The Role of Synchronous and Asynchronous Multimodal Scaffolding in Learners’ Writing Complexity Improvement

  • سال انتشار: 1402
  • محل انتشار: مجله آموزش و یادگیری زبان انگلیسی، دوره: 15، شماره: 31
  • کد COI اختصاصی: JR_ELT-15-31_010
  • زبان مقاله: انگلیسی
  • تعداد مشاهده: 164
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نویسندگان

Giti Mousapour Negari

Department of English Language and Literature, University of Sistan and Baluchestan, Iran.

Maryam Zeynali

Department of English Language and Literature, University of Sistan and Baluchestan, Iran.

چکیده

Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) modes can ease scaffolding through multimodality in collaborative writing tasks. However, there is an ongoing debate regarding synchronous and asynchronous CMC environments. Additionally, there are conflicting results regarding gender’s pedagogical beliefs in CMC applications. The current study aimed to explore if there is a difference between synchronous and asynchronous multimodal scaffolding on the freewriting complexity of EFL learners. Besides, genders’ perceptions about applying multimodal scaffolding were compared. Participants were ۸۴ EFL learners who randomly assigned into three groups. For the pre-test, a picture, podcast, and movie were shared, and the participants were asked to complete their freewriting tasks individually within the allocated time. For treatment, one experimental group was scaffolded in a synchronous environment by sending messages on WhatsApp, and the other experimental group experienced asynchronous scaffolding via email. The results indicated that multimodal scaffolding is beneficial. However, no significant difference was found between the writing complexity of synchronous and asynchronous groups. Furthermore, a significant difference between males’ and females’ tendency to use multimodal scaffolding was uncovered. The findings highlighted the role synchronous and asynchronous multimodal scaffolding can play in collaborative writing tasks

کلیدواژه ها

Asynchronous, gender, Multimodality, Scaffolding, Synchronous, Writing complexity

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