Implementing Collaborative Writing Tasks in Multilingual Classrooms

In recent decades, interest in implementing collaborative writing-having two or more writers work on a joint composition-has been propelled by rapid developments in social software and moves toward online teaching.Mimi Li and Neomy Storch have drawn from their extensive research and teaching expertise on collaborative writing to re-evaluate the pedagogical practices of collaborative writing and inform readers about how diverse ways of implementing collaborative writing (across modes, genres, tasks, learning contexts) can facilitate multilingual students’ language learning and writing development in the digital age. With clear visuals and concrete examples of different types of collaborative writing tasks-including multimodal writing and collaborative reading for writing tasks-the book invites readers to consider the kind of decisions that need to be taken when implementing collaborative writing (e.g., group size, how to allocate students) and when assessing collaborative writing.In con