Using wikis for collaborative esp writing with psychology students

Abstract

This paper aims at analyzing the role of e-learning instruments, in particular, wikis, in teaching CLIL and ESP to psychology students at Lomonosov Moscow State University. Recent studies have shown that a wiki can be a valuable and effective tool for improving writing skills in L2 (English). This paper presents the results of the study conducted with first, second and third year students creating a series of collaborative writing tasks on different psychological topics. This research gives insights into benefits and drawbacks of using wikis for developing writing skills on content-specific and professionally oriented topics at the university level.