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Godwin-Jones, Robert – Language Learning & Technology, 2018
This article provides an update to the author's overview of developments in second language (L2) online writing that he wrote in 2008. There has been renewed interest in L2 writing through the wide use of social media, along with the rising popularity of computer-mediated communication (CMC) and telecollaboration (class-based online exchanges).…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Computer Mediated Communication, Second Language Instruction, Writing Instruction
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Yoon, Choongil – Language Learning & Technology, 2016
The present study investigated how 6 Korean ESL graduate students in Canada used a suite of freely available reference resources, consisting of Web-based corpus tools, Google search engines, and dictionaries, for solving linguistic problems while completing an authentic academic writing assignment in English. Using a mixed methods design, the…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Writing (Composition), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Xu, Cuiqin; Ding, Yanren – Language Learning & Technology, 2014
The advance of computer input log and screen-recording programs over the last two decades has greatly facilitated research into the writing process in real time. Using Inputlog 4.0 and Camtasia 6.0 to record the writing process of 24 Chinese EFL writers in an argumentative task, this study explored L2 writers' pausing patterns in computer-assisted…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Writing Assignments, Persuasive Discourse
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Li, Zhi; Hegelheimer, Volker – Language Learning & Technology, 2013
In this paper, we report on the development and implementation of a web-based mobile application, "Grammar Clinic," for an ESL writing class. Drawing on insights from the interactionist approach to Second Language Acquisition (SLA), the Noticing Hypothesis, and mobile-assisted language learning (MALL), "Grammar Clinic" was…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Grammar, Editing, English (Second Language)
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Cowan, Ron; Choo, Jinhee; Lee, Gabseon Sunny – Language Learning & Technology, 2014
This study illustrates how a synergy of two technologies--Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning (ICALL) and corpus linguistic analysis--can produce a lasting improvement in L2 learners' ability to edit persistent grammatical errors from their writing. A large written English corpus produced by Korean undergraduate and graduate students…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Elola, Idoia; Oskoz, Ana – Language Learning & Technology, 2010
The use of social technologies, such as wikis and chats, has brought a renewed attention to L2 collaborative writing. Yet, a question that still remains to be answered is the extent to which learners' writing is enhanced when using these tools. By analyzing learners' individual and collaborative writing, this study (a) explores L2 learners'…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Collaborative Writing, Second Language Learning, Cooperative Learning
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Diez-Bedmar, Maria Belen; Perez-Paredes, Pascual – Language Learning & Technology, 2012
Online collaborative writing tasks are frequently undertaken in forums and wikis. Variation between these two communication modes has yet to be examined, particularly type of feedback and its effects. We investigated the type of feedback and the impact of English native-speakers' feedback on Spanish peers' discourse restructuring in the context of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Feedback (Response), Collaborative Writing, Native Speakers
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Kessler, Greg; Bikowski, Dawn; Boggs, Jordan – Language Learning & Technology, 2012
This study investigates Web-based, project oriented, many-to-many collaborative writing for academic purposes. Thirty-eight Fulbright scholars in an orientation program at a large Midwestern university used a Web-based word processing tool to collaboratively plan and report on a research project. The purpose of this study is to explore and…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Collaborative Writing, Writing Processes, Teaching Methods