Using Blogs in the Language Classroom

by Melissa J. Enns Modern digital media technology is creating exciting new opportunities for education. Given my research on using blogging to merge research and practice in language education, today I will discuss the use of blogs as a pedagogical tool in language classrooms. On the surface, blogs provide learners with excellent forums for reading …

What role does group work actually play in language learning?

By Melissa J. Enns Spoken language production has been a recurring theme in recent posts on oral corrective feedback and in guest contributor Jihoon Kim's examination of off-task behaviour. Each of these posts has touched on the topic of pair or group work. Perhaps many of us have never stopped to consider why we use pair/group work or …

Kicking Things Off

Welcome to my thesis blogging project! If you have recently followed this blog in response to an invitation to participate, thank you and welcome! If you've been following for a while or just happen to be reading this one post, I'm glad that you're here! To kick things off, I thought it would be useful …