Towards a reading and text production practice with FL learners: a collaborative text construction with FL groups of French, English, and Spanish in the Web via the EquiText

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Galli, J.A., Almeida, L.O.d., Guedes, P.C. & Costa, J.S. (2001). Towards a reading and text production practice with FL learners: a collaborative text construction with FL groups of French, English, and Spanish in the Web via the EquiText. In J. Price et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2001 (pp. 2193-2198). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
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Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference (SITE) 2001
Norfolk, VA
2001
ISBN 1-880094-41-X
  Jerry Price, Dee Anna Willis, Niki Davis & Jerry Willis
AACE

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Joice Armani Galli, Lara Oleques de Almeida, Paulo Coimbra Guedes, Janete Sander Costa, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Abstract

An FL pedagogy, integrating reading and writing skills in foreign language teaching, associated with Web resources, may contribute to the development of those skills while producing collective texts. The EquiText, a collaborative writing tool, allows for innovations in text production either through teamwork or individually, mostly asynchronously. The readers/writers' participation in text construction may promote virtual interlocutions among the writers (FL learners), and their readers (the lecturer, the other fellow writers, researchers/observers). Another perspective of the current sole text reader, writer and evaluator is suggested. We propose to analyze the usefulness of the Equitext in significant written discourse as a result of the interactions in the tool. Three foreign language productions sustain our assumptions: texts produced by intermediate Brazilian college learners of French, English and Spanish as FLs, either individually, in paper, or in teams, using the EquiText, with significant results.

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