Besides speaking, writing skills is another important skill that university students need to master. Students need to develop their writing skills in order to cope with their university coursework. Nevertheless, writing is more than just converting oral thoughts into written form. Online learning has pushed many changes to take place for the teaching and learning of academic writing. The use of technology facilitates the teaching of writing. On the other hand, sometimes, teachers are unable to see their student’s body language in the online setting. This means that there is a lack of nonverbal hint expression of confusion on the students' faces and these hints could help the teacher measure their students’ understanding of the teaching of academic writing online. This quantitative research is done to investigate how learn academic writing using colour codes. The instrument used is a survey The survey has 5 main sections. With reference to Table 1, section A has items on the demographic profile. Section B has 8 items on Transcribing Technology, section C has 22 items on Task materials, section D has 7 items on Collaborators and Critics, and section E has 7 items 7 items on Text Written so far. A summary of the findings show interesting information on (a) transcribing technology, (b) task materials, (c) collaboration, and (d) text written so far in terms of learning academic writing online using coloured scaffolds. Findings of this study bear interesting pedagogical implications in the teaching and learning of academic writing online.
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