This study aimed to examine the effect of two types of collaborative output tasks on Iranian EFL learners’ comparative adjectives with two or more syllables. Thirty Iranian EFL learners participated in this study which were then divided into two experimental and one control groups; one experimental group received dictogloss task in 4-pairs and the other experimental group was given text reconst...

The present research study aimed to explore covert processes of editing and revision which were involved in writing four different academic text genres (i.e. abstract, conclusion, data commentary, and cover letter) in English language. To this end, six EFL learners with Persian as their mother were recruited to participate in this study. All the participants attended an induction session and ea...

Online text chat is a very popular Internet-based application. Previous studies have identified several problems with standard text chat systems. Real-time collaborative editing systems can be used for text chat. This paper compares text chat via collaborative editing systems with text chat via standard text chat systems. It has been identified that standard text chat system do not maintain som...

The completion mode (individual, collaborative) of the tasks and the conditions under which these modes are performed have been reported to play an important role in language learning. The present study aimed to investigate the effects of employing text editing tasks performed both individually and collaboratively, on the achievement of English grammar under explicit and implicit learning condi...

The aim of this paper is to compare three different text editing interfaces for Digital Terrestrial Television. The study shows a significant relationship between users’ level of experience in text editing using mobile phone and their favourite interface. Moreover, the analysis demonstrates that there is no relationship between users’ level of experience and the editing problems they encountered.

Layers is a nascent text editing concept that combines text versioning into the editing process. Its versioning model is always-merged, conflict-free, and fully visible and manipulable within the editing interface. This report describes the underlying model and some of its properties, the implementation, the user interface, and applications to software engineering.