A Study of an Online Collaborative Learning Course to Correct Colloquial Writing in Students’ Essays

Abstract

We implemented a lesson design to improve student’s colloquial languages through online collaborative learning. We first assigned a report task to assess students’ ability to notice and point out colloquial language in each other’s sentences during group discussions. The students discussed each other’s reports in groups and gave feedback. After receiving the feedback, the authors revised their reports and resubmitted them. For the verification, we analyzed the tendency of the students’ remarks and how they noticed and commented on the colloquial language from the reports and remarks data accumulated in the groupware prepared for the online class practice and the Zoom-recorded video. As a result, the number of colloquial languages after re-submission decreased by 18.7%, and 116 corrections (10.2%) were confirmed without being pointed out by others. It was found that cooperative learning resulted in students improving their own reports in addition to pointing out to others. In addition, we identified 37 ambiguous colloquial languages that required contextual judgment. In this study, we confirmed that it is possible to discuss in an online group while sharing other people’s sentences and that the number of colloquial languages decreased.