A Longitudinal Study on Enjoyment and Emotion Regulation in Online Collaborative Writ-ing
Through video recordings,the plotted enjoyment curves,and interviews,the current study examined the development and interrelation of enjoyment and emotion regulation within the 15-week online English collaborative writing of three English-major students.The results indicated that:(1)as online collaborative writing progressed,the frequency and duration of the group-level enjoyment steadily increased despite fluctuations;(2)learners primarily employed two types of interpersonal emotion-regulation strategies,namely shared regulation and co-regulation,to dy-namically adjust the group-level enjoyment.The former included collective management of task,collective focus on task,collective attention deployment,and collective emotion venting,while the latter comprised peers'cognitive reappraisal,peers'guidance,and peers'encouragement;(3)In the initial phase of online collaborative writing,learners predominantly engaged in co-regula-tion,whereas in the middle and later phases,they tended to use shared regulation.The paper con-cludes with implications for future research and second language teaching.
online English collaborative writingenjoymentemotion regulationshared regula-tionco-regulation