Promoting collaborative writing through wikis: a new approach for advancing innovative and active learning in an ESP context

Computer Assisted Language Learning

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 499-512

  Wang, Yu Chun ^a  

^a NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

collaborative writing; ESP; peer to peer learning; web based instruction; wikis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84946489514     PISSN: 09588221     EISSN: 17443210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09588221.2014.881386     Document Type: Article

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