Collaborative writing among L2 learners in academic web-based projects - 2 views

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  #1 Joseph Fithian on 10 Mar 12

   

  My first entry was "How Well Are ESL Teachers Being Prepared to Integrate Technology in Their Classrooms?" The second: "A Framework for Addressing Challenges to Classroom Technology Use". The third was: "Have Technology and Multitasking Rewired How Students Learn?". For this forth article, the title above, gives insight to further question the viability of classroom use of current technology as it applies to English L2 leaners and concisely about writing at the university level. In the last article I choose, the information was relevant, but dated. For this article I turned to the NFLR and the CLEAR programs at the universities of Hawaii and Michigan State, respectively for more current research. In their project they studied thirty-eight Fulbright scholars in an orientation program which used a Web-based word processing tool to collaboratively plan and report on a research project. The study analyzed the effectiveness of web-based media tools. One statement that stood-out to me was this: "The pedagogical potential of this type of tool may influence an evolution of pedagogical practices and considerations." So to these researchers there is a significant change occurring as a result to the advances in technology used in the classroom.
  
  
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  http://llt.msu.edu/issues/february2012/kesslerbikowskiboggs.pdf

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">My first entry was "How Well Are ESL Teachers Being Prepared to Integrate Technology in Their Classrooms?" The second: "A Framework for Addressing Challenges to Classroom Technology Use". The third was: "Have Technology and Multitasking Rewired How Students Learn?". For this forth article, the title above, gives insight to further question the viability of classroom use of current technology as it applies to English L2 leaners and concisely about writing at the university level. In the last article I choose, the information was relevant, but dated. For this article I turned to the NFLR and the CLEAR programs at the universities of Hawaii and Michigan State, respectively for more current research. In their project they studied thirty-eight Fulbright scholars in an orientation program which used a Web-based word processing tool to collaboratively plan and report on a research project. The study analyzed the effectiveness of web-based media tools. One statement that stood-out to me was this: "The pedagogical potential of this type of tool may influence an evolution of pedagogical practices and considerations." So to these researchers there is a significant change occurring as a result to the advances in technology used in the classroom. <br /> <br /> <br /> Link: <br /> <a href="http://llt.msu.edu/issues/february2012/kesslerbikowskiboggs.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://llt.msu.edu/issues/february2012/kesslerbikowskiboggs.pdf</a></div>

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