ERIC Number: EJ1090045
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016-Feb
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ISSN: EISSN-1094-3501
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Effects of Web-Based Collaborative Writing on Individual L2 Writing Development
Bikowski, Dawn; Vithanage, Ramyadarshanie
Language Learning & Technology, v20 n1 p79-99 Feb 2016
This study investigated the effect of repeated in-class web-based collaborative writing tasks on second language writers' (L2) individual writing scores. A pre-test post-test research model was used in addition to participant surveys, class observations, and teacher interviews. Participants included 59 L2 writers in a writing class at a large U.S. university. The 32 participants in the experimental group engaged in four in-class web-based collaborative writing tasks, while the 27 participants in the control group engaged in the same four in-class web-based writing tasks but individually. A paired samples t-test revealed that both groups experienced statistically significant gains from their pre- to posttest scores. An independent sample t-test of pre- to post-test gains revealed that the participants in the collaborative web-based writing group experienced statistically significant writing gains in their individual writing over the participants in the individual web-based writing group. Participant survey results showed that the L2 writers valued the collaborative in-class writing tasks overall and that many participants in the individual group wished they had done in-class collaborative web-based writing. Three types of collaborative groups emerged. Pedagogical implications for technology-enhanced collaborative writing are discussed, and a Teaching Cycle for Web-Based Collaborative Writing is introduced.
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Collaborative Writing, Web Based Instruction, Writing Instruction, Teacher Attitudes, Interviews, Pretests Posttests, Experimental Groups, Statistical Analysis, Scores, Observation, Surveys, Writing Achievement, Achievement Gains, Teaching Methods, Control Groups, Educational Technology, Second Language Instruction, Undergraduate Students, English (Second Language), Computer Assisted Instruction
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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