Using a wiki to scaffold primary-school students' collaborative writing

Educational Technology and Society

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 43-54

  Woo, Matsuko ^a   Chu, Samuel ^a   Ho, Andrew ^a   Li, Xuanxi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Affordances; Collaborative writing; L2 writing; Primary school; Scaffolding; Wikis

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952832219     PISSN: 11763647     EISSN: 14364522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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