The emergence and influence of group leaders in web-based collaborative writing: self-reported accounts of EFL learners

Web-based collaborative writing (CW) has been widely used in the field of English as a foreign language (EFL) during the last decade. Previous studies have mainly focused on how online platforms have facilitated the CW process for EFL learners, how web-based CW has shown progress in EFL learners’ writing development, and how EFL learners in groups interact with one another during web-based CW. However, there are limited studies on web-based CW...