文章基本信息

标题：Cooperative Writing through Dictogloss: An Investigation Regarding Accuracy and Complexity
本地全文：下载
作者：Massoud Yaghoubi-Notash ; Farzaneh Abbasi Shahir
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：3
页码：275
出版社：Brahmaputra Publishing House
摘要：Despite rich potentials for research, theorizing and practice, cooperative learning hasnot received a due acknowledgement in education and particularly in ESL/EFL. Building uponhumanistic notions such as social community, CL lays emphasis on group potentials and workingtowards a common goal. This study, against the background of studies in literature, comparedindividualistic and cooperative instructional approaches to writing accuracy and complexityelicited through dictogloss. Participants in the study were 32 male and female EFL learnerstaking spoken English courses. The writing tasks were also selected through a rating process bythe teachers and the students themselves from among topics mostly contained in their textbooks.Accuracy and complexity were operationalized as the percentage of error-free sentences, andthe percentage of error-free sentences, respectively. Having met the assumptions, theIndependent-Samples T-test was employed to compare the means of accuracy and complexitydata across the two groups. Findings indicated a significantly higher accuracy for cooperativegroup, but complexity did not vary as a matter of cooperative engagement in dictogloss-elicitedwriting. Implications are discussed.
关键词：cooperative learning; dictogloss; accuracy; complexity