A Comparison between Chinese EFL Students' Peer Response Sessions Held on Networked Computers and Those Held in a Face-to-Face Setting [microform] / Su-yueh Huang
- Bib ID:
- 5621083
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- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Huang, Su-yueh
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- [Washington D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1998
- 6 p.
- Summary:
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This study compared techniques for teaching collaborative writing to English majors in Taiwan, focusing on the effectiveness of computer-mediated (CM) vs. face-to-face (FF) peer response sessions, measured by amount of speech produced by students and the level of participation in discussion. Subjects were 17 university sophomores in a composition course, divided into four writing groups. Peer response sessions for half of the writing assignments were conducted using synchronous discussion on networked computers, and half were conducted using face-to-face interaction. Analysis of transcripts of the sessions revealed that FF sessions were far more efficient in producing speech (2.5 times greater in five-person groups). Level of student participation in the discussion of each writing issue was much lower in the CM context, and it was only infrequently that discussion of a writing issue had full-group participation. In a typical CM discussion episode, only one student spoke, with no one responding. In contrast, a typical FF discussion episode had the participation of three students. Implications for writing instruction are drawn. (MSE)
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- ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International NELLE Conference (6th, Bielefeld, Germany, August 27-30, 1998).
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- Subject:
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- Behavior Patterns
- Classroom Communication
- Classroom Techniques
- Collaborative Writing
- College Students
- Comparative Analysis
- Computer Mediated Communication
- English (Second Language)
- Foreign Countries
- Higher Education
- Language Role
- Language Usage
- Majors (Students)
- Second Language Instruction
- Student Attitudes
- Student Behavior
- Teleconferencing
- Writing Instruction
- Taiwan
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