Supporting students improve their academic writing through online collaboration
This thesis report is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Arts in Teaching to Speakers of Other Languages, 2015.
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10361-46452019-09-30T04:25:09Z Supporting students improve their academic writing through online collaboration Karim, Mohammad Rejaul Rahman, Dr. Sayeedur BRAC Institutes of Languages Academic writing Asynchronous Collaboration Residential semester Scaffold Self-selected goals Self-determination Synchronous Technological divide Topic sentence Virtual learning environment Zone of proximal development This thesis report is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Arts in Teaching to Speakers of Other Languages, 2015. Cataloged from PDF version of Internship report. Includes bibliographical references (page 40-43). This study examines how students can be supported online with their writing while they are outside classroom. Coming from different backgrounds and media of study, many of the undergraduate students of BRAC University face difficulties while writing in English which results in poor grades at the end of the semester. In this research, 25 undergraduate students from six different departments were selected based on a diagnostic test taken in the beginning of the semester. They all were added on three online groups (Wiki, blog and FB) where they have practiced, in addition to the class works, more on basics of academic writing so that they get additional support to bridge up the existing learning gap with their other classmates. Results have shown that students using the online groups have gotten advantages out of the activities. They also have mentioned that they were benefitted by the comments by their peers, though, according to them, a teacher must be monitoring the whole system to optimize the outcome and increase students’ participation. This type of research can be replicated in many other institutions provided they have all required facilities in place. Through this study, English language teaching and learning takes a new form and hundreds of students learn English language with supports from their teacher and peers online. Mohammad Rejaul Karim M. in TESOL 2015-11-25T08:10:45Z 2015-11-25T08:10:45Z 2015 2015-04-30 Thesis ID 13177004 http://hdl.handle.net/10361/4645 en BRAC University thesis are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. 43 pages application/pdf BRAC University |
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