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Impacts of Computer-Assisted Collaborative Writing, Collaborative Prewriting, and Individual Writing on EFL Learners' Performance and Motivation
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Marjan Ebadijalal; Shahab Moradkhani – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2025
The present mixed-methods study aimed at investigating the effects of three writing conditions, including collaborative writing (CW), collaborative prewriting (CPW), and individual writing (IW), on the performance and motivation of 66 Iranian EFL learners in a computer-mediated communication (CMC) context. Data were obtained through a background…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Collaborative Writing, Prewriting, Writing (Composition)
Enhancing EFL Learners' Intercultural Communicative Effectiveness through Telecollaboration with Native and Non-Native Speakers of English
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Gi-Zen Liu; Jalil Fathi; Masoud Rahimi – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2025
Intercultural communicative competence (ICC) has recently attracted the researchers' attention in the English as a foreign language (EFL) context; however, insufficient studies seem to have examined the role of online programmes in enhancing EFL learners' ICC. The current study, therefore, employed a mixed-methods approach to explore EFL learners'…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Implementing Mobile-Mediated Dynamic Assessment for Teaching Request Forms to EFL Learners
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Rassaei, Ehsan – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2023
The main purpose of the present study is to propose a framework for implementing group dynamic assessment (DA) using students' smartphones for improving and assessing EFL learners' ability to produce well-formed and appropriate requests. This study focuses on five learner reciprocity moves during DA interactions to get deeper insights into the…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Recasts during Mobile-Mediated Audio and Video Interactions: Learners' Responses, Their Interpretations, and the Development of English Articles
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Rassaei, Ehsan – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2022
The study reported here investigated the effects of recasts on L2 development in terms of promoting EFL learners' accuracy in using English articles during mobile-mediated audio and video interactions. Fifty-two Iranian EFL learners were randomly assigned into two audio and video recasts conditions as well as two audio and video control groups.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Video Technology, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
The Differential Effects of Collaborative vs. Individual Prewriting Planning on Computer-Mediated L2 Writing: Transferability of Task-Based Linguistic Skills in Focus
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Amiryousefi, Mohammad – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2017
The current study aimed at investigating the effects of three types of prewriting planning conditions, namely teacher-monitored collaborative planning (TMCP), student-led collaborative planning (SLCP), and individual planning (IP) on EFL learners' computer-mediated L2 written production and learning transfer from a pedagogic task to a new task of…
Descriptors: Prewriting, Collaborative Writing, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Mediating EFL Learners' Academic Writing Skills in Online Dynamic Assessment Using Google Docs
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Ebadi, Saman; Rahimi, Masoud – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2019
Drawing on Vygotskian sociocultural theory of mind and social constructivism, and adopting a sequential exploratory mixed-methods approach, this study explored the impact of online dynamic assessment (DA) on EFL learners' academic writing skills through one-on-one individual and online synchronous DA sessions over Google Docs. It also investigated…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Sociocultural Patterns
The Differential Effects of Two Types of Task Repetition on the Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency in Computer-Mediated L2 Written Production: A Focus on Computer Anxiety
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Amiryousefi, Mohammad – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2016
Previous task repetition studies have primarily focused on how task repetition characteristics affect the complexity, accuracy, and fluency in L2 oral production with little attention to L2 written production. The main purpose of the study reported in this paper was to examine the effects of task repetition versus procedural repetition on the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Task Analysis, Language Fluency