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Exploring immediate and prolonged effects of collaborative writing on young learners’ texts: L2 versus FL

  • Izaskun Villarreal ORCID logo EMAIL logo und Amaia Martínez-Sánchez
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 19. Januar 2023

Abstract

Context or the teaching/learning environment has only recently been recognized as a mediating variable in L2/FL written performance. These studies are multisite and have not yet targeted another feature of context: the sociolinguistic status of the target language. Likewise, scarce research exists examining the prolonged effects of collaboration. The present classroom-based study fills this void by investigating the effects of collaboration on the (a) jointly written texts; (b) subsequent individual texts; and (c) texts written in two distinct sociolinguistic status target languages of two groups of 11–12-year-old Spanish primary education students. Distributed into a control (CG) (N = 17) and an experimental group (EG) (N = 10 pairs), they wrote three descriptive texts in each language, L2 Basque and FL English: the first and third individually and the second one individually by the CG and in pairs by the EG. The texts were examined qualitatively with a rubric and quantitatively for fluency and accuracy measures. Immediate and prolonged effects of collaboration were observed on accuracy, while fluency decreased and global qualitative scores varied very little. Additionally, unlike in the CG, language-dependent differences were not attested in the EG which suggests that collaborative writing is an expedient tool to increase attention to language and limit the mediating effects of the learning context.


Corresponding author: Izaskun Villarreal, I-Communitas, Public University of Navarre, Campus Arrosadía, Dpto. Filología y Didáctica de la Lengua, 31006 Pamplona, Spain, E-mail:

Acknowledgments

We would like to thank the school, the teachers and the children for their willingness and generosity to participate in this project.

Appendix A

Analytic rubric for assessing the compositions based on Villarreal and Munarriz-Ibarrola (2021).

Marks
3 2 1
Task Adequacy
  1. All the points in the instructions are mentioned.

  2. The length of the text is appropriate.

  1. Some points in the instructions are not mentioned.

  2. The text could be longer: Ideas could be more developed.

  1. Notable omission of the content points and/or considerable irrelevance of some of them.

  2. The text is too short: Ideas are not fully developed.

Coherence
  1. The text is clear.

  2. The text is easy to understand.

  1. The text is clear.

  2. The text is easy to understand, although some incoherent points can confuse the reader.

  1. The text is not clear.

  2. The text is difficult to understand.

Language Cohesion
  1. Ideas are well organised.

  2. The use of paragraphs is adequate.

  3. Cohesive devices linking sentences and paragraphs are used.

  1. Ideas are organised.

  2. The paragraphs could be better distributed.

  3. Some cohesive devices linking sentences and paragraphs are used.

  1. There is a lack of organisation.

  2. Paragraphs are too long or there are not well distributed, or there are no paragraphs at all.

  3. There are no linking devices.

Grammatical accuracy
  1. Very few, irrelevant, or no grammar errors at all.

  2. Good command of grammar: Correct use of the verb to be and the third person.

  1. Some acceptable grammar errors.

  2. Fair command of English grammar: use of the verb to be and third person (with some mistakes).

  1. Serious and numerous grammar mistakes.

  2. Does not use correctly the verb to be and the third person.

Mechanics
  1. Most words are written correctly.

  2. There are only some occasional mistakes.

  1. Some spelling mistakes (3–6).

  2. Some mistakes in basic vocabulary.

  1. There are many spelling mistakes.

  2. Invents words.

Lexical range
  1. Rich and varied vocabulary.

  1. Basic vocabulary, enough to convey the message.

  1. Limited range of vocabulary: some words are in Basque-Spanish.

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Received: 2022-03-18
Accepted: 2022-12-22
Published Online: 2023-01-19
Published in Print: 2024-06-25

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