CALL developing writing skills using study skills success software

CALL developing writing skills using study skills success software

1. Writing skills involves:

   • - Audience
   • Information
   • Tone
   • Language
   • Lenght

2. ¨ Writing a thinking proccess in the sense that one writes to externalize one´s thought both as a way to express those thoughts to others¨ Pennington (1995)

3. Word Proccessing programs

   • Transform computer into sophisticated and flexiblewriting aid
     • Improve writting and attitude towards it.
   • Useful practice for guided and free writing
   • MSWORD tools
     • Spell checking
     • Grammar checking
     • Thesaurus
     • Dictionary
     • Synonym and antonym

4. CALL systems in languages

   • Shift of pedagogical methods
   • from traditional teacher centered to a versatile method student centered.