Technologies in the Second Language Composition Classroom

Bloch, Joel

doi:10.3998/mpub.198706

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“…Students can develop critical thinking skills, writing skills and information literacy through using blogs (Richardson, 2006). Due to Bloch (2008), it is very powerful to integrate blogs in teaching writing skills because it is easy for both teacher and students to create and run the blogs; moreover, they support group work, feedback activity, and collaborative learning. Students will be encouraged to write more, they can share their writing easier.…”

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Developing Writing Abilities Of Efl Students Through Blogging

Kitchakarn¹

2014

Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education

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Due to a rapid development and expansion of technology and, as a result, Web 2.0 technologies are providing both teachers and learners with new solutions to the limitations of traditional method in the field of language teaching and learning. The research compared students' writing ability before and after they were taught through blog, a new medium or tool for written communication and interaction in many different languages around the world.The research design is a kind of one group pretest posttest. Participants were 35 firstyear students. They were divided into eight groups. Four or five students in each group created a blog, www.blogger.com, and they worked together for twelve weeks to produce six pieces of writing assignments.Each member in the group worked through providing comments, editing and revising on the blog until the group got a final writing and submitted that to the teacher for grading. The instruments used in this study were: two writing tests  a questionnaire surveying students' attitude toward learning through blogs, and  postings on blogs to reflect their learning experiences.The results revealed that after the students worked together on weblogs, their English writing mean score of the posttest was higher than that of the pretest, and they had positive attitudes towards using weblogs in learning. Regarding cooperative learning experiences through using weblogs, most students thought that it was interesting, a new experience to work with their friends on the weblogs.

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Developing Writing Abilities Of Efl Students Through Blogging

Kitchakarn¹

2014

Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education

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“…The specificity of blog topics enables writers to be aware of this information. Other benefits of blogging with regard to the writing process include, being easy to create and maintain, making writing easier to share, encouraging students to write outside of the classroom, and supporting group work and collaboration (Bloch, 2008).…”

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Examining the Blogging Habits of Agricultural Leadership Students: Understanding Motivation, Use, and Self-efficacy

Bumguardner

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Murphrey

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JAE

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Blogging is a form of social media and student engagement is at the center of blogging. The benefits of blogging include ease in making writing easier to share, encouraging students to write outside of the classroom, and supporting group collaboration. The findings suggest students are more passive in their blogging experiences, as the data found students generally read blogs more than they wrote blogs. The unified theory on the acceptance and use of technology and self-efficacy were used as the framework for the study. This study sought to explore agricultural leadership students' motivations for blogging in writing intensive courses. Effort expectancy, performance expectancy, and behavioral intention were significantly correlated with self-efficacy. Teacher training could be used to increase awareness among educators about the benefits of blogging. Educators must be able to convey the benefits of educational blogging in terms of its ease and benefit in order to encourage student acceptance. Improved preparation of agricultural leadership instructors to include blogging in writing intensive courses may improve student engagement and learning, and increase our academic discipline's knowledge of approaches that influence the practice of technology diffusion.

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“…In this process, students act as researchers to analyze corpus examples and engage in autonomous and exploratory learning. Over the past decade, corps consultation in the classroom has been regarded by some L2 writing researchers as one of the most promising areas that can inform L2 writing pedagogy and broaden language teaching and learning (Bloch, 2007;Conrad, 2008;Granath, 2009;Yoon, 2011). Numerous studies (Coxhead & Byrd, 2007;Flowerdew, 2010;Tribble, 2009) have shown that corpus examples are effective in helping learners with lexico-grammatical patterns to enhance L2 learner writing performance.…”

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Using Corpora for Error Correction in EFL Learners’ Writing

Luo

Liu

2015

JLTR

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Abstract-This study reports on a small-scale study exploring the effects of using corpora in the process of revising essays in English as a foreign language (EFL). 30 undergraduate students from two College English Classes in China participate in the experiment. The BFSU CQP web is used for assisting experimental group to correct the lexico-grammatical errors in writing. The findings reveal that corpora as reference resources are more helpful than the online dictionary in helping learners make accurate corrections and reduce errors in free production. The following questionnaires indicate that participants generally show positive attitudes toward corpus use in writing. However, there are also some challenges to overcome while using corpora such as too much time spent in analyzing data, too many examples in the concordance lines and so on. These findings suggest the need for more well-planned corpus-based activities to help learners benefit as much as possible from corpora-assisted learning.

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Technologies in the Second Language Composition Classroom

Cited by 12 publications

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Developing Writing Abilities Of Efl Students Through Blogging

Developing Writing Abilities Of Efl Students Through Blogging

Examining the Blogging Habits of Agricultural Leadership Students: Understanding Motivation, Use, and Self-efficacy

Using Corpora for Error Correction in EFL Learners’ Writing

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