Alghasab, Maha, Hardman, Jan orcid.org/0000-0001-6404-8837 and Handley, Zoe Louise orcid.org/0000-0002-4732-3443 (2019) Teacher-student interaction on wikis:fostering collaborative learning and writing. Learning, Culture and Social Interaction. pp. 10-20. ISSN 2210-657X
Abstract
Wikis are widely considered to be student-centred platforms which promote collaborative learning. Previous research has, however, demonstrated that without teacher intervention some students fail to engage with one another collaboratively in these environments. This study contributes to the emerging literature on the role of teachers in supporting collaborative learning during wiki activities by examining teacher and student online interaction during wiki-mediated collaborative writing activities in three Kuwaiti high school English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classes. Teacher and student discussion posts and text edits during the eight-week projects were analysed using a discourse analysis framework and triangulated with data from semi-structured interviews. The findings revealed that the approaches adopted by the teachers in this study ranged from directive to dialogic. Where the teachers took a more directive approach, students tended to interact with the teacher rather than with the peers and wrote by themselves individually. Where the teachers adopted a more dialogic approach, however, there was greater student-to-student interaction and collaboration leading to jointly constructed texts. Such findings point to the benefits of adopting a dialogic approach to teaching during wiki-mediated collaborative writing activities.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018 Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | EFL collaborative writing,Educational dialogue,Socio-cultural theory,Teacher professional training,Teacher-student interaction,Wiki |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Education (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 03 Jan 2019 11:50 |
Last Modified: | 08 Dec 2024 00:13 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lcsi.2018.12.002 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.lcsi.2018.12.002 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:140487 |
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