Mobile-Assisted Writing Instruction: Affordances, Challenges, and Future Directions

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Mobile-Assisted Writing Instruction: Affordances, Challenges, and Future Directions

Description

Mobile-assisted language learning (MALL) is popular worldwide. One related issue under discussion is how to effectively harness mobile devices to help English writers. This paper first unpacks writing as a meaning making process from the perspective of systemic functional linguistics. It then summarizes the major MALL-based studies on writing instruction, including the affordances and challenges of MALL-based writing instruction. This paper then discusses how to address challenges as identified in the existing studies on MALL-based writing instruction, centering on writing as a meaning making process. The paper ends with pedagogical tips for educators who are interested in using mobile technology to comprehensively improve students’ English writing construction across different contexts.

Creator

Zhang, Xiaodong

Source

International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM); Vol. 15 No. 10 (2021); pp. 194-207
1865-7923

Publisher

International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE), Vienna, Austria

Date

2021-05-25

Rights

Copyright (c) 2021 xiaodong Zhang

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application/pdf

Language

eng

Type

info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article

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Citation

Xiaodong Zhang, Mobile-Assisted Writing Instruction: Affordances, Challenges, and Future Directions, International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE), Vienna, Austria, 2021, accessed November 22, 2024, https://igi.indrastra.com/items/show/1970

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