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Employing a Structured Interface to Advance Primary Students' Communicative Competence in a Text-Based Computer Mediated Environment
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Chiu, Chiung-Hui; Wu, Chiu-Yi; Hsieh, Sheng-Jieh; Cheng, Hsiao-Wei; Huang, Chung-Kai – Computers & Education, 2013
This study investigated whether a structured communication interface fosters primary students' communicative competence in a synchronous typewritten computer-mediated collaborative learning environment. The structured interface provided a set of predetermined utterance patterns for elementary students to use or imitate to develop communicative…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Elementary School Students, Concept Mapping, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Group Differences in Computer Supported Collaborative Learning: Evidence from Patterns of Taiwanese Students' Online Communication
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Chiu, Chiung-Hui; Hsiao, Hsieh-Fen – Computers & Education, 2010
This study explored the differences among online elementary school student groups based on their communication features. Two hundred and ninety-one Taiwanese students, ranging in age from 11 to 12 years old, participated in this study. The students were randomly arranged within-class into three-member groups. Each group was asked to use a…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Differences, Group Dynamics, Multivariate Analysis