Compared with first language (L1) writing, writing in a second or foreign language (L2) is considered to be more challenging and difficult. The challenges and difficulties may result from both the cognitive and the affective aspects of writing. To mitigate the difficulties of L2 writing and help students master L2 writing, teachers could consider using the pedagogical strategies which can help enhance students' cognition in writing or students' writing performance, and also can help reduce students' fear of L2 writing. One of the pedagogical strategies is online collaborative writing supported by CMC. Collaborative learning helps enhance students' cognitive outcomes, such as academic achievement and cognitive development, as well as produce less anxiety in learning. CMC facilitates collaboration, and also provides more chances for interaction which could result in more thoughts. The more thoughts would facilitate to compose. Therefore, it is assumed that online collaborative writing is more effective than traditional collaborative writing in terms of writing performance and writing anxiety. The present study is a quasi-experimental study. Participants were 101 first-year college students from two intact classes of a private university in Taiwan. One class was randomly assigned as the control class. Participants were engaged in traditional collaborative writing. The other was the experimental class. Students wrote collaboratively via blogs. Before the treatment, both classes were asked to completed a background survey, a pre-test L2 writing anxiety questionnaire, and a pre-test individual writing task. The treatment lasted for ten weeks during which each collaborative group in both classes completed five collaborative writing tasks. After the treatment, a collaborative writing questionnaire, a post-test L2 writing anxiety questionnaire, and a post-test individual writing task were administered to all participants. Semi-structured individual interviews were conducted to the students who made the largest, medium, and lowest gains in both classes. Quantitative and qualitative analyses were conducted to analyze the data. In terms of the quantitative results, there were no significant difference in collaborative writing performance and the quantity of individual writing between classes. The experimental class only significantly performed better than the control class in the quality of individual writing. Concerning the writing anxiety measured, the control class was significantly lower than the experimental class. Regarding students' perceptions, the results of the questionnaire showed that the control class made much more positive responses than the experimental class. As for the qualitative results, students' interviews revealed (1) the function of collaborative writing, (2) the features of the media, (3) the difficulty they encounter during collaborative writing, (4) the positive and negative factors influencing their motivation to write, and (5) their suggestions for teachers. The qualitative results support the quantitative results. Overall, this dissertation study found that, based on statistic results, traditional collaborative writing seems to be more effective than blog-supported collaborative writing in decreasing the writing anxiety of the EFL college students with weaker English ability and little writing experience. In addition, according to students' perceptions and interview results, traditional collaborative writing also appears to be more acceptable in this context. Although the statistic results suggest that the effect of blog-supported collaborative writing on writing performance and writing anxiety seems to be limited and little probably due to the use of blogs as individual and synchronous tools, its effectiveness can not be completely denied because students' perceptions and interviews suggest its positive influence and outcome. L2 teachers are suggested to provide more training sessions, employ the collaborative writing activity as an out-of-class assignment, and carefully monitor the process of collaborative writing if they do use blogs in L2 writing instruction.

La collaboration entre les professionnels de la santé s’avère être nécessaire pour faire face au vieillissement de la population, à la prévalence des maladies chroniques et à la pénurie de personnel chez certaines professions de la santé (OMS, 2010). De plus, pour favoriser une collaboration optimale et offrir des soins de qualité, des équipes choisissent désormais d’adopter une approche de soins en partenariat patient où la collaboration interprofessionnelle se déroule en valorisant les savoirs expérientiels du patient à l’égard de la vie avec la maladie et en l’intégrant dans l’équipe de soins. L’Université de Montréal (UdeM) offre une formation à l’éducation à la collaboration interprofessionnelle (EIP) visant à enseigner des compétences de la pratique collaborative en sciences de la santé et en sciences psychosociales en partenariat avec le patient. L’EIP est confrontée à divers défis, entre autres, de logistique, de communication et de cloisonnement des professions. Pour surmonter ces obstacles, l’UdeM s’est donc tournée vers le numérique afin de permettre à des équipes interprofessionnelles d’étudiants de collaborer en ligne et en présentiel. Cette étude s’intéresse donc à décrire comment les étudiants réunis en équipe interprofessionnelle collaborent dans le contexte du cours hybride de Collaboration en sciences de la santé (CSS) en partenariat avec le patient offert par l’UdeM. Nous décrivons comment les étudiants collaborent en ligne et en présentiel et nous identifions les compétences du référentiel de compétences mobilisées. Notre étude propose un cadre conceptuel basé sur l’apprentissage collaboratif en mode hybride (en ligne et en présentiel) de l’EIP composé 1) du modèle de Chiocchio, Grenier, O’Neill, Savaria et Willms (2012) permettant de décrire comment les équipes d’étudiants mobilisent les dimensions de la collaboration (communication, synchronisation, coordination implicite et explicite); 2) du référentiel de compétences de la pratique collaborative et de partenariat patient en santé et services sociaux (Direction collaboration partenariat patient [DCPP] et Comité interfacultaire opérationnel l’Université de Montréal [CIO-UdeM], 2016) et 3) de la typologie du travail interprofessionnel de Xyrichis, Reeves, Zwarenstein (2018). 18 Notre étude emploie une méthodologie mixte convergente. Nous avons mené cette étude auprès d’une cohorte de 1435 étudiants de deuxième année de baccalauréat dans le cadre du cours CSS2900 provenant de treize programmes à l’UdeM. Ce cours se divise en trois volets: 1) formation en ligne 2) activité intraprogramme, 3) atelier interprofessionnel en présentiel coanimé par un professionnel de la santé et un patient formateur. Premièrement, nous avons analysé le Journal de bord collaboratif (JBC) de douze équipes interprofessionnelles d’étudiants (n=60), soit un corpus de cette cohorte. Deuxièmement, nous avons partagé un questionnaire La collaboration en équipes interprofessionnelles à la cohorte à la fin du cours et celui-ci a été répondu par 321 participants. Les résultats indiquent que les participants de l’étude ont majoritairement et similairement mobilisé les dimensions de la collaboration. La communication et la coordination seraient tributaires de la synchronisation lorsque la collaboration se déroule en ligne. L’usage des médias sociaux et d’un outil d’écriture collaborative en ligne auraient favorisé la collaboration en mode hybride. En présentiel, le patient partenaire coanimateur a soutenu des équipes pour faire le point sur leurs apprentissages et ainsi développer des compétences du référentiel du cours CSS2900. Le contexte de l’étude en mode hybride permet aux équipes de collaborer sur une longue période, à la manière d’une classe inversée (figure 29). Ceci favoriserait le développement des compétences du référentiel (DCPP et CIO-UdeM) et le décloisonnement des professions. Les contextes d’apprentissage où les pratiques des compétences effectives ont été mobilisées semblent se rapprocher du réseautage interprofessionnel et de la collaboration consultative de la typologie de Xyrichis et coll. (2018). / Collaboration among health professionals is required to contend with population aging, the prevalence of chronic illnesses, and staff shortages in certain health professions (WHO, 2010). As well, to foster optimal collaboration and provide good quality of care, some teams are now adopting a patient partnership approach in which the patient’s experiential knowledge of living with illness is valued as part of the interprofessional collaboration and the patient is integrated into the healthcare team. The Université de Montréal (UdeM) offers a program in interprofessional collaboration education (IPE) geared towards teaching the competencies required for collaborative practice in both health sciences and psychosocial sciences in partnership with patients. The IPE is confronted with a variety of challenges related to logistics, communication, and the compartmentalization of professions, among others. To overcome these obstacles, the UdeM has turned to digital technology to help interprofessional teams of students to collaborate online and in person. This study focused on describing how students in interprofessional teams collaborate in the hybrid course entitled Health Sciences Collaboration in Partnership with Patients, offered by the UdeM. We describe how students collaborate online and in the classroom, and we identify the competencies in the competency framework used. Our study proposes a conceptual framework based on the IPE’s hybrid (online and in person) collaborative learning model, which we constructed using: 1) the model of Chiocchio, Grenier, O’Neill, Savaria, and Willms (2012), to describe how the student teams collaborate and used dimensions of collaboration (communication, synchronisation, explicit and implicit coordination) ; 2) the competency framework for collaborative practice and patient partnership in health and social services (Direction collaboration et partenariat patient [DCPP] and Comité interfacultaire opérationnel de formation à la collaboration, l’Université de Montréal [CIO-UdeM], 2016); and 3) the interprofessional work typology of Xyrichis, Reeves, and Zwarenstein (2018). Our study used a convergent mixed methodology. We conducted this study with a cohort of 1,435 second-year undergraduate students in course CSS2900 coming from 13 20 different UdeM programs. This course is divided in three parts: 1) online training 2) intra- program activity, 3) interprofessional workshop coanimated by a health professional and patient-partner facilitator in classroom. First, we analyzed the online collaboration journal (OCJ) of 12 interprofessional student teams (n = 60). Second, we distributed a questionnaire on Collaboration in Interprofessional Teams to the entire cohort at the end of the course, to which 321 participants responded. The results show that the majority of study participants used the dimensions of collaboration in a similar manner online and in person. Communication and coordination were dependent on synchronization when collaboration occurred online. The use of both social media and an online collaborative writing tool fostered collaboration in hybrid mode. In the classroom, the patient-partner co-facilitator supported the teams as they reviewed their learning (coordination) and, in this way, developed the competencies of the framework for course CSS2900. Under the hybrid study model, the teams were able to collaborate over an extended period, similar to a flipped classroom approach (Figure 29). This fostered development of the framework competencies (DCPP and CIO-UdeM) and helped break down professional boundaries. The learning contexts in which effective competency practices were mobilized appeared analogous to the interprofessional networking and consultative collaboration categories in the typology of Xyrichis et al. (2018).