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The Effect of Learner Training on the Use of Digital Tools to Support…
The Effect of Learner Training on the Use of Digital Tools to Support English Writing Skills
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Africa only 21.8% of the total population was using the Internet
Asia (43.9%)
Europe (79.6%)
Computers for writing can:
motivate learners :check:
supplying prompts for the writers :check:
making the editing of work easy :check:
speech recognition :check:
audio feedback :check:
word prediction :check:
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CALL environments
:silhouettes:Hubbard (2004) described CALL environments as powerful learning environments and argued that learners must be prepared adequately in order to learn in these environments.
can negative results if learners :green_cross:
lack of technical
strategic
pedagogical skills
Constraints associated with CALL (Reinders & White, 2010)
Distraction from information
a lack of necessary support structures
The hidden costs of available resources
web-advertising
a lack of systematization
limited quality control
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Learner Digital Stories in a Web
DIGITAL STORYTELLING :fire:
allows people to share personal and cultural stories and perspectives in unique ways such as digital image, video, audio
:silhouettes:Lambert’s framework for the conception and development of DS has seven elements:
point of view
emphasis on the dramatic question emotional content
gift of the storyteller’s voice
soundtrack
economy
pacing
To creation digital story: iMovie or MovieMaker, VoiceThread, SlideShare
:pen:For future implementations these factors should be taken into consideration:
Students should be aware of the difference between written and oral media;
Irrelevant images
provide learning and higher order thinking
improvement of student writing
helps reduce the cognitive overload in working memory
information recieved both verbally and visually
Has opportunity to revise and edit the work
Chance for collaborative learning
potentially much larger audience online
Digital images, drawings, and video clips visually scaffold the traditional literacy that students struggling with.
raises student awareness of audience, purpose, and form
The training session categories
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1) Technical Training
The technical training consisted of preparing the participants to connect to the University Wi-Fi, changing the language of the MS Word application from their mother tongue to English
2) Strategic Training
focused on how to use six features of MS Word to improve writing skills using cognitive, meta-cognitive and socio-affective strategies
3) Pedagogical Training
to provide pedagogical training to the learners:
:pencil2: Experience CALL yourself
Give learners teacher training
Use a cyclic approach
Use collaborative debriefings
Teach general exploitation strategies