BETWEEN DEFERENCE AND DEMEANOR: THE OUTSTANDING MIND IN ONLINE COLLABORATION CONTEXTS. SOME INSIGHTS BASED ON THE FIVE-FACTOR MODEL OF PERSONALITY TRAITS

• Authors: Anna Turula
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article looks at the problem of online collaboration vis à vis individual differences, with special regard to the converger learning style, also referred to – throughout the article – as the solitary outstanding mind. Based on a study of a group of such learners (N=11), utilizing a bifocal analysis of personality types determined by the NEO Five Factor Inventory together with student self-reflection journals, it is being argued here that for everybody to benefit from online co-operation, the teacher needs to sequence groupwork, intertwining it with phases of quiet individual effort; as well as carefully choose tasks remembering their specificity is a catalyser of genuine collaboration.

Keywords

EN

personality traits CALL

• Publisher: IATEFL Poland Computer Special Interest Group & University of Nicosia
• Journal: Teaching English with Technology
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 13
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 3-22

Contributors

author

Anna Turula

• Social Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

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