网络学习空间环境下小学生写作篇幅发展趋势的追踪研究

The Length of Elementary School Students’ Digital Writing in the Context of Online Learning: A Longitudinal Study

本研究以大连市某小学某班从小学一年级开始数字化写作的47名小学生为被试,持续收集被试从三年级上学期开始连续五个学期在网络学习空间所有的日常数字化写作作品,并根据研究需要经过严格的数据清理流程,形成学生写作文本语料库,用以分析网络学习空间环境下小学生写作篇幅的发展趋势。结果发现:(1)网络学习环境下,学生写作篇幅普遍存在随学期增加而增长的趋势;(2)学生的写作篇幅存在显著的分段增长趋势,在第七学期增长速度变慢;(3)在网络学习空间环境下,不同家庭社会经济地位的学生在写作篇幅的发展上没有显著差异;(4)在网络学习空间环境下,不同家庭读写环境的学生在写作篇幅的发展上没有显著差异。

In this study, a whole class of 47 students from a primary school in Dalian were selected as subjects. Tliey started online digital writing from the first year of primary school. All digital writing works in their online learning space were collected for five consecutive terms starting from the first term of Year 3. Through a rigorous data cleansing process a text corpus tailored to the study was developed for the purpose of exploring the de_ velopmental trend of the length of students' digital writing in the context of online learning. The results showed that in the context of online learning:(1) the length of student wiiting tended to increase with the increase of the school terms;(2) the length of student writing revealed a trend of piecewise growth, with a slowdown at the first term of Year 4;(3) there was no significant difference in the length of writing between students with different levels of socio-economic status;(4) there was no significant difference in the length of writing between students with different home learning environment.