This qualitative study aimed at exploring the causes of writing anxiety from an expansive learning perspec- tive. Given the centrality of writing for both EFL learners and teachers, writing anxiety was explored through a longitudinal study spanning two years with 25 EFL learners and teachers who participated by providing comments, diaries, and documents. The participants were also observe...

Wikis are being increasingly used as a tool for conducting collaborative writing assignments in today’s classrooms. However, Wikis in general (1) do not provide group formation methods to more specifically facilitate collaborative learning of the students and (2) suffer from typical problems of collaborative learning like detection of free-riding (earning credit without contribution). To improv...

Adessowiki is a collaborative environment for scientific writing and programming. The system is composed of a collection of collaborative web pages in the form of a wiki. The articles of this wiki can embed programming code that will be executed on the server when the page is rendered, incorporating the results as figures, texts and tables on the document. We present in this paper the benefits ...

Collaborative research and writing across disciplines institutions happens frequently in discipline-based research. However, opportunities for cross-collaborative scholarship teaching learning is limited comparison (Kahn et al., 2013; MacKenzie Myers, 2012). Yet the value of larger scale, team-based approaches to scholarly well recognised building networks providing a deeper understanding topic...

Wikis have been reported as tools that promote collaborative writing in educational settings. Examples of wikis in teacher education are group projects, glossary creation, teacher evaluation, and document review. However, in spite of studies that report on successful stories, the claim that wikis support collaborative writing has not yet been firmly confirmed in real educational settings. Most ...