An abstract to ASIA TEFL Conference

Hi mates

The following is the abstract I sent to an ASIA TEFL conference (http://www.asiateflphil.org/) for teaching presentation and I have no Idea whether it would be acepted or not. However, as the topic of the conference also includes the use of IT in ESL class, so I challenged my self to write the abstract about the use of three different technologies in teaching writing, emails, word Processors and blogs. Who knows it would work?.

This teaching program is especially designed to teach writing for intermediate learners in secondary school. The integration of email, word processor and blog in the teaching and learning of writing aims at increasing the learners’ motivation, confidence and skills to write with computers, connected with the internet. The pedagogical values in this teaching method include: promoting learners’ autonomy, research skill, peer reviews, colaborative works,  digital literacy and critical thinking.The learning objectives to achieve after the end of the session would be learners are expected to able to a) write a short essay about their chosen topics, b) gather information about the topic they would choose from a variety of sources, i.e. observation, websites, interview or personal reflection, c) use word processor to write their findings, d) use email to send their draft to their peers, e) use track change to give feedback/ review their friends’ work, f) revise their own draft after getting feedback form their friends, g) post their final draft on blog, h) add additional feature son their blogs, i.e. images, audio or video files, i) give comment on their friends’ posting on the blog, and j) express their viewpoints or personal feeling about the whole teaching and learning activities. Lastly, before starting the program, it will be assumed that all the learners have had their own emails and the class has already created a class blog.

Key words: Teaching Writing, Emails, Word processor, Blog, Pedagogical Values


Source: https://moodle.uowplatform.edu.au/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=20467

Well...call for paper has been closed a few months before I submitted the abstract. By the way the committee asked me to come to join the conference, but I don't think it is worth attending if I cannot present my article...