Online collaborative writing in an online EFL writing class

Collaborative Writing Practice through Online Learning: Insights from Iranian EFL Learners’ Perceptions

This study investigates the benefits of e-collaborative and collaborative writing tasks on the perception of Iranian EFL learners in a process-oriented approach. The study involved 74 intermediate Iranian EFL students at Islamic Azad University, Isfahan Branch. They were divided into three groups by random assignment as two experimental groups and one control group. The experimental groups were...

Effects of Online Peer Response on EFL College Writing

Discovering Collaborative e-Learning Through an Online Writing Course

At the University of Padua in Italy, PhD students at the Faculty of Engineering do not attend traditional lectures as they did when they were undergraduate students; instead, they focus most of their time on research activities. When these students obtain significant results from their research, they must complete their projects by publishing these results in English, which is "now indisputably...

Effects of Receiving Corrective Feedback through Online Chats and Class Discussions on Iranian EFL Learners' Writing Quality

Giving corrective feedback (CF) is an essential part of the teaching and learning process, and the way it should beneficially be done has been the focus of attention for numerous researchers especially when traditional ways of CF provision are not possible, particularly in rare situations such as outbreaks of diseases. This study investigated how different ways of giving feedback; namely, throu...

Collaborative Online Writing Assignments to Foster Active Learning

To help students master the content of a neurophysiology course, they were asked to participate in collaborative writing projects. In the first two years, students contributed to a class wiki by summarizing one lecture and editing summaries of several others. In the second two years, students worked in teams of three or four to write a series of illustrated chapters spanning the entire semester...