Analysing Students' Perspectives on a Collaborative Class Diary

This dissertation aims at testing the use of a tool which was specially designed for this study but that can be used in a wide range of learning contexts: the collaborative class diary. The collaborative class diary is a space for learners and teachers to write down important information and new ide...

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Autor: Furriols Vilardell, Maria
Tipo de recurso: tesis de maestría
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:249556
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/249556
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Collaborative class diary
Universal design for learning
Collaborative learning
Learner autonomy
Scaffolding
Diari d'aula col·laboratiu
Disseny universal per a l'aprenentatge
Aprenentatge col·laboratiu
Autonomia de l'alumne
Teoria de la bastida
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Sumario:This dissertation aims at testing the use of a tool which was specially designed for this study but that can be used in a wide range of learning contexts: the collaborative class diary. The collaborative class diary is a space for learners and teachers to write down important information and new ideas at the end of each lesson using Google Jamboard. In the teaching unit presented in this dissertation, the collective class diary was relevant since it provided students with all the language and content needed to complete the final task. This tool has been analysed from the students' perspective by assessing its use, the students' opinion on the tool and the students' awareness of three relevant features: scaffolding, collaboration and learner autonomy. To do so, data has been gathered from two groups of EFL learners in a Catalan public high school. This work is consistent with previous studies that also determine a positive effect of peer-peer scaffolding.