Social Media in L2 Education: Exploring On-Line Collaborative Writing in EFL Settings

Autor/in	Martínez-Carrasco, Robert
Titel	Social Media in L2 Education: Exploring On-Line Collaborative Writing in EFL Settings
Quelle	(2018), (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Social Media; Second Language Learning; English (Second Language); Collaborative Writing; Electronic Learning; Web 2.0 Technologies; Cultural Awareness; Foreign Countries; Student Projects; College Students; Intercultural Communication; Nonformal Education; Focus Groups; Peer Teaching; Interviews; Spain + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Soziale Medien; Zweitsprachenerwerb; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität; Ausland; Schulprojekt; Collegestudent; Interkulturelle Kommunikation; Non-formal education; Non formal education; Nichtformale Bildung; Peer group teaching; Peer Group Teaching; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Spanien
Abstract	This paper presents a classroom experience regarding the use of wikis in L2 collaborative writing settings. Framed in the current post-positivist educational climate in higher education, the adoption of wikis as a Technology-Enhanced Language Learning (TELL) platform complements and enriches the classroom-based interaction of L2 learners. While developing solid L2 writing and self-expression skills, wikis may be said to foster other related core abilities--reading and comprehension, critical thinking, exegetic skills, integration of culture-specific elements in foreign language learning, and use of new technologies, etc. In the process of drafting culture-bound texts, the co-creating students become aware of the weight of cultural elements in their texts in an asynchronous, cross-cultural communication process, and they are able to bridge the cultural divide not only through non-formal, peer-to-peer learning, but also through empowered cross-cultural understanding in a truly emancipating English as a Foreign Language (EFL) setting. [For the complete volume, "Innovative Language Teaching and Learning at University: Integrating Informal Learning into Formal Language Education," see ED585162.] (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01