In the article, the researchers had the students record some of their language learning experience through e-journaling. The students were to focus on the strategies that they used in order to complete their assigned speech acts. I think it could be very beneficial for students to think about the different strategies they use when learning, but I don't think it was more beneficial for them to e-journal that information instead of just writing it down. It is nice in a way though that both the researchers and the students have an online resource they can go back and reference. Sometimes paper copies get misplaced or thrown away.
Another way e-journaling could be fun and helpful for EFL students in particular is to give them pen-pals from the states that they can e-mail back and forth. I know they could just do this on paper as well, but e-mailing would save on a lot of postage, the conversations would be quicker so they would have time to write more, and they would always have a saved document of their entire conversation. They could use this to see the progress in their own writing as well as reference things that were mentioned in past conversations.
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1 year ago
Hey Bailey. That's a cool writing assignment and potentially very engaging for students assuming they get matched with someone with some similar interests. Do you think that it helps with oral language skills?
ReplyDeleteWell, I think advancing in any skill consequently benefits the other ones. In any direct way though, I would say no. It is definitely focused on improving writing skills.
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