- Istanbul University, Foreign Languages, Faculty MemberIstanbul University, Institute Of Social Sciences, Graduate Studentİstanbul Kemerburgaz University, School of Foreign Languages, Faculty MemberYildiz Technical University, English Language Teaching, Graduate Studentadd
- Methodology and Didactics of Foreign Language Teaching, Second Language Acquisition, English as a Foreign Language (EFL), Teaching English as a Second Language, Teaching English As A Foreign Language, English language teaching, English As a Second Language (ESL), World Englishes, English Grammar, Language Testing, and 23 moreNoam Chomsky, Foreign Language Education, Sociolinguistics, Linguistic Diversity (Languages And Linguistics), Teaching and Learning, Writing, Teaching Turkish As A Foreign Language, Yabancı Dil olarak Türkçe / Turc comme langue étrangère / Turkish as a foreign language, Yazma Eğitimi, Turkish Language Teaching, Writing and Evaluation, Teaching of Foreign Languages, Language Education, Writing Education, Reading Education, Critical Thinking, Educational Research, Academic Writing, Writing Assessment, Qualitative Research, Evaluation, Assessment, and Cooperative Learningedit
Most learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) consider writing a challenging task, and they experience difficulties such as organizing thoughts, selecting relevant words to represent their views, and producing rhetorical patterns... more
Most learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) consider writing a challenging task, and they experience difficulties such as organizing thoughts, selecting relevant words to represent their views, and producing rhetorical patterns specific to the target culture. Research into L2 writing suggests that collaboration in the classroom can assist students to set goals, generate ideas, write and edit, and reflect on the task. The effects of collaboration in online classes, however, remain unknown. This quasi-experimental study aims to examine the effect of online collaborative writing (OCW) in an online EFL writing class on students’ writing performance in terms of syntactic complexity, lexical complexity, and fluency. A four-week OCW intervention was carried out with 26 university students enrolled in an online English writing course at A2 level in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). Data were collected using writing tasks administered as pre- and post-...
