In this week, I also learned about technology to teach writing. I got it, that actualy we can enable technology in each skill of learning language. Also, there are many technology that provide writing learning. The most familiar and popular is blog. Before that, I want to give brief explanation about the role of writing in SLA. According to Chen (2010), writing and reading has similar function which both of them share the same cognitive and social process.
In writing, students learn how to interpreting and constructing meaning from text. There are many specific areas of writing, for instance academic writing or relfective writing. Thus, in writing there also four main focuses; form-focused approach, process-foccused approach, content-based approach, reader/audience-dominated approach. Good writing is depend on what focus we want to concern.
In form-focused approach, the famous techniques is drill and practice. In the internet, there are a lot website that provide excersice of drill and practice. For instance, ESL Blue, Guide to Grammar and Writing.
Process focussed Approach concern more on process and emphasize learned-centered task in which students feel free to control their own writing, how they write it, and evaluate it. Here students are allowed to have multiple drafts and do many editing until they feel their writing is good. Students can use computer and email to ask for revision to the teachers.
Content-based Approach focus on contents. There are also many website that provide many collection of good lesson plan, such as encyclopedia.com. The last is reader/audience-dominated approach. It means that put all the focuse above to get greater attention to the readers.
There are some blogs that can make students enjoy writing in the internet. For example are blogspot, wordpress, tumblr, and wigg. Each of them has different characteristics. Blogspot is the easiest blog to facilitate a new begginer of bloger. It’s because there are a lot of choices and we can use simple html code. We put it anything in simple way, just click and it will appears. I use blogspot since I was in junior high school. The setting is not complicated and it can look like a professional blog if we add some widget there.
Writing with technology is more fun rather than write by pencils. Because there also some correction if we misspelled some words. That’s all about my reflection in this week. Sayonaraaa~
Hi Momo...
ReplyDeleteWhat a nice posting...n.n
Anyway... Could you tell about about the advantages using technology for practice student's writing skill instead of using traditional way? I'd like to know your opinion...
Thank you...n.n
Kyaa Mou.. that is right I think blog and such things really support for education not only in writing, as we've done here in SSE. As I've experienced I start to like writing. But in your opinion, what should teacher master in order to maximize the use blog (etc) for teaching writing?
ReplyDeleteif we look at PETA assignment (writing) for us, is it included into In Form-Focused or process focused approach? which one approach is the better?
ReplyDelete@ weni: in traditional way which is use paper and pencil, we correct our writing personally, I mean you have to be careful read it all again. but if we use computer, our writing can be corrected automatically
ReplyDelete@ein: I am sorry but I don't really get what you mean. Maybe teacher should master how to use blog first.. teacher can ask the students to write and update or upgrade the blog (like what Mr. Teguh asks us now HAHA) so, the students along the time be familiar with blog.
@icha: HAHAHA LOL! okay umm.. according to the handbook of what I wrote above, form-focused approach emphasize on drill and practice (focus on form and grammar) in PETA we don't do drill and practice and yet it also focus on grammar. It's also included on process-focused approach which means we can control what we write. So, I also confuse what it is HAHA. What do you think???
somehow, nothing better. All is better according to how and when we use it :DDD