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Integrating Social Networking Tools into ESL Writing Classroom:, Reference…
Integrating Social Networking Tools into ESL Writing Classroom:
Weaknesses
Unstable internet connection
Inconvenience of e-books
Tricky relationship between teacher and student / student and student
Social Media addiction
Time-consuming and sometimes unreliable
Plagiarism
Less awareness of ICT
Strengths
Provides wide rang of multimedia interaction: pictures, videos, links and so on.
Students will take responsibility for their works and to self-directed learning.
Students will have a larger audience. Working online fosters a sense of global interaction.
(especially) shy students
Students can read comments for the class as a whole and comments directly and individually on them.
Students can get enough input from SNSs so they will develop students’ writing skills. In SNSs teacher’s notes can be viewed with chronological order.
Parents can view their children’s work and progress
SNSs engage students by presenting material in a way that is familiar and comfortable for them
SNSs
Telegram
Twitter
Wikipedia
Facebook
Virtual Classroom
Munoz & Tower (2009)
c) Teacher cab post discussion topics, videos, links, etc.
d) Invite "Guests" - other Experts
b) Make private
e) Student need to respond to teacher's posts
a) Create Group
f) when the lesson is over, the teacher will decide to shut down or not the group
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.
Melor (2007)
social interaction technologies have great benefits for lifelong education environments. The social interaction can help enhancing the skills such as the ability to search, to evaluate, to interact meaningfully with tools, and so on.
Methodology
Research design
Online discussion board
Research instrument
open ended questions
Questions on
The advantages and disadvantages of using SNSs in teaching ESL writing and the ways to plan activities by integrating SNSs into the classroom.
Data Collection
Comments were analyzed
Results
Advantages
Increase motivation and confidence
Increase critical thinking and writing skills
Broaden students' knowledge
provide opportunity of creating efficient lesson
improve students vocabulary
provide large amount of information
Disadvantages
Abbreviations provided negative effect
Automatic correction may mislead students
Difficult to concentrate
Reference
:
Yunus, M. M., Salehi, H., & Chenzi, C. (2012). Integrating social networking tools into ESL writing classroom: Strengths and weaknesses. English Language Teaching, 5(8), 42-48.