Exploring student interaction during collaborative prewriting discussions and its relationship to L2 writing

Journal of Second Language Writing

Volumn 27, Issue , 2015, Pages 84-104

  Neumann, Heike ^a   McDonough, Kim ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Group work; Prewriting tasks; Second language interaction; Second language writing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939963355     PISSN: 10603743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jslw.2014.09.009     Document Type: Article

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