This study aimed to reveal the effect of using Wiki & Google Classroom on the achievement of female art teachers in drawing and designing training courses in Saudi Arabia. The study sample consisted of 49 female art teachers chosen through a purposive method from Saudi Arabia. They were randomly distributed into two experimental groups: the…

Wikis have been increasingly integrated into English-writing teaching and have served as one of the Web's most crucial social-networking tools, improving the writing of EFL learners worldwide. The purpose of this study has been to examine the positive effects of wiki-mediated collaborative writing and peer feedback on the grammatical and lexical…

This study explores its participants' task-based linear wiki-afforded collaborative writing experiences as well as their perceptions of these experiences. Its pre-task survey establishes the preparedness for collaboration of its participants, nine Saudi female TESOL graduate students working in three groups. Further, its mock writing task draws…

This paper focuses on how teachers mediate wiki collaborative writing activities, and the impact of their mediations on students' collaboration. It is based on a study conducted with three English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers and their students (aged 17-18 years) at two government-funded girls' high schools in Kuwait. The selected groups…

Internet users worldwide turn to Wikipedia, the web-based, open-content encyclopedia, for basic information on all subjects. There is much to concern an academic audience in the encyclopedia's prominence: bases for evidence are different from those used by scholars; no expertise is required to edit an article; the site is a target for…

The potential of wikis for learning has recently begun to capture the attention of English as a second/foreign language (ESL/EFL) research. While students' collaboration, attention to form, and perceptions of wikis in document mode have been widely addressed in previous research, the educational value of wikis used in thread mode, as discussion…