This article focuses on the question of how the writing skills of prospective international students can be improved with the help of collaborative writing using the etherpad in the study preparation program. How do learners evaluate and assess the benefits of collaborative writing and what difficulties do they encounter? Which learning progress can be made through collaborative writing? These research questions are illuminated by an evaluation of learners' texts in the beginning, the middle and the end of a virtual language course with a focus on integrated tasks from the digital TestDaF. In addition, students fill out a survey with questions on the writing process which supplement the analysis of the written texts. This empirical study is intended to document the learning progress through collaborative writing by means of a small-step didactic model: from the planning and design phase through the joint writing and revision of the text. The article presents a best-practice model for the systematic evaluation and promotion of the process of learning to write academic texts in preparation for university studies. The model can also be transferred to other writing tasks.
Katanneck, S. (2022). Kollaboratives Schreiben in der Studienvorbereitung. Eine empirische Untersuchung zur Förderung der Schreibkompetenz am Beispiel des Etherpad. German as a Foreign Language, 3(22), 88-117. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/236770 (Original work published 2022)