期刊名称：International Journal of English and Education
印刷版ISSN：2278-4012
出版年度：2015
卷号：4
期号：4
页码：73
出版社：Brahmaputra Publishing House
摘要：The present study aimed to find the effect of collaborative essay writing through e-mailon the improvement of the writing performance of Iranian EFL learners. 48 participants werechosen from Malayer Azad University and divided into two groups of experimental and controleach consisting of 24 students in the age range of 18 to 25. A pre-test measured the participants’initial performance in writing. The control group attended the class in which they were requiredto write individually, while the students in the experimental group were assigned to write threeparagraph essays collaboratively through email. They were asked to read each others’paragraphs and make comments and corrections. A parallel test was conducted at the end of thestudy to check the effect of the treatment on the students’ final writing performance. Theirparagraphs were scored by using the scoring rubric adapted from Rog (2007). In the controlgroup, the participants were asked to write their paragraphs individually. After analyzing thedata, the obtained results showed that the performance of the subjects in the experimental groupwas significantly better than that of the control group, supporting the argument that if learnersget involved in collaborative writing through e-mail, their performance would improve.
关键词：collaboration; CALL; social learning; writing; team work
