questionnaires, Language Proficiency
Lin, Chun-Yi – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
Given the fact that more and more universities stress on using English as medium to teach students with diverse backgrounds, the content and language integrated learning approach (CLIL) is now frequently introduced to faculty to support effective instruction and learning. Inspired by a CLIL workshop I attended, in which the instructor offered an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Student Participation
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Loucky, John Paul – International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments, 2012
Task-based language learning using the benefits of online computer-assisted language learning (CALL) can be effective for rapid vocabulary expansion, especially when target vocabulary has been pre-arranged into bilingual categories under simpler, common Semantic Field Keywords. Results and satisfaction levels for both Chinese English majors and…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Vocabulary Development, College Students, Collaborative Writing
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Papadima-Sophocleous, Salomi, Ed.; Bradley, Linda, Ed.; Thouësny, Sylvie, Ed. – Research-publishing.net, 2016
The 23rd EUROCALL conference was held in Cyprus from the 24th to the 27th of August 2016. The theme of the conference this year was "CALL Communities and Culture." It offered a unique opportunity to hear from real-world CALL practitioners on how they practice CALL in their communities, and how the CALL culture has developed in local and…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Nunes, Miguel Baptista, Ed.; McPherson, Maggie, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2013
These proceedings contain the papers of the International Conference e-Learning 2013, which was organised by the International Association for Development of the Information Society and is part of the Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (Prague, Czech Republic, July 23-26, 2013). The e-Learning 2013 conference aims to…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Educational Technology, Electronic Learning, Technology Uses in Education