Writing on the Web
Sebah Al-AliOne of the commonly faced challenges with iPads in our language classrooms is finding ways to suitably use iPads to facilitate and practice writing skills. In a previous post, we looked into ways to enhance students’ typing skills (link), but that still doesn’t help in changing our ways to introduce writing tasks.
Robert Godwin-Jones (2008) discusses the topic of teaching and practicing writing skills using web tools. He covers a few tools that offer ways to produce and to assess writing tasks online. He explains these tools can help create a suitable electronic environment for writing tasks.
To read this interesting article, you can view it here:
Emerging Technologies Web–Writing 2.0: Enabling, Documenting, and Assessing Writing Online
To view other interesting language and technology articles, you can browse the journal itself. It covers a wide range of topics and research projects that you might find interesting.
