Academic collaborative writing: the use of wikis in a BA program in teaching languages

Abstract

The use of Wikis for the practice of collaborative writing skills at the university level is reported. The analysis of the activity logs and of the produced texts helped to identify that the most frequent kind and level of activity engagement was to add relevant information to the text and to modify it towards a specific structure (Hadjerrouit, 2016); the most used metadiscourse resources types were the interactive followed by the interpersonal ones (Kuteeva, 2011 & Hyland, 2004); the pedagogic strategy of work by Projects, in which the use of the Wiki was implemented, allowed to see its flexible character, to practice collaborative writing skills and to practice critical thinking processes.