Exploring student interaction during collaborative prewriting discussions and its relationship to L2 writing

In second language (L2) writing classrooms, prewriting discussions are one of the most commonly used collaborative activities (Fernández Dobao, 2012, Storch, 2005), yet there has been little research about their relationship to students’ written texts. Recent L2 writing research has examined the textual features of co-constructed texts (e.g., Elola and Oskoz, 2010, Kuiken and Vedder, 2002, Storch and Wigglesworth, 2007), whereas the pretask...