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 …

Corrective Feedback and Linguistic Ideologies

By Jihoon Kim and Melissa Enns The scholarly discussion surrounding corrective feedback (CF) has mainly focused on how to correct, when to correct, what to correct, and who should correct errors (for an overview, see Elllis, 2017). What is often missing in this discussion is the social dimension of CF. That is, when a teacher …

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 …