Open AccessONLINE COLLABORATIVE WRITTEN ACTIVITIES IN L2 FOR THE TEACHING OF LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
Author(s) -
Ioanna Tyrou
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
european journal of foreign language teaching
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2537-1754
DOI - 10.46827/ejfl.v5i4.3744
Subject(s) - affordance , creativity , foreign language , psychology , collaborative writing , teamwork , variety (cybernetics) , mathematics education , pedagogy , computer science , political science , social psychology , law , cognitive psychology , artificial intelligence
This study investigates the potential affordances of new technologies and the opportunities offered by wikis in facilitating L2 collaborative writing in university settings for the teaching of culture. Participants were 92 undergraduate students of Italian as foreign language in the department of Italian Language and Literature of the university of Athens. They attended and participated in a laboratory course of alternative culture environments and online activities in foreign language. A task-based wiki environment managed to involve the students in a variety of online activities culturally meaningful and authentic educational activities. An initial and a final questionnaire were selected and analysed by ANOVA and POST HOC TEST (Tukey) confirming that online collaborative wikis tools are able to promote teamwork, can increase knowledge of culture and foreign language and can create positive conditions for cultivating creativity and collaborative, written expression.
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