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Direct linkYasuda, Sachiko – Journal of Second Language Writing, 2011
This study examines how novice foreign language (FL) writers develop their genre awareness, linguistic knowledge, and writing competence in a genre-based writing course that incorporates email-writing tasks. To define genre, the study draws on systemic functional linguistics (SFL) that sees language as a resource for making meaning in a particular…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Linguistics, Second Language Learning, Writing (Composition)
Peer reviewedSchmitt, Lothar M.; Christianson, Kiel T. – System, 1998
Describes the justification for design and implementation of a UNIX-based computer-assisted language-instruction system using a network of workstations containing functions useful for instructors and students as well as researchers. The present investigation is aimed at teaching writing to Japanese students at the University of Aizu in Japan.…
Descriptors: College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Electronic Mail, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedFedderholdt, Karen – ELT Journal, 2001
Describes a recent email writing project between nonnative speakers of English. The project was carried out by a group of Japanese university students, and a group of Danish students preparing for university entrance examinations. Explains the reasons for choosing to use email in writing classes and why nonnative speakers were chosen. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, College Students, Computer Mediated Communication, Cultural Exchange
Schmitt, Lothar M.; Christianson, Kiel T. – 1999
Pedagogical features and implementation of a UNIX-based management system (UNIEM) designed to support the instructor in teaching English as a second language using a network of workstations are described. The application discussed here is for teaching English composition to students at the University of Aizu (Japan). UNIEM is constructed to assist…
Descriptors: Assignments, Classroom Techniques, College Instruction, Computer Assisted Instruction
Download full textIshihara, Shinobu – 1996
An approach to teaching English writing to Japanese high school students that focuses on writing for communication is described. First, communicative writing is defined. Next, a central concern of writing in Japan, the notion of audience, is discussed and two ways of categorizing audiences (real vs. imagined and "safe" vs.…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Miyao, Mariko – 1996
A project using on-campus electronic mail (e-mail) to teach communicative writing in English as a Second Language to Japanese junior college students is described. The project had three stages: (1) planning; (2) piloting with a small group of students; and (3) implementation in three large classes (n=55, 28, 36). The aim was to help students write…
Descriptors: Class Size, Classroom Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages), Computer Literacy
