Unit 2- How to improve writings skills through the use of ICT

Unit 2- How to improve writings skills through the use of ICT

1. Improving writing literacies through digital gaming literacies: facebook gaming in the composition class room.

   • As new technologies emerge, digital literacies are transformed through social networks used especially by new generations.
     • Students can develop skills and learn to relate social media with the information they generate to build new knowledge.
       • Facebook games and composition literacies: through this social network students connect the literacies they use in these sites in composition courses, they can also play games.
       • Commitment, problem solving and collaboration: these skills for games can also be applied in class when reading and writing.
       • Additional disadvantages of the game: games and digital media are usually a distraction for the student, in turn provides entertainment that corresponds to learning.
       • Additional tasks: students consider the cultural aspects of the game focusing on the audience it addresses and the ideologies used.

2. The writing abilities can improve with the support of mobile technology in a short period of time.

3. Mobile learning to improve writing in elsl teaching

   • Mobile learning: for the teaching of a foreing language can be used computer- assisted language learning and mobile- assisted language learning.
     • The fuctional systemic approach: conceives language as a resource to build, elaborate and axplain meanings inmersed in the social and cultural context.
       • Genre pedagogical approach: former pedagogies to approach the study of this ability emphasized on the form of the text.
         • Method: subjects were selected taking into account their availability to participate in the research experience.
         • Findings and discussing: the writing production of the participant was analyzed in relation to linguistic patterns.

4. A mobile based learning tool to improve writings skills of efl learners

   • The devices present high capabilities from which human life greatly benefits.
     • Error analysis of english writings created by EFL learners.: the result of analyzing the errors in particular is a valuable source of information since it presents the transitional state of the learners weakness as well as competence.
       • Mobile based english learning tool: the errors are divided into:
         • Systematic errors: can easily be described using a set of rules.
         • Non systematic: ones are usually categorized as idiosyncratic and cannot be generalized.

5. Harnessing technology to asses oral communication in business english

   • Motivating, promoting and assessing oral communication skills in relatively large business english classes poses a number of challenges.
   • Context of the study
   • Main focus of the research
   • The action research process