Young language learners' collaborative learning and social interaction as a motivational aspect of the iPad

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mona Alhinty
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Collaborative Learning ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Motivational Aspect

scholarly journals Collaborative Learning through Literature Circles in EFL

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 96
Author(s):  
Osman Bedel
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Collaborative Learning ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
English Language ◽  
Literature Circles ◽  
Balanced Literacy ◽  
Approach To Learning ◽  
Foreign Language Learners

This paper discusses how the introduction of ‘literature circles’ have led to the stimulation of social interaction among language learners. These social interactions happen because members of the literary circles are able to read and understand a book of choice, and assign participating student members their responsibility through structured time and assessment. They are primarily guided by students’ insights and questions and they apply each other's learning, reading, writing, and speaking skills, making this approach to learning flexible and fluid, while initiating collaborative social interaction at the same time. This collaborative learning and social interactions have been applied in classrooms of ‘English as a Foreign Language’ learners. This paper looks into the need for literature circles that promote collaborative learning in the EFL classroom, in order to attain higher levels of language and literary skills. The research also shows that literature circles as reader-response centric have come to constitute a part of a balanced literacy program in learning foreign language in general and the English language in particular.

Computer Mediated Technology as Tools for Social Interaction and Educational Processes

2008 ◽  
pp. 719-732
Author(s):  
Karen Rohrbauck Stout
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Collaborative Learning ◽  
Virtual Teams ◽  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Interaction Space ◽  
Social World ◽  
Educational Processes ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
The Social ◽  
Enhance Student Learning

Computer mediated technologies (or CMTs) enhance educational processes and are tools that have particular implications for learning and interacting in virtual teams. To better understand how educational tools may be implemented to enhance student learning in virtual teams, the author addresses Wartofsky’s (1979) explication of tools as cultural artifacts. Distinctions about primary, secondary, and tertiary tools provide a framework to analyze implementations of educational CMT research. Implications of these tools on virtual team’s cognitive skills and collaborative learning are explored. Tertiary tools are explored in particular, as they may provide virtual teams with shared interaction space and alternative representations of the social world. The author provides examples of CMT implementation and suggestions for technological and pedagogical advancements.

A Critical Inquiry into Web-Mediated Collaborative Learning

2000 ◽  
pp. 307-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dubravka Cecez-Kecmanovic ◽  
Carolyn Webb
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Collaborative Learning ◽  
Field Study ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Communicative Action ◽  
Interaction Process ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Communicative Practices

This chapter presents a critical approach to collaborative learning viewed as a social interaction process. Based on Habermas’ theory of communicative action, the chapter proposes a communicative model of collaborative learning with the aim to enhance understanding of communicative practices in Web-mediated collaborative learning situations and to provide a methodological instrument for the analysis of concrete learning processes. Drawing on the empirical data from a field study the chapter illustrates how the communicative model of collaborative learning can be applied to analyse not only what linguistic interactions among students mean but also what they produce in a particular learning situation. The chapter concludes by summarising possible implications of this critical perspective and the communicative model of collaborative learning on both practical pedagogy and empirical research in Web-mediated environments.

Computer Mediated Technology as Tools for Social Interaction and Educational Processes

2006 ◽  
pp. 246-267
Author(s):  
Karen R. Stout
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Collaborative Learning ◽  
Virtual Teams ◽  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Interaction Space ◽  
Social World ◽  
Educational Processes ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
The Social ◽  
Enhance Student Learning

Computer mediated technologies (or CMTs) enhance educational processes and are tools that have particular implications for learning and interacting in virtual teams. To better understand how educational tools may be implemented to enhance student learning in virtual teams, the author addresses Wartofsky’s (1979) explication of tools as cultural artifacts. Distinctions about primary, secondary, and tertiary tools provide a framework to analyze implementations of educational CMT research. Implications of these tools on virtual team’s cognitive skills and collaborative learning are explored. Tertiary tools are explored in particular, as they may provide virtual teams with shared interaction space and alternative representations of the social world. The author provides examples of CMT implementation and suggestions for technological and pedagogical advancements.

Study on Students’ Communication and Interaction in Collaborative Learning Processes with Web-based Social Tools

2014 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leow Fui Theng ◽  
Neo Mai ◽  
Chang Yoong Choon
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Collaborative Learning ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Communication Process ◽  
Rapid Progression ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Communicative Acts ◽  
The Social

The rapid progression of ICT has influenced the social change and broadened the horizon of innovative learning which further enabled the web-based collaborative learning. Studies show that the use of web-based social tools is able to expand the social interaction and engagement among the students. In fact, many learning approaches in today’s higher education context have embedded collaborative learning activities. Therefore, it is important to investigate the student communicative acts and social interaction in the online communication process for sustaining and better supporting web-based collaborative learning. This study presents students’ feedback and their communicative acts in the process of collaborating on a multimedia project. Communicative Model of Collaborative Learning (CMCL) was used to analyze these inputs which obtained from open-ended questions, student interviews and students’ posting in social networking sites. The results showed that the CMCL was a useful tool for assessing the students’ social interaction and communicative acts in this learning approach. The outcomes of this study show that the use of CMCL is effective to analyze the student communication and interaction in web-based collaborative learning environments with more perspectives and reveal the impacts on student learning experience and attitudes.  

scholarly journals Convergences of Joint, Positive Interactions and Regulation in Collaborative Learning

2019 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaana Isohätälä ◽  
Piia Näykki ◽  
Sanna Järvelä
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Collaborative Learning ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Small Groups ◽  
Environmental Science ◽  
Positive Interactions ◽  
Learning Progress

This qualitative study explores the convergences of small groups’ joint, positive interactions and regulation in social interaction during collaborative learning. We analyzed the video-recorded social interactions of five groups of student teachers during environmental science tasks. We examined the frequency and functions of the situations in which joint participation and positive socioemotional interaction converged with regulation (planning, monitoring, and evaluating) in social interaction. The results show that when groups planned, monitored, or evaluated their learning, they participated more jointly in social interaction and showed more socioemotional support than in interactions with no observed regulation. The situations in which these elements converged served three functions: establishing agreement, responding to challenges or mistakes, and discussing strengths and weaknesses. The results suggest that the convergences of joint, positive interactions and regulation in social interaction can serve a function that is meaningful for collaborative learning progress.

The use of online annotations in reading instruction and its impact on students’ reading progress and processes

ReCALL ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hui-Chin Yeh ◽  
Hsiu-Ting Hung ◽  
Yu-Hsin Chiang
Keyword(s):  
English Language Learners ◽  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Collaborative Learning ◽  
Reading Instruction ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
English Language ◽  
Reciprocal Teaching ◽  
Reading Processes ◽  
Collaborative Learning Environment ◽  
Support Students

AbstractStudies suggest that the incorporation of online annotations in reading instruction can improve students’ reading comprehension. However, little research has addressed how students use online annotations in their reading processes and how such use may lead to their improvement. This study thus adopted Reciprocal Teaching (RT) as an instructional framework to support students’ reading comprehension progress and processes, facilitated by the use of online annotations. A total of 54 English language learners at a university were recruited to read with online annotations based on the RT procedure, namely predicting, clarifying, questioning, and summarizing. The data collected included the students’ scores on pre- and post-tests and their participation records in a collaborative learning environment. The results reveal that the students enhanced their reading comprehension after the intervention. Their reading processes were also analyzed, and the major differences between the groups making more and less progress were identified. Those who made more progress not only frequently reviewed their previously generated predictions, clarifications, questions, and summaries but also actively provided feedback to their peers in a reciprocal manner. Pedagogical implications and recommendations are discussed.

scholarly journals Towards a communicative model of collaborative web-mediated learning

2000 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dubravka Cecez-Kecmanovic ◽  
Carolyn Webb
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Collaborative Learning ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Interaction Process ◽  
Mediated Learning

<span>This paper reports research investigating web-mediated collaborative learning as a social interaction process from a critical theory perspective. A communicative model of collaborative learning is proposed to help instructors analyse and improve the practice of collaborative learning. The model can also be used as a methodological instrument for inquiry into web-mediated collaborative learning.</span>

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