Web 2.0 online collaboration toolsas environments for task-based writing instruction

Jarosław KRAJKA

doi:https://doi.org/10.1501/Egifak_0000001255

Article Details

Web 2.0 online collaboration toolsas environments for task-based writing instruction

Authors:

Jarosław KRAJKA

Publisher:

Ankara University

Journal:

Ankara University Journal of Faculty of Educational Sciences (JFES) 2012 Vol.45 Issue 2, pp.97-118

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

9/2012

Document Language:

Turkish

Document ID (Org No.):

2000868925

Frequency:

Tri-annual

eISSN:

2458-8342

pISSN:

1301-3718

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1501/Egifak_0000001255

Abstract:

 

The paper presents an overview of a pilot study
 aiming at developing university students’ writing competence with the
 use of a selected Web 2.0 collaboration tool as authoring environment
 for Task-Based Language Teaching. Online word processors were
 used to design a pre-task, task and post-task sequence which was
 implemented in varied modes of work when teaching English to
 students at the Department of German Studies, Maria CurieSkłodowska
 University in Lublin, Poland.
 The specific aim of the study was to investigate the applicability
 of one particular online collaborative environment, namely an online
 word processor such as Google Docs (http://docs.google.com), to
 implement form-focused language teaching at a tertiary level. The
 study was conducted in an action research fashion, with two parallel
 groups of students using two different collaborative environments
 (wikis and online word processors).
 As it was found out, the idea of learning writing in collaboration
 mediated by online resources was new to students and the awareness
 of how to make the best use of peer editing and peer feedback had to
 be established among students first. Once it was done, however,
 collaborative learning online proved to be a powerful vehicle for
 language instruction. The emergence of new Web 2.0 tools facilitating
 collaboration and publishing such as online word processors has
 helped to redefine the process of teaching language skills, and
 specifically writing, in the TBLT framework.

Article Details

Web 2.0 online collaboration toolsas environments for task-based writing instruction

Authors: Jarosław KRAJKA

Publisher: Ankara University

Journal: Ankara University Journal of Faculty of Educational Sciences (JFES) 2012 Vol.45 Issue 2, pp.97-118

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 9/2012

Document Language: Turkish

Document ID (Org No.): 2000868925

Frequency: Tri-annual

eISSN: 2458-8342

pISSN: 1301-3718

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1501/Egifak_0000001255

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Authors:

Jarosław KRAJKA

Publisher:

Ankara University

Journal:

Ankara University Journal of Faculty of Educational Sciences (JFES) 2012 Vol.45 Issue 2, pp.97-118

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

9/2012

Document Language:

Turkish

Document ID (Org No.):

2000868925

Frequency:

Tri-annual

eISSN:

2458-8342

pISSN:

1301-3718

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1501/Egifak_0000001255