Writing

Teaching Expressive Writing to Students with Learning Disabilities

Author: 
Gersten Russell, Scott Baker, and Lana Edwards
Study looking at which interventions and components were found to be most effective in improving the writing of students with learning disabilities, and what is the strength of their effects?

"What Happens When Students Use Text-to-Speech and Word Predict Programs to Compose Text?"

Author: 
Diane DeMott Painter
Small research study to examine benefits of students with disabilities using two different text-to-speech programs.

Blogging in the Language Classroom: It Doesn't "Simply Happen"

Author: 
Carla Arena & Casa Thomas Jefferson

In this 5 page article (I printed it - oops!) the author gives her opinion of the usefulness of blogging within the EFL classroom. However she proceeds to say that 'blogging doesn't just happen' and that students need to be taught how to blog etc.

Blogging for ELT. Teaching English

Author: 
Graham Stanley

This article takes a look at blogging, which is becoming increasingly popular as a language learning tool. It gives an overview of blogging websites, suggests why you might want to use them, and gives some practical advice on setting up blogs for use with your own classes.

Blogging in the Language Classroom: It Doesn't "Simply Happen"

Author: 
Carla Arena

This paper describes the importance of guiding students to use blogs (Web logs) for educational purposes. While blogs are commonly thought of as "simply happening," in fact, educators in a media literate world need to rethink and redefine best practices for using this tool.

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