An Action Research Project to Explore the Effects of Collaborative Learning on Students' Writing Quality and Their Conceptions of Writing de Lam, Wing-Sze Amy

An Action Research Project to Explore the Effects of Collaborative Learning on Students' Writing Quality and Their Conceptions of Writing

Lam, Wing-Sze Amy

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This dissertation, "An Action Research Project to Explore the Effects of Collaborative Learning on Students' Writing Quality and Their Conceptions of Writing" by Wing-sze, Amy, Lam, 林泳施, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author.
Abstract:
Abstract This study was an action research which examined the effects of collaborative learning on the English writing quality and conceptions of writing of a group secondary six students in Hong Kong. Nineteen students were invited to join the study. After the pre-treatment questionnaire and the production of the first essay, students were involved in a range of collaborative learning activities which included brainstorming activities, peer editing and peer response for the second and the third essays. Just before the production of the second individual essay, four students were selected as the focus subjects for classroom observation, after-treatment researcher-student interview and essay analysis. The four students were selected when they attended all the 10 lessons for the first two weeks of the research project, belonged to the same gender and got the same grade in the HKCEE. The only difference among them was their personalities, relatively more active and more passive in normal lesson participation. The four selected students were all female and got grade E in the Hong Kong Certificate of Education Examinations Syllabus B for English Language. Statistical analysis demonstrated that the research project was effective in improving students' writing quality as well as enhancing their conceptions of writing. Qualitative analysis showed that students enjoyed working in collaborative groups for writing because they had more opportunities to interact with their peers in a more intimate level. The four selected students indicated the idea that they had become a better writer after participating in the research project. They expressed that the peer editing and the peer responses sessions were practical and valuable because they got insightful and inspiriting ideas that they had never thought about and the activities offered chances for them to practise giving constructive feedback to their peers. These experiences greatly improved their writing quality and enhanced their conceptions of writing. Both the qualitative and quantitative data supported that collaborative learning improved students' writing quality and enhanced students' conceptions of writing for the students who participated in this research project.

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DOI: 10.5353/th_b3870925
Subjects:
Peer-group tutoring of students - China - Hong Kong
English language - Composition and exercises - Study and teaching (Secondary) - China - Hong Kong

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