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16 - Collaborative Learning

from Part IV - Social Aspects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 June 2025

By
Lara Ducate  and
Nike Arnold
Edited by
Glenn Stockwell  and
Yijen Wang
Glenn Stockwell
Affiliation:
Waseda University, Japan
Yijen Wang
Affiliation:
Waseda University, Japan
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This chapter focuses on digital collaboration when learning an additional language (L2), a specific type of learner–learner interaction. In CALL contexts, collaboration has almost exclusively been researched in connection with writing, which will be the focus of this chapter. The chapter first provides a definition of collaboration versus cooperation and then a literature review of digital collaboration, mainly in writing contexts. We conclude with a list of strategies for promoting collaboration and suggestions for future collaboration contexts and research.

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collaborationwritingcooperationintersubjectivityequalitymutualitywikistask designgenrenegotiation
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The Cambridge Handbook of Technology in Language Teaching and Learning , pp. 263 - 280
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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Further Reading

This article started looking at synchronous interactions between collaborators and how learners approached the writing task in addition to examining the writing products.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to L2 writing pedagogy and covers issues of assessment, task and course design, feedback, and technology.

This study documented examples where learners paid more attention to the meanings within the text than forms in a group-based wiki writing task.

This is the first article where the terms mutuality and equality are used to describe patterns of interaction during collaborative work.

Elola, I., & Oskoz, A. (2010). Collaborative writing: Fostering foreign language and writing conventions development. Language Learning & Technology, 14(3), 51–71.Google Scholar
Hyland, K. (2019). Second language writing (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Kessler, G., & Bikowski, D. (2010). Developing collaborative autonomous learning abilities in computer mediated language learning: Attention to meaning among students in wiki space. Computer Assisted Language Learning, 23(1), 41–58. https://doi.org/10.1080/09588220903467335CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Storch, N. (2002). Patterns of interaction in ESL pair work. Language Learning, 52(1), 119–158. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9922.00179CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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