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Date Posted: Sun, Aug 25 2013, 20:42:34 PDT Hi everyone, Here are the ideas I have started to write. Please make corrections, especially when it comes to the citations (I am not sure about the correct pages) and plagiarism. Best wishes, Bárbara In their study about collaborative online language learning, Greg Kessler, Dawn Bikowski and Jordan Boggs analyzed how collaborative writing takes place in a web-based context. The authors explored the use of the resources by the students involved, taking into account their participation, perception of the process and objectives. The study points out that students tend to focus their correction on meaning rather than on form. (p.1). When the authors discuss about the role of technologies in collaborative writing, they mention important tools that are used by participants in order to achieve a final written paper. When analyzing the forms that students usually communicate, they cite an important one known as wiki. According to Hunter (2011), “online collaborative environment is helping redefine contributor’s ideas of authorship.” (p .2). Wikis are commonly known as a place for integrated work and collaboration, and, according to the authors, it is the perfect place for the gathering of ideas and exchange of knowledge and opinion. When dealing with collaborative writing in the article entitled “STUDENT-INITIATED ATTENTION TO FORM IN WIKI-BASED COLLABORATIVE WRITING”, Greg Kessler analyzed “ the collaborative construction of a wiki among pre-service Non-Native Speaker (NNS) English teachers.” (p .1). Kessler focused his study in the students’ ability to correct individual and peer mistakes, as well as the level of accuracy they achieved. (p.3). The results shown are interconnected to the previous article, where the author mentions that “students were more likely to be accurate when focusing on grammar rather than correcting grammar as a secondary act while focusing on meaning.” (p. 12). The author also points out that more teacher intervention seems to be necessary in order to have more correction on form. As a common result of both studies, students worked successfully in groups and all the individual and peer contributions were of a great importance. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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| Re: Ideas | Michael de Souza (Tired) | Sun, Aug 25 2013, 21:46:50 PDT |
| Re: Ideas | Nivia | Mon, Aug 26 2013, 5:55:05 PDT |