Computer Mediation in Collaborative Writing Activities for Young Children

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of the present study was to examine the effects of computer mediation on the interaction patterns of young children in collaborative writing activities. Forty two five-year-old children were encouraged to write the following three tasks in pairs, the Kid pix program, word processing, and the hand writing activity. The interaction patterns differed according to the type of tasks and the gender of dyads. The Kid pix program engendered collaborative interaction in all gender types of dyads, and the word processing activity stimulated the contentious interaction of male gender dyads. In the hand writing activity, all genders of dyads showed parallel behavior without any interaction. These results suggest that computers stimulate more frequent interaction between children compared to non-computer activities. Children’s interaction time was assessed to investigate the interest in writing with a computer in a collaborative activity. It was found that paired children spent more of their time working on the Kid pix program compared to other activities.

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