HOW TO IMPROVE WRITING SKILL WITH ICT

HOW TO IMPROVE WRITING SKILL WITH ICT

1. Digital literacies

   • Here is the integration of the game (mafia wars - Facebook game) and composition as a way to develop students' writing practices.
     • Through the use of games in composition instruction, bridges can be built between student interests and help develop academic writing purposes.

2. Mobile technology - genre approach to work with writing skills

   • The Functional Systemic Linguistic (FSL), Genre Pedagogical Approach (GPA), and mobile learning concepts were employed as theoretical framework.
     • The main objective of Functional Systemic Linguistics is to know how language works in particular contexts and cultural backgrounds that allow us to understand what happens in the context
     • In the genre approach, language is a dynamic and open system where genres are used as a starting point to model, deconstruct and understand language

3. Mobile tools

   • It features a mobile tool design to help beginner to intermediate learners improve their English writing skills.
     • It provides two types of learning mode: 1) students select grammar categories for which the tool provides a brief description and exercise questions, and 2) they choose one of the suggested sentences and write a corresponding English sentence to be evaluated and provided instructive feedback.

4. Microblogging tool

   • The tool serves as a means of revealing your growth as writers and enhancing the writing process by incorporating formal writing.
     • Eight themes were used as codes for the writing sample rubrics: explore, investigating, gathering data, brainstorm, organizing, defining, redefining, connecting, and citing.