USING WIKI-BASED PEER-CORRECTION TO DEVELOP WRITING SKILLS OF BRAZILIAN EFL LEARNERS
Journal Title: Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language) - Year 2008, Vol 2, Issue 1
Abstract
This paper focuses on a creative way of enabling learners to profit from writing, which is peer-correction through wikis. Learners are empowered with technological tools as a means of promoting a student-centred approach, which contributes to their being less dependent of the teacher, fostering an autonomous learning. Data was collected and analyzed by means of qualitative and quantitative methods. The aim of these analyses is primarily to determine whether students’ writing skill will be improved if collaborative learning strategies are applied into the digital context, namely through wikis. Findings show that an increasing interest in belonging to an online community emerges from students altogether with higher degrees of motivation. Apart from maximizing opportunities related to writing, learners accurately developed their social skills in the sense that they cooperated instead of competing. The results also suggest that wikis provide learners with many benefits in developing their writing skills.
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Claudio de Paiva FRANCO
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