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Waragai, Ikumi; Ohta, Tatsuy; Raindl, Marco; Kurabayashi, Shuichi; Kiyoki, Yasushi; Tokuda, Hideyuki – Research-publishing.net, 2015
The authors present a project that aims at understanding the way language learners write in social media in their every day lives using the target language. How do our students proceed when writing a Social Network Site (SNS) post? What resources do they use for references on word, sentences and text level? By answering these and related questions…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Social Media, Language Usage, Second Language Learning
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Sakamoto, Mitsuyo – IAFOR Journal of Language Learning, 2017
According to Swain, Kinnear, & Steinman (2011), we use a language with others as a form of shared cognition, and in the process we scaffold each other. This action research investigates how students' online written output affects each other's writing. One thousand twenty online entries written by 21 Japanese university sophomore English majors…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interaction, Teaching Methods, College Students