week 10

🍎Digital Writing: Enhancing Ways of Teaching and Learning Writing🍎

Problems in Writing Class: Struggling Writers
This group of struggling writers is often less motivated to write and fails to organize their ideas. These learners usually have poor handwriting.

Digital Writing
Digital Writing is becoming a standard way of life for young learners within Generation M. 
Digital writing as the medium to communicate with each other.

Types of Digital Writing              
- Blogs
- Instant Messaging (IM)
- Social network site (SNS)


Characteristics of Digital Writing: Features that Support Struggling Writers

            Digital writing has distinctive characteristics and strengths. Many researchers report positive findings of digital communication application on various aspects related to language learning. First, many digital writing provide opportunities for users to use nicknames or pseudonyms. Second, learners want to communicate to the group or readers.The learners can view their language message as they produce them So, learners or those who have problems with spelling and low command of vocabulary. Finally, digital is  flexible for teachers to modify contexts to suit learner's language needs and interests.

Activities for Teaching Writing with Digital Writing

- Affiliate Group Chat
- Guess Who
- Scavenger
- Little Reporter
- Secret Admirer
- Role Play
- Peer Feedback
- Closed Group Community

Digital Writing: Some Concerns on Academic Writing
Many English teachers are still concerned that its specific register such as shorthand and emoticons.