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Peer reviewedKumpulainen, Kristiina – Computers and Composition, 1994
Examines ways primary-aged children in the United Kingdom and Finland socially construct writing while using computers. Finds children's talk to be highly task-related and to concern mostly composing, not ways in which to use the computer. Suggests that ways in which children interact and write while using computers are embedded in wider…
Descriptors: Childrens Writing, Collaborative Writing, Computer Uses in Education, Cross Cultural Studies
Olson, Kerry; Johnston, Jerome – 1989
A study examined the pilot year of the Computers in Early Literacy (CIEL) program, a multi-year project aimed at developing and assessing various strategies for improving the literacy development of children in kindergarten and the first grade. Subjects, 25 kindergarten and 22 first-grade students in a midwestern primary school, received three…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Beginning Writing, Classroom Research, Computer Uses in Education
Butler, Sydney J.; Cox, Barbara – 1990
A case study explored the composing processes of two grade one students to determine the role of the computer as a learning tool in the first grade classroom. Analysis of the texts of the children's writing and transcriptions of the tape-recorded collaborative exercise in writing and computer use by the children revealed that young children, given…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Collaborative Writing, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education
Kurth, Ruth J.; Kurth, Lila M. – 1987
A study was conducted in which word processing and voice synthesis were used to teach beginning writing skills to kindergarten and first grade students. Subjects, 46 children from two elementary schools enrolled in an early education summer school class in writing, were randomly divided into three groups. One group was taught writing using a…
Descriptors: Beginning Writing, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Cooperation
Heap, James L. – 1986
A study examined the behavior of first graders as they collaborated on a writing exercise using a word processor. Data were collected over three weeks in the form of fieldnotes and 13.5 hours of videotape of students working at the computer. Videotapes were examined to locate patterns of discourse and physical actions, and by abstracting from the…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Foreign Countries
