Process Writing: an online collaborative writing environment for primary school students

Abstract

This paper aims to discuss the design of an online collaborative writing platform for primary school students. With minimal face-to-face input from teachers, students went through process writing (a learner -centric learning approach with brainstorming, drafting, revising and publishing st ages), and created their own storybooks with visual support, online scaffolds and communicative features using this online platform . Initial findings suggest that this writing platform can be an effective app roach to improve students ’ motivation towards English learning and w riting skills. This paper also proposes that the Process Writing model can be used to facilitate students ’ writing of different genres.