Comics, Crowdsourcing and Up-Votes: EFL on the Front Page of the Internet

Autor/inn/en	York, James; Stiller, Scott
Titel	Comics, Crowdsourcing and Up-Votes: EFL on the Front Page of the Internet
Quelle	In: JALT CALL Journal, 9 (2013) 1, S.99-112 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1832-4215
Schlagwörter	Cartoons; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Teaching Methods; Technological Literacy; Social Media; Web Sites; Voting; Feedback (Response); Users (Information); Intercultural Communication; Computer Mediated Communication; Questionnaires; Student Attitudes; Asians; College Students; Foreign Countries; Emotional Response; Asynchronous Communication; Japan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Zeichentrickfilm; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Technisches Wissen; Soziale Medien; Web-Design; Abstimmung; Benutzerprofil; Nutzer; Interkulturelle Kommunikation; Computerkonferenz; Fragebogen; Schülerverhalten; Asian; Asiat; Asiatin; Asiaten; Asiate; Collegestudent; Ausland; Emotionales Verhalten
Abstract	The social-media news website "Reddit" boasts a huge readership with over 35 million unique visitors for December 2011 alone. Content is generated by users, who submit links from other websites to the various sub-forums. Users also have the ability to comment on links, providing the means for a community to be developed. Both content and comments can be promoted or demoted based on a voting system. This paper focuses on the creation of a sub-forum on Reddit for the purpose of submitting the work of EFL learners, the notion being that other Reddit users, primarily native English speakers, may be crowd-sourced in order to provide feedback, comments, or corrections for students to read, and provide grounds for cross-cultural communication. Firstly we provide a detailed overview of what Reddit is. Following this, we introduce a particular type of comic that has an enormous popularity on Reddit: rage comics. Literature regarding electronic literacy, the use of comics in language learning, and computer-mediated communication is then covered. We then detail the methodology used to introduce, create and submit such comics with our learners. Lastly, we share the results of a questionnaire designed to reveal student perceptions of the project, and discuss possible considerations for future implementations. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01