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L2 Collaborative Writing in Diverse Learning Contexts
Edited by Mimi Li and Meixiu Zhang
[Language Learning & Language Teaching 59] 2023
► pp. 109–129

Chapter 5
Examining the role of peer collaborative feedback processing and task repetition in task-based L2 writing

| University of California Santa Cruz

Grounded in research on task-based and collaborative L2 writing, this quasi-experimental study examined the impact of collaborative processing of instructor feedback during the revision process. Forty-six intermediate learners of German in two intact classes at a U.S. university completed two written summary tasks, producing a draft and a revision for each, following feedback from the instructor in-between. The two groups processed this feedback individually and collaboratively, in a counterbalanced design. All texts were analyzed for syntactic complexity, accuracy, fluency, and lexical sophistication (i.e., lexical accuracy, choice, richness). The results indicate that processing the instructor’s feedback collaboratively with a peer primarily improved the lexical domain, whereas the revision process itself led to improvements on all linguistic features in diverse ways. The results offer implications for research, methodology and pedagogy.

Keywords: collaborative L2 writing, task-based L2 writing, collaborative feedback processing, revisions
Article outline
  • Introduction
  • Review of relevant research
    • Collaborative and task-based L2 writing
    • Making the case for peer collaboration in processing instructor feedback
    • Task complexity and L2 writing
  • The present study
    • Participants and instructional setting
    • Operationalizing key concepts
    • Procedures
    • Data analyses
    • Statistical analyses
  • Results
    • Research question 1: Collaboratively and individually processed feedback
    • Research question 2: Task-repetition and collaborative versus individual feedback processing
  • Discussion
    • Research question 1: Collaboratively and individually processed feedback
    • Research question 2: Task-repetition and collaborative versus individual feedback processing
  • Conclusions
  • Acknowledgement
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 17 August 2023
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https://doi.org/10.1075/lllt.59.05abr
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