ERIC Number: ED585178
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Publication Date: 2018
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Social Media in L2 Education: Exploring On-Line Collaborative Writing in EFL Settings
MartÃnez-Carrasco, Robert
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This paper presents a classroom experience regarding the use of wikis in L2 collaborative writing settings. Framed in the current post-positivist educational climate in higher education, the adoption of wikis as a Technology-Enhanced Language Learning (TELL) platform complements and enriches the classroom-based interaction of L2 learners. While developing solid L2 writing and self-expression skills, wikis may be said to foster other related core abilities--reading and comprehension, critical thinking, exegetic skills, integration of culture-specific elements in foreign language learning, and use of new technologies, etc. In the process of drafting culture-bound texts, the co-creating students become aware of the weight of cultural elements in their texts in an asynchronous, cross-cultural communication process, and they are able to bridge the cultural divide not only through non-formal, peer-to-peer learning, but also through empowered cross-cultural understanding in a truly emancipating English as a Foreign Language (EFL) setting. [For the complete volume, "Innovative Language Teaching and Learning at University: Integrating Informal Learning into Formal Language Education," see ED585162.]
Descriptors: Social Media, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Collaborative Writing, Electronic Learning, Web 2.0 Technologies, Cultural Awareness, Foreign Countries, Student Projects, College Students, Intercultural Communication, Nonformal Education, Focus Groups, Peer Teaching, Interviews
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Language: English
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