IMPROVE WRITING IN ESL TEACHING

IMPROVE WRITING IN ESL TEACHING

1. Digital Gaming Literacies:Facebook Gaming

   • Facebook, gaming, and composition literaciesFacebook
     • They socialize with friends, express themselves to their discourse communities, procrastinate from doing work,and participate in gaming.
   • wars mafia
     • It a game where characters can be created
       • students improve their writing by interacting with visual and written rhetoric
         • students learning the most effective ways of communicating with their friends on Facebook.
           • we can teachstudents how to collaborate, analyze, think critically, and recognize visual cues.

2. MOBILE LEARNING

   • Teaching languages especially foreign languages assisted by computers or CALL (Computer-Assisted Language Learning) and by mobile device or MALL (Mobile-Assisted Language Learning)
     • mobile learning refers to the acquisition of knowledge through mobile devices.
       • Conten must be short and light
         • “Podcasts” (audio or video files transmitted through Internet)
         • to Halliday and Hassan (1976), coherence is defined as the meaning relations existing within a text.
           • The genres used
             • personal recounts, autobiography and short story
               • Its purpose is for entertainment or to deal with an issue.
                 • Aspects evaluated
                   • Genre Structure
                   • Text Unit- Cohesion
                   • Spelling and Punctuation
                     • Grammatical Aspects
           • The intention was to distinguish which aspects (steps of the genre structure, text unit, graphology and spelling) had improved.
             • The study revealed learning about the structure of types of texts.

3. Microblogs

   • serve as a major component of social networks such as Edmodo
     • Microblogging consists of short, concise works of writing whether for social or academic purposes and differs from blogs.
       • Student prefer microblogglng to bloggings
         • He students are in constantly interaction
   • To show their growth as writers and improve the writing the process when incorporating formal writing
     • Many advance were found in students that used the tool
       • Edmodo is a tool that let to the students to edit and re-edit
         • The participants began with strengths in brainstorming, organizing, defining, redefining and gathering data