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Four EFL learners interviewed about synchronous online forum discussion described seven themes: positive feelings, motivation, interaction, writing-skill gains and autonomy, alongside practical challenges and a cultural issue

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q1 i? Thematic analysis of interviews with four OFD participants identified seven major themes: five positive (feelings such as happiness and comfort, motivation, peer interaction, perceived writing-skill gains, and autonomy) and two concerns (challenges: slow networks, too few computers, typing, time, topics, presentation and grouping; and a cultural issue, one student wanting topics suited to boys as well as girls). Overall the learners expressed positive attitudes toward forum discussion for EFL writing. → Jayaron Jose & Mohammed Jafre Zainol Abidin 2016

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Jayaron Jose & Mohammed Jafre Zainol Abidin 2016

Jayaron Jose & Mohammed Jafre Zainol Abidin. (2016). A Pedagogical Perspective on Promoting English as a Foreign Language Writing through Online Forum Discussions. English Language Teaching, 9(2). https://doi.org/10.5539/elt.v9n2p84

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Qualitative semi-structured interviews with four OFD participants (S1–S4), analysed with the Framework method and NVivo 2010 with inter-coder reliability; the positive themes included happiness, motivation, peer interaction, and perceived writing-skill gains such as "I improved first thing is my spelling", while the challenges theme recorded technical, typing, time, topic, presentation and grouping difficulties, and the cultural-issues theme one request for topics not focused only on girls. Interview data from S4 were used only briefly, and the text once says "four main themes" where Table 8 and the summary give seven.

"A careful thematic analysis of the interview has identified seven major themes or dimensions of the online forum discussions with their sub-themes."

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