Conferencing Otherwise: A Feminist New Materialist Writing Experiment

Collaborative Second Language Writing: An Activity Analysis of Web Conferencing

This article discusses an undergraduate secondlanguage writing course that incorporated web conferencing. The study was informed by a sociocultural research approach known as activity theory [2]. Student reflective diary entries posted over ten weeks to the web conference helped identify features that supported or detracted from collaboration, peer evaluation and the coconstruction of academic ...

Omissions and Admissions : Poetic writing , feminist ethnography and empathetic violence

A Materialist Believe in Qualia ?

Should a materialist believe in qualia? Yes and no. 'Qual ia ' is a name for the occupants of a certain functional role that is spelled out in our tacitly known folk psychology. If materialism is true, there are no perfect occupants of the role, and hence no perfect deservers of the name. But in all probability there are imperfect occupants of the role, imperfect deservers of the name. Good eno...

New materialist social inquiry: designs, methods and the research-assemblage

The impact of portfolios and conferencing on Iranian EFL learners’ writing skill

The main purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of portfolios and conferencing techniques on Iranian EFL learners' writing skill. The experiment involved Iranian intermediate students that were randomly assigned to two experimental groups and one control group. The participants of the first experimental group were asked to provide portfolios of their 4 paragraphs during the course ...