An Exploratory Study on the Role of L2 Collaborative Writing on Learners’ Subsequent Individually Composed Texts

While research into the potential benefits of second or foreign language (L2 or FL) collaborative writing for jointly written texts has proliferated in the last few decades, it remains unclear whether texts that learners compose individually after such activities demonstrate improved quality, accuracy, fluency, and complexity. This study compares individually written texts produced by students on post-tests in two parallel classes (one exposed...