This paper presents the English as A Second Language (ESL) learners’ motivation for using Google Docs to write collaboratively. The study includes motivations in writing regarding interaction with classmates and a lecturer. It employed descriptive research design collecting data current study. Eighty (80) diploma students were included identify their experiences of platform two critical variabl...

Researchers have many software options to write research papers on their own, but comparatively fewer options when they want to collaborate with others. Techniques such as Concurrent Versioning Systems and Computer Supported Cooperative Work groupware systems are still used far less often than email exchange of documents annotated with changes. We argue that the two main reasons for this state ...

This study reports on the differences in motivation, vocabulary gain, and perceptions on using or the Google Docs between individual and collaborative learning at a tertiary level. Two classes of English-as-a-Foreign Language (EFL) students were recruited and each class was randomly assigned into one of the two groups individuals or collaborators. The results of the study are in line with those...

Collaborative editors are simple tools that enable people to create, share and exchange documents via Internet, quickly enhancing learning, knowledge and socialization. However, at present collaborative software is designed with little attention to the needs of differently-abled persons, such as the blind. Dynamic user interfaces and visual features delivering meaning may be inaccessible via sc...

Students' responses to teacher's feedback can affect their emotions and attitude toward tasks they are working with. Amidst the growing use of digital tools in facilitating English writing classes, this current article explores students' given on Google Docs. This descriptive qualitative study gathered data through a questionnaire from twenty-three university students majoring Education Departm...

Google Docs has recently been suggested as an efficient collaborative tool for group writing. This experimental quantitative study, including pretest-treatment-posttest design, aimed at comparing the effects of writing on and individual practice EFL learners’ descriptive paragraphs. The participants were 48 Turkish learners pre-intermediate level proficiency, based their performance Oxford Plac...

The increasing use of social media is revolutionizing the way students learn, communicate and collaborate. Many of the skills used with social media are similar to those needed to work in a knowledge-based society. To better understand student nurses’ use of social media in relation to their learning, an anonymous survey was distributed to all undergraduate nursing students enrolled at one nurs...