Practice 7

1. Students write about the writing process, discuss electronically things they have read, share their own work with the others and compose compositions together.

• A. collect

• B. revise

• C. write

2. One class met one or two times a week in a computer-networked classroom where virtually all class discussion was carried out electronically.

• A. almost

• B. barely

• C. actually

3. An analysis of the transcripts of large group discussions, one from each class, showed strong differences in participation patterns.

• A. printed copies

• B. conducted studies

• C : experiments

4. Whereas only 50% of the students spoke up even once during the oral discussion, 100% of the students participated in the electronic discussion.

• A. supported

• B. joined in

• C. were interested in

5. Studies of native speaker composition classes have also shown similar advantages for computer-networked writing instruction, particularly for students who come into a course less skilled or confident about their writing.

• A. feeling full trust

• B. feeling worried

• C. feeling interested

6.

The use of electronic discussion helps overcome the students' fear of expressing their ideas in writing.

• YES

• NO

• NOT GIVEN

7.

Students hate their compositions to be corrected by the teachers.

• YES

• NO

• NOT GIVEN

8.

Janice Cook taught her classes online for years and did not want to go back to the traditional writing instruction.

• YES

• NO

• NOT GIVEN

9.

The two classes Pratt and Sullivan compared in their study were both taught online with the same syllabus.

• YES

• NO

• NOT GIVEN

10.

In the class conducted in a traditional way in Pratt and Sullivan's study, half of the students remained silent.

• YES

• NO

• NOT GIVEN