🌼 1. What are the problems struggling writers have in writing classes?
📍 Many struggling writers have language difficulties.
📍 Struggling writers is often less motivated to write and fails to organize their ideas.
📍 The learners usually have poor handwriting (or has difficulty to write) and write
slowly or illegibly.
📍 They also have problems in expressing their idea through composition and sometimes have trouble communicating and understanding their teachers and peers during discussion in the classroom.
📍 Many struggling writers' primary writing problems involve a lack of confidence in producing text and insecure feelings about showing their writing to others.
🌼 2. What does 'digital writing' refer to?
💬 The term of digital writing is used to define a change in the writing environment where writing is produced on the computer, mobile phone, and tablet, and then distributed via Internet networks.
🌼 3. What are the three digital writing tools? Give brief descriptions?
💬 Blogs
A blog is a discussion, informational article or personal journal, published on the World Wide Web, which is often frequently updated. Blogs allow people to post or exchange information with no constraints on time and space.
💬 Instant Messaging (IM)
As a type of synchronous communication, Instant Messaging (IM) is a form of Internet-based, real time text communication between users on the same system.
💬 Social Network Site (SNS)
A social network site (SNS) is a website or an online service platform in which people share interest, create a public or semi-public profile, and interact with other user.
🌼 4. How has digital writing enhanced the teaching of writing?
📍 First, many digital writing applications offer an anonymity feature. They provide opportunities for users to use nicknames or pseudonyms. Synchronous computer- assisted class discussion reduces anxiety and enhances interlanguage communication.
📍 Second, in digital writing, learners actually type out what they want to communicate to the group or readers so, learners can see what their partners intend to communicate through the typed text.
📍 Third, digital writing promotes learners’ equity in terms of interaction.
📍 Next, instructors are able to keep track of learners' interaction records through the history logs with no intervention to learners while actively writing, this history log is useful for noting student's writing development over time.
📍 More importantly, digital writing offers language environments. The blog as a place to use language to engage in authentic communication instead of a place where they can learn and improve their language.
📍 Finally, since digital writing involves different modes of representation combining text, audio, video, still images, animation, and/or interactive features together-this multimedia writing environment can capture and interest and suits learners' different learning styles.
🌼 5. What are the things that you should take into consideration to employ digital writing for teaching academic writing?
💬 The things that I should take into consideration to employ digital writing for teaching academic writing is about digital writing discourse, shorthand, abbreviations, and emoticons make no sense outside of the digital writing discourse community. Thus, they should not use the digital writing discourse in the academic writing discourse. Therefore, language teachers need to educate young Generation M learners on the importance of language appropriateness.
🌼 6. Which activity do you like most? Why?
💬 The activity I like most is Guess Who because this activity allows students to guess and find people with similar interests. This gives students the opportunity to learn about their interests.
