Self-regulation in Foreign Language Students’ Collaborative Discourse for Academic Writing: An Explorative Study on Epistemic Network Analysis
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Computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) settings for academic writing have become a staple in foreign language classrooms in higher education. These settings allow learners to discuss their output, assist others and dialogically assess their learning progress. To successfully do so, however, learners need to be able to effectively self-regulate their learning process. The multiple contingencies of self-regulated learning (SRL) in online collaborative writing settings have hitherto received limited attention in research. Recent advances in learning analytics and quantitative ethnography, nevertheless, offer new opportunities to analyse learner discourse and reveal previously underexplored aspects of SRL. Through the use of epistemic network analysis (ENA), this study examines structural patterns in students’ use of SRL strategies and meta-strategies, and models their co-occurrence. Data were collected from a Facebook group integrated into an academic writing course for first-year foreign language majors of English (N = 123). The results illustrate how students engage in cognitive and meta-cognitive discourse, and show that other strategies and meta-strategies in the network mainly occur in isolation. The use of ENA, in addition, reveals the different contingencies in the SRL process over time. This study contributes to the fields of quantitative ethnography, learning analytics and SRL by: 1. Showing how ENA can add to our understanding of the SRL process, and 2. by discussing which self-regulatory strategies and meta-strategies are predominantly used in CSCL settings for academic writing, which ones deserve additional attention when integrating CSCL settings in this context, and what educational interventions can be designed as support.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Advances in Quantitative Ethnography - 4th International Conference, ICQE 2022, Proceedings |
Editors | Crina Damşa, Amanda Barany |
Number of pages | 16 |
Publisher | Springer |
Publication date | 2023 |
Pages | 254-269 |
ISBN (Print) | 9783031317255 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2023 |
Event | 4th International Conference on Quantitative Ethnography, ICQE 2022 - Copenhagen, Denmark Duration: 15 Oct 2022 → 19 Oct 2022 |
Conference
Conference | 4th International Conference on Quantitative Ethnography, ICQE 2022 |
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Land | Denmark |
By | Copenhagen |
Periode | 15/10/2022 → 19/10/2022 |
Series | Communications in Computer and Information Science |
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Volume | 1785 CCIS |
ISSN | 1865-0929 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
- Academic writing, CSCL, Epistemic Network Analysis, Foreign language learning, Learning Analytics, Self-regulated learning
Research areas
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