Week 8 : Computer-Assisted Instruction (CAI)

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Week 7 : Corpus for Classrooms: Ideas for Material Design

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Week 6 : Modal Auxiliary in British English: A corpus-based study of modality through British national corpus

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Week 5: Using corpus analysis software to analyze specialized texts

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Week 4 : Digital Writing: Enhancing Ways of Teaching and Learning Writing

According to the article:

1. What are the problems struggling writers have in writing classes?

          According to the article there are many struggling writers.

- The problems of struggling writers is often less motivated to write and fails to organize their ideas.

- They have problems in expressing their idea through composition and sometimes have trouble communicating and understanding their teachers and peers during discussion in the classroom.

- A lack of confidence in producing their teachers and peers during discussion in producing text and insecure feeling about showing their writing to other, in particular to their peers.

- Struggling writers are likely to develop negative attitudes towards writing, have low motivation to write.

2. What does 'digital writing' refer to?
          Digital writing refer to the ways that computers and technology have become basic needs for Generation M have given rise to digital writing as the medium to communicate with each other.

3. What are the three digital writing tools? Give brief descriptions?
          There are three types of digital writing tools include Blogs, Instant Messaging (IM) and Social Network Site (SNS)

- Blogs

A blogs is a discussion, information article or personal journal, published on the World Wide Web, which is often frequently updated.

- Instant Messaging (IM) - MSN, Line, Twitter, Skype, Chat-room

          Instant Messaging (IM) is a form of internet-based, real time text communication between users on the same system.

- Social Network Site (SNS)
          Social Network Site (SNS) is a website or an online service platform in which people share interest, create a public or semi- public profile, and interact with other users. 

4. How has digital writing enhanced the teaching of writing?

- First, they provide opportunities for users to use nicknames or pseudonyms.

- Second, this emulated real-time communication is perceived through since learners can see what their partners intend to communicate through the typed text.

- Third, digital writing promotes learner’ equity in term of interaction.

- Forth, many digital writings, such as instant messaging, have history logs where users can view the history of the conversations they have had with others.

- Fifth, digital writing offers authentic language environments.

- Lastly, digital writing involves different modes of representation combining text, audio, video, still images, animation together-this multimedia writing environment can capture learners’ attention and interest and suits learners’ different learning styles.

5. What are the things that you should take into consideration to employ digital writing for teaching academic writing?
          The things that you should take into consideration to employ digital writing for teaching academic writing is worried about using the symbolic abbreviations, grammatical rules and the errors that student made regarding punctuation.

6. Which activity do you like most? Why?
          According to the article, I like “activity 6: Role Play” most because in this activity the teacher assigns the students take on a role and act out the scene as though it were real along within the context of the story. Every student has a role to play, helping to use creativity, designing shows within their own group, and show in front of the classroom which make this activity interesting and fun.

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