How is technology changing writing instruction?
The web can provide supplementary readings and projects that can be used to introduce key methods and theories in composition studies.Currently, most of the links here include readings and articles, rather than compilations of websites, though the online composition resources will continue to develop as the site grows.
The topics addressed in this page are ones typically read, discussed, and researched in English 479: Teaching Writing in Secondary Schools, the capstone methods composition course at Western Michigan University. They will include overviews of composition instruction and key issues in composition.
The wiki is one innovative web-based technology used in collaborative writing projects. Learn more about wikis or visit the English 479 Wiki Page.
This site is designed to support these courses as they are taught at WMU. Suggestions or additions can be e-mailed to Jonathan Bush at mailto:%20jbush@wmich.edu.
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Teaching English through Computer
The first language you learn to speak is called your native language. As a baby, you listened to your parents or other people speaking and then imitated the sounds you heard. Babies seem to be born with an ability to learn the language they hear. Native speakers learn as children to use the right words and arrange them in the right order without even thinking about it. If English is your native language, you will know automatically that “ I going bed “ is wrong, but I am going to bed is right.
When you learn a second language, you have to memorize its words and learn its rules. That is why learning a second language can be difficult and it sometimes makes us frustrated. Realizing the fact, many people try to use many ways in learning English as a second language to make learning of it become easier and more joyful. One of them is by utilizing a computer as a medium which can help us learn English effectively or what we usually call it as Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL). One of the advantages of teaching English using computer is that we can learn more than the language itself, but we will be given a chance to know more about that language. There are many models of teaching English using CALL that can applied in teaching learning process such as: the audio-lingual model, the cognitive-code model, and the humanistic model.
When you learn a second language, you have to memorize its words and learn its rules. That is why learning a second language can be difficult and it sometimes makes us frustrated. Realizing the fact, many people try to use many ways in learning English as a second language to make learning of it become easier and more joyful. One of them is by utilizing a computer as a medium which can help us learn English effectively or what we usually call it as Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL). One of the advantages of teaching English using computer is that we can learn more than the language itself, but we will be given a chance to know more about that language. There are many models of teaching English using CALL that can applied in teaching learning process such as: the audio-lingual model, the cognitive-code model, and the humanistic model.
The use of personal computers in teaching English composition
It is clear that computers are essential to a course in programming, are easily used for practice in arithmetic, and are useful for simulations in an economics or sociology course, but it is not clear how, if at all, they can be used to teach the writing of English. To be sure, you could use a computer to administer a spelling drill, or a multiple choice test in punctuation—but none of this is composition. While most proposed applications in the teaching of English run to such computer assisted instruction, my experiences over the last four years have shown me that a personal computer can be a powerful aid in learning to write.
http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/800088.802822
http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/800088.802822
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