Exploring virtual collaborative writing in the EFL classroom
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UAM. Departamento de Filología InglesaPublisher
Research-publishing.netDate
2018-12-08Citation
10.14705/rpnet.2018.26.835
Martínez-Sáez, Antonio; Corral-Esteban, Avelino; Vinagre-Laranjeira, Margarita. "Exploring virtual collaborative writing in the EFL classroom". Future-proof CALL: language learning as exploration and encounters – short papers from EUROCALL 2018. Eds. Taalas, Peppi; Jalkanen, Juha ; Bradley, Linda; Thouësny, Sylvie Research-publishing.net, 2018. 188-192
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9782490057221DOI
10.14705/rpnet.2018.26.835Funded by
This research was funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (EDU2014-54673R)Project
Gobierno de España. EDU2014-54673REditor's Version
https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2018.26.835Subjects
language learning; collaborative writing; virtual collaboration; discourse analysis; EducaciónRights
© 2018 Antonio Martínez-Sáez, Avelino Corral-Esteban, Margarita Vinagre-LaranjeiraAbstract
With the integration of new technologies in the foreign language classroom, the practice of collaborative writing has gained renewed attention, although some questions still remain unanswered regarding the extent to which these tools help learners in their writing when compared to more traditional learning contexts (Elola & Oskoz, 2010). In order to explore these issues, we analysed the written production of 84 undergraduate students of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) using the LIWC20154 software. The analysis revealed significant differences in categories such as word count, clout, emotional tone, or analytical thinking when comparing the texts written by an experimental and a control group. Moreover, regarding discourse, some differences were observed in terms of the way information was presented and structured
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