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Integrating Social Networking Tools into ESL Writing Classroom. Melor Md…
Integrating Social Networking Tools into ESL Writing Classroom. Melor Md Yunus1, Hadi Salehi2 & Chen Chenzi :!:
strengths
The electronic communication tools allow students to write to the teacher and to each other in ways that will open up teaching and learning opportunities for everyone involved. :!:
guided learning environment in which they express themselves to a varied audience with their written words :!:
writing-centered online courses allow instructors and students to interact in ways beyond content delivery :!:
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electronic communities can build the social and professional connections that constitute some of education’s real value :!:
help enhancing the skills such as the ability to search, to evaluate, to interact meaningfully with tools, and so on :!:
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weaknesses :
It takes time to design, edit and modify digital learning materials for teachers. Sometimes it is time-consuming and frustrating to search for the materials online. :!!:
Some learners find it so difficult to read the materials online because they are accustomed to the traditional book-centered approach :!!:
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The relationship between teacher and students can somehow be tricky. Teachers need to realize that even though the environment is virtual, the identity should not be hidden. :!!:
Students will spare more time on playing computer games and chatting on-line on the pretext of doing writing on internet. :!!:
Writing tasks online will lead students to ‘copy-paste’ from the extensive online resources without thinking : :!!:
scholars:
Boyd and Ellison (2007), SNSs are web-based services that allow individuals to construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system, articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection, and view the pages and details provided by other users within the system :check:
Ahmad (2011) believes that SNSs have evolved as a combination of personalized media experience within social context of participation :check:
Boyd and Ellison (2007) claimed that social networking sites not only allow individuals to meet strangers, “instead, they are primarily communicating with people who are already a part of their extended social network” :check:
Taranto, Dalbon, and Gaetano (2011), as the world becomes more and more connected through advances in information and communication technologies, classroom experiences need to reflect those same changes :check:
Yang (2008) also commented that teacher and students can treat Blog as a ‘blackboard’ and teacher can save all the students’ works. Furthermore, teacher can post and introduce articles to students; students could chain their blogs in order to share information :check:
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research methodology
praticipants: 15, TESL students
researchers posted questions on the discussion board and the participants replied and reacted to the questions.
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