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Computers in Education | 2009

International on-line reciprocal peer tutoring to promote modern language development in primary schools

Allen Thurston; David Duran; Erika Cunningham; Sílvia Blanch; Keith Topping

The paper reports data from an on-line peer tutoring project. In the project 78, 9-12-year-old students from Scotland and Catalonia peer tutored each other in English and Spanish via a managed on-line environment. Significant gains in first language (Catalonian pupils) modern language (Scottish pupils) and attitudes towards modern languages (both Catalonian and Scottish pupils) were reported for the experimental group as compared to the control group. Results indicated that pupils tutored each other in using Piagetian techniques of error correction during the project. Error correction provided by tutors to tutees focussed on morph syntaxys, more specifically the correction of verbs. Peer support provided via the on-line environment was predominantly based on the tutor giving the right answer to the tutee. High rates of impact on tutee corrected messages were observed. The implications for peer tutoring initiative taking place via on-line environments are discussed. Implications for policy and practice are explored.


Computers in Education | 2013

Paradoxical effects of feedback in international online reciprocal peer tutoring

Keith Topping; R. Dehkinet; Sílvia Blanch; M. Corcelles; David Duran

This paper reports an online reciprocal peer tutoring project for improving language competence in Spanish and English. Students aged 9-12 years from Scotland and Catalonia were matched to act as tutors in their own language and as tutees in a modern foreign language. Students were intended to improve both their first language (through helping the tutee) and a modern language (with their tutors help). The methodology combined a quasi-experimental design and a qualitative analysis of texts. For Catalan students, pre-post test results indicated statistically significant improvements in reading comprehension (while acting as tutors) and writing (while acting as tutees). Scottish students improved only their writing (acting as tutees). Analysis of the texts showed that when more support was given, the tutor had more learning opportunities, but then there were fewer opportunities for the tutee, and vice versa. Thus the tutee learned more with less elaborated feedback, leading to fewer opportunities for tutor improvement. This paradox could be resolved by adjusting the scaffolding support given by tutors, to create a balanced interactive learning context for both members of the pair.


Infancia Y Aprendizaje | 2010

Tutoría entre iguales recíproca y virtual para la mejora de habilidades lingüísticas en español e inglés

David Duran; Sílvia Blanch; Allen Thurston; Keith Topping

Resumen Este artículo presenta una investigación sobre un proyecto virtual de tutoría entre iguales recíproca para el aprendizaje y mejora del español e inglés. Alumnos de 9 a 12 años de Escocia y Cataluña fueron emparejados, de forma que cada alumno ejerciese de tutor de su propia lengua del otro compañero. Se pretendía que los alumnos mejoraran tanto su propia lengua (corrigiendo al tutorado), como la lengua extranjera (a partir de las ayudas de su tutor), ejerciendo así tanto de tutores como de tutorados. La investigación combina un diseño cuasi experimental con grupos de control, con un análisis del proceso, a través de los intercambios (textos y correcciones) y de entrevistas. Los resultados muestran que el grado de ayuda ofrecida por los tutores parece relevante para explicar las mejoras detectadas en las habilidades lingüísticas.


Cultura Y Educacion | 2007

Read on: un programa de mejora de la lectura a través de la tutoría entre alumnos y el apoyo familiar

David Duran; Sílvia Blanch

Resumen El artículo plantea una revisión del programa educativo escocés Read On, desarrollado por el Centre for Peer Learning de la Universidad de Dundee. Dos razones hacen interesante analizar la experiencia en nuestro contexto educativo. Por un lado, la pertinencia de los objetivos del programa (mejora de la competencia lectora, del desarrollo de competencias sociales y de la implicación de las familias) y, por otro, el recurso principal a partir del cual se logra: la movilización de la capacidad de alumnos mayores y de padres para actuar como tutores de lectura. La experiencia se comenta a partir de la revisión documental y de los datos empíricos de las visitas a cuatro escuelas.


European Journal of Psychology of Education | 2013

The effects and characteristics of family involvement on a peer tutoring programme to improve the reading comprehension competence

Sílvia Blanch; David Duran; Vanessa Valdebenito; Marta Flores


Innovate: Journal of Online Education | 2008

Let Me Learn with My Peers Online!: Foreign Language Learning through Reciprocal Peer Tutoring.

Rayenne Dekhinet; Keith Topping; David Duran; Sílvia Blanch


Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences | 2012

The Effects of a Peer Tutoring Programme to Improve the Reading Comprehension Competence Involving Primary Students at School and their Families at Home

Sílvia Blanch; David Duran; Marta Flores; Vanessa Valdebenito


Archive | 2017

Proyectos de Aprendizaje y Servicio en la Formación Universitaria de Educación

M. Teresa Fuertes; Salvador Vidal i Raméntol; Victoria Morín Fraile; Anna Escofet Roig; Laura Rubio i Serrano; Gemma París; Sílvia Blanch; Mequè Edo; Mar Morón; Marc Franco Sola; Queca Criach; Rosa Palau; Sara Figueras; Carles Yepes


Archive | 2017

Rúbrica de autoevaluación de competencias y habilidades personales y prosociales.

Gemma París; Sílvia Blanch; Pilar Comes; Mequè Edo; Joan Estrada; Xavier Gimeno; Mar Morón; Tomás Peire; Equip de Recerca Sumant Compromís Educatiu


Archive | 2016

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Sílvia Blanch; Eulàlia Pérez i Vallverdú; Jennifer Silvente

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David Duran

Autonomous University of Barcelona

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Eulàlia Pérez i Vallverdú

Autonomous University of Barcelona

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Allen Thurston

Queen's University Belfast

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Anna Marbà Tallada

Autonomous University of Barcelona

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Digna Couso

Autonomous University of Barcelona

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Màrius Martínez Muñoz

Autonomous University of Barcelona

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Neus González Monfort

Autonomous University of Barcelona

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Xavier Gimeno Soria

Autonomous University of Barcelona

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