Collaborative Writing on Google Docs

Taiwanese Students’ Participation, Behaviors, and Writing Trajectories with Real-work Online Tasks

Bibliographic Data

ID22023251
AuthorsShu Fen Yeh (Cheng Shiu University, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume12
Issue3
Pages73
Publication date2021-06-30
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAdvances in Language and Literary Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2203-4714 • E-ISSN: 2203-4714
PublisherAustralian International Academic Centre (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.7575/aiac.alls.v.12n.3.p.73
OpenAlexW3180568972
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited8

In the past two decades, the growing rage of computer mediated environments (CMC) affords new literacies and new opportunities for language learners to experience, construct, communicate, and access knowledge (Ware, Kern & Warschauer, 2016). Also, it suggests that writing in multimodal in the digital ear contributes to its production and interpretation (Canagarajah, 2013) and can be particularly beneficial for L2 learners’ writing practices (Elola & Oskoz, 2010) such as writing quality (Stroch, 2005), writing fluency (Bloch, 2007), academic voices (Sperling & Appleman, 2011) and a sense of audience (Sun & Chang, 2012). Google Docs and online text-chat systems are prominent collaborative tools for group writing, and the result shows that the focus group displayed a mixed-interaction pattern, a collaborative pattern in two online text-chat systems, and a more dominant-passive pattern while co-constructing the text. They study also explored that changing the mode of communication from Line to Google Docs chat-room appears to have led to an increase in the participants’ interaction and communication and seems to have facilitated collaboration. Participants make a significant contribution of two types of writing changing functions, adding and correcting in the text and make revisions to their text

Collaborative writing · Computer-mediated communication · Fluency · Focus group · Linguistics · Mathematics education · Multimedia · Online chat · Second language · Second language writing · Sociology · The Internet · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Digital Communication and Language · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Psychology

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