Image retrieved from Google on January 15, 2011
I just finished discriminating the data from all of the conversations and I found that the results vary depending on each of the students' commitment to their learning process and how much attention they paid to their peers' comments in the forum. For instance, Johana and Fabiola were the students who devoted more time to listen to their partners' conversations and they also had some time to reflect upon their own performances. This caused an impact in terms of progress in the construction of accurate utterances in the past tense especially with Johana who was always demanding with herself throughout the process. On the other hand, Fabiola did great during the fist five conversations, but then in the last two her performance in constructing accurate utterances waned. She told me that she felt tired and she had lots of things to do at her work and that had an influence in her outcomes. Claudia had little change; I can conclude that in spite of improving sentence construction especially at the predicate level as well as the Subject + Verb agreement, she still had problems implementing the verbs in past tense.
Diana and Andres showed no progress at all throughout the process. They did not manage to raise awareness on the importance of constructing accurate full-length utterances. Their comments in the forum were just too shallow (especially Andres's) and they did not consider their partners' advice in order to improve their performances.
