TY  - JOUR
T1  - One Hand Washes the Other and Both Wash the Face: Individuality versus Collaboration in L2 Writing
AU  - Savaşçı, Merve
AU  - Kaygisiz, Seval
PY  - 2019
DA  - March
DO  - 10.32601/ejal.543789
JF  - Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics
JO  - EJAL
PB  - Ece ZEHİR TOPKAYA
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2149-1135
SP  - 131
EP  - 151
VL  - 5
IS  - 1
LA  - en
AB  - The aim of this pre-experimentalstudy is twofold: (1) to investigate the comparative effectiveness ofindividual, pair, and group writing conditions in L2 writing classes, and (2)to explore students’ perceptions about each of these conditions. Theparticipants were university-level Turkish EFL learners studying in the EnglishPreparatory Program of a state university. The data for investigating theeffectiveness of these writing conditions came from in-class paragraph writingtasks whereas students’ perceptions were investigated through an open-endedquestionnaire and semi-structured focus group interviews. The quantitative datawere analyzed by running descriptive statistics analysis, Wilcoxon signed-ranktest, and the Friedman test, and the qualitative data were content analyzed. Asthe findings indicated, when the participants wrote in groups they outperformedthose who worked individually or in pairs regarding the (a) fluency, (b)accuracy, (c) complexity, (d) length, and (e) overall score of the paragraphs.Besides, perceived advantages and disadvantages of both collaborative writing(i.e., pair and group writing) and individual writing were pointed out by theparticipants. Based on the findings, some pedagogical implications andsuggestions for further research are presented. 
KW  - Collaborative writing
KW  - individual
KW  - group
KW  - pair
KW  - EFL
KW  - writing
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