UNIT 2

UNIT 2

1. A mobile-based learning tool to improve writing skills of efl learners

   • It is a mobile-based English learning tool in improving their writing skills. They can utilize two types of learning modes the tool provides: grammar review and writing practice. The learners to be exposed to various grammatical structures and English expressions including contextual synonyms, and to study English grammar according to grammatical categories including supplementary explanations and relevant examples which does not require an instructor or tutor.

2. Exploring Classroom Microblogs to Improve Writing of Middle School Students

   • This study explored whether participants' writing changed when using a microblogging tool in Edmodo. The Inside Writing Frame served as the conceptual framework and was employed in creating the microblogs and grading rubric. Eight themes were used as codes for the writing sample rubrics: explore, investigating, gathering data, brainstorm, organizing, defining, redefining, connecting and citing. This experienced a positive change in their writing.

3. Harnessing technology to assess oral communication in business english

   • In the business realm today, oral speaking skills are equally, if not more, essential than writing. there are many students whose speaking abilities are far more superior to their writing skills, but through of Voicethread, testify that most of the students did enjoy using and their improve oral communicative.

4. Improving writing literacies through digital gamings literacies: Facebook gaming in the composition classroom

   • Through the use of gaming in composition instruction, we can build bridges between students' interest and help them develop scholarly purposes of writing. Mafia Wars functions as a vehicle to further enhance students' writing and as a way to demostrate how gameplay contributes to what students learn in composition.

5. Mobile learning to improve writing in ESL teaching

   • With the mobile learning, the learning takes place anywhere and anytime. Its implementations apparently serves not as a new way to learn languages but rather as a complement to specific learning activities in the educative context. Learning must be short and light so they allow for feedback and periodical revision due to the mobility implied.