It is the journal of the Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO). Affordances of Web 2.0 Technologies for Collaborative Advanced Writing in a Learner Control and Error Correction in ICALL: Browsers, Peekers,. in the Core of Computer Assisted Instruction. MA of TEFL activated through e-mail before writing and e-mailing topics while the control group received no. Writing to Rea...

This study sought to investigate dynamic assessment (DA) - an assessment approach that embeds inter- vention within the assessment process and that yields information about the learner’s responsiveness to this intervention - and the writing performance of the second language (L2) learners in Web 2.0 contexts. To this end, pre and post-treatment writings of 45 par...

research on pre-task planning has revealed that planned conditions have produced more fluent and complex language than unplanned conditions. to date, most of these studies have investigated the effects of individual planning on language production while collaborative planning has received scant attention. to determine the effects of pre-task planning on second language written production, the p...

The present study was an attempt to investigate the significance of environmental changes on the develo p- ment of writing in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) context with respect to the individual. This study also compared the impacts of collaboration and asynchronous computer mediation (ACM) on the writing complexity of EFL learners. To this end, three intact writing classes were designate...

At the University of Padua in Italy, PhD students at the Faculty of Engineering do not attend traditional lectures as they did when they were undergraduate students; instead, they focus most of their time on research activities. When these students obtain significant results from their research, they must complete their projects by publishing these results in English, which is "now indisputably...

this investigation postulatesvygotsky’s (1978) concept of zone of proximal development (zpd) and his related “scaffolding” metaphor as well as norton’s (2006) principles of sociocultural identity as its theoretical foundation.thisresearchintends to scrutinizethe socioculturally-oriented mediationalmechanisms utilized in student-student and student-teacher collaborationsin an iranian efl writing...

CoProcess is a Java-based environment to facilitate collaborative process management over the Worldwide Web (WWW). It can support a wide variety of applications that may involve lling forms, sending e-mail, searching a database (or web) for information, establishing a tele-conference within a group, collaborative writing, reviewing, and editing of documents, and other video and audio record/pla...

Psychologists have been taking an increasing interest in the writing process over the last decade and models of human cognition and task behaviour during writing are emerging (see e.g., Hayes and Flower 1980, Sharples et al 1989). Though we are far short of a complete model of this process several basic components have been identified and most theorists allude to these at some stage in their de...