This paper examines the use of online writing tools by French-speaking learners of English based on the analysis of screen recordings of a free composition task that come from the Process Corpus of English in Education, a process corpus of learner writing. The study charts learners’ use of online resources by investigating how often learners resort to tools, which tools they use, and what effect the use of tools has on their texts. Results show considerable individual variation in the extent to which learners use online tools and a general propensity to rely on a limited range of tool types, most often bilingual tools. Overall, the use of tools helps learners improve their texts, but a close examination of their consultation behaviour also reveals shortcomings in learners’ strategies, such as a tendency to carry out single-word searches or a lack of critical thinking about the information that tools provide.

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英语学习者使用在线写作工具：来自过程语料库的证据

本文通过对来自英语教育过程语料库（学习者写作过程语料库）的自由作文任务屏幕录像的分析，研究了法语英语学习者对在线写作工具的使用情况。该研究通过调查学习者使用工具的频率、他们使用哪些工具以及工具的使用对他们的课文产生什么影响来绘制学习者对在线资源的使用情况。结果显示，学习者使用在线工具的程度存在相当大的个体差异，并且普遍倾向于依赖有限范围的工具类型，通常是双语工具。总体而言，工具的使用有助于学习者改进他们的文本，但仔细检查他们的咨询行为也揭示了学习者策略的缺陷，