This study investigates the benefits of e-collaborative and collaborative writing tasks on the perception of Iranian EFL learners in a process-oriented approach. The study involved 74 intermediate Iranian EFL students at Islamic Azad University, Isfahan Branch. They were divided into three groups by random assignment as two experimental groups and one control group. The experimental groups were...

Computational reflection is a useful technique for avoiding the overhead inherent in constructing large proof objects. However, to date it is significantly more time consuming to write reflective procedures than the equivalent tactics. Can we build a lightweight tactic language for building reflective procedures easily? To this end, we present Rtac, a lightweight, work-in-progress, tactic langu...

This article focuses on how confession operates in contemporary discourses on reflective practices. By revisiting and mobilising Foucault’s genealogy of confession in relation to how reflective practices are mobilised in an in-service training programme for health care assistants (HCA) in elderly care, it is argued that the HCAs are shaped as their own confessors. It is further argued that we n...

Reflective thought, as sustained in writing, is ottributed to two-way communication between o content problem space and a rhetorical problem space. An instructional experiment involving sixth-graders aimed at helping them sustoin such a two-way process independently, in place of the more typical onewoy process of generating content and writing it out. Instruction included modeling of thinking a...

This paper describes the use of the reflective journal in a computer programming course at the University of South Australia. We describe rationale for the journal relating it to the contribution it can make to generic skills of lifelong learning, problem-solving, communication and awareness of personal learning strategies. We also relate it to the Personal Software Process (PSP) used by indust...