ERIC Number: EJ1093484
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016
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Cooperative Writing Response Groups: Revising Global Aspects of Second-Language Writing in a Constrained Educational Environment
Porto, Melina
Journal of Further and Higher Education, v40 n3 p293-315 2016
This article describes a cooperative writing response initiative designed to develop writing skills in foreign/second-language contexts (hereafter L2). The strategy originated from my desire to cater for my learners' need to become better writers in English within a constrained educational environment in Argentina. In this article I describe this strategy and show how it has worked in my setting. First, I offer the rationale on which it rests, based on a sociocultural conception of reading and writing. This involves brief considerations about the notions of collaborative writing groups, social responses to texts and coherence in L2 writing. Second, I describe and explain the strategy in detail, and include one handout with specific written instructions (as my learners received them) for the cooperative writing response groups with a focus on coherence, i.e. global aspects of the composing process. Finally, I exemplify the strategy using one learner's written text as a foundation (disclosed by permission).
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Collaborative Writing, Second Language Learning, Writing Skills, Skill Development, Writing Improvement, English (Second Language), Reader Text Relationship, Reader Response, Cooperative Learning, Rhetoric, Metacognition, Writing Processes, Program Implementation, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction, Inferences, Connected Discourse
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Argentina
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