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25.06.2020
Exploring the role of EFL learners’ online self-regulation profiles in their social regulation of learning in wiki-supported collaborative reading activities
verfasst von:
Yanyan Li, Xiaoshan Li, You Su, Yu Peng, Hening Hu
Previous research indicated that the individual skills that learners bring to the group is critical to the social regulation process in computer-supported collaborative learning activities. However, few studies have explored how students’ self-regulation capacity is related to the occurrence of the social regulation strategies in the learning group. Situated in a wiki-supported collaborative reading situation, this study explored the roles of English language learners’ online self-regulation profiles in their use of social regulation strategies in the collaboration process. The participants of this study were 95 Chinese college students who studied English as a foreign language. The Online Self-regulated English Learning Questionnaire was used to measure the students’ self-regulation strategies, based on which latent profile analysis was adopted to identify the students with similar patterns of self-regulation variables. Content analysis of students’ discussion messages was conducted to analyze their social regulation strategies in collaborative learning, focusing on regulation types (i.e., co-regulation and socially shared regulation) and regulation foci (i.e., task, emotion, and organization). This study identified two distinctive types of online self-regulation profiles, namely, reflection-oriented competent profile and average profile. The results show that, in terms of the types of social regulation, individual students belonging to the reflection-oriented competent profile tended to be more active in initiating and carrying out socially shared regulation strategies. Regarding the social regulation foci, it was found that the learners of reflection-oriented competent profile demonstrated significantly more positive social–emotional regulation strategies. The findings suggest that teachers need to consider students’ online self-regulation profiles when dividing them into small groups to carry out wiki-supported collaborative learning activities.
Exploring the role of EFL learners’ online self-regulation profiles in their social regulation of learning in wiki-supported collaborative reading activities