What Goes On When Tertiary Students Are Engaged In An Online Academic Writing Course?
Chan, Swee Heng, and Han, Ai Leen, (2005) What Goes On When Tertiary Students Are Engaged In An Online Academic Writing Course? GEMA Online Journal of Language Studies, 5 (2). 14p.. ISSN 1675-8021 Full text not available from this repository. Official URL: http://www.fpbahasa.ukm.my/linguistics/Gema/page1_14.pdf AffiliationsUniversiti Putra Malaysia United Overseas Bank Malaysia AbstractIn this study, the learning environment is web-based and the learning situation is related to a course in research writing put together from web-based resources for a group of ESL tertiary students. The challenge in this study is to address the question: How do students decode learning material (in an online writing course) and do they use the various cognitive, metacognitive and socio-affective strategies to learn, retain and recall the new information and integrate it with prior knowledge? Specifically, the study raised the following questions: 1. What are the metacognitive and socio-affective strategies used by Malaysian students in an online course on academic writing?
2. What are the perceptions among students about the online training course? The study adopts both quantitative and qualitative means to obtain the data. It is a mixed design. The quantitative data allows predetermined attributes to be evaluated and synthesized while an ethnographic design allows the investigation to be set in an authentic and naturalistic environment. The naturalistic setting entails an attitude of detachment that permits the researcher to observe the conduct of self and those under observation to understand the mechanisms of social processes, and to account for the related processes. The mix method design provides a holistic approach in which one method enhances the other in its contribution to salience of data. Repository Staff Only: item control page
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