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Exploring College English Language Learners’ Social Knowledge Construction and Socio-Emotional Interactions During Computer-Supported Collaborative Writing Activities

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Students’ social knowledge construction and socio-emotional interactions in computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) are shaped by one another and work together to affect the group’s learning performance. However, few studies have combined both social knowledge construction and socio-emotional interactions and examined how they contribute to improved learning performance. This study examines the dynamics of students’ social knowledge construction and socio-emotional interactions in the context of computer-supported collaborative writing and compares six high- and six low-performing groups. Quantitative content analysis and sequential analysis were used to reveal the characteristics of groups’ behaviour frequencies and patterns. The high-performing groups demonstrated more systematic and meaningful social knowledge construction and socio-emotional interaction patterns, while the low-performing groups only engaged in single repeated behaviours. It is worth noting that memes played different roles in the two groups.

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This paper was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Numbers 61877003), Humanities and Social Sciences Fund of Chinese Ministry of Education (Grant Numbers 18YJC740084), and the International Joint Research Project of Faculty of Education of Beijing Normal University.

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  2. Faculty of Education, National Engineering Laboratory for Cyberlearning and Intelligent Technology, Beijing, China

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  3. Department of Foreign Languages, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China

    You Su

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Tao, Y., Zhang, M., Su, Y. et al. Exploring College English Language Learners’ Social Knowledge Construction and Socio-Emotional Interactions During Computer-Supported Collaborative Writing Activities. Asia-Pacific Edu Res 31, 613–622 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40299-021-00612-7

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