Developing Writing Skills Through the Use of Blogs

Abstract

This paper aims at describing an empirical research carried out in a private school in Fortaleza, Brazil, in which the production of a blog was used as an opportunity to teach writing skills in Portuguese, based on the curricular parameters for Brazilian basic education, which postulate that the teaching of Portuguese has to be based on texts. The theoretical background for this study was extracted from Schneuwly and Dolz (2004), who developed the idea of the teaching dimensions of genres. In order to accomplish our research purposes, a group of teachers from a private school in Fortaleza was invited to take part in a set of activities focused on the use of blogs as teaching tools. The present study seeks to provide a view on the potential of digital writing as a pedagogical tool for the development of discursive skills, contributing to linguistic analysis practices in the classroom. (2004) οι οποίοι ανέπτυξαν την ιδέα της διδασκαλίας των κειμενικών ειδών. Για να πετύχουμε το σκοπό της έρευνάς μας, μια ομάδα δασκάλων από το ιδιωτικό σχολείο της Fortaleza προσκλήθηκε να πάρει μέρος σε κάποιες δραστηριότητες για τη χρήση του blogs ως διδακτικό εργαλείο. Η παρούσα μελέτη επιδιώκει να δείξει μια άποψη της δυνατότητας του γραψίματος στον υπολογιστή ως παιδαγωγικό εργαλείο για την ανάπτυξη διαλογικών δεξιοτήτων, συμβάλλοντας στις πρακτικές γλωσσικής ανάλυσης στην τάξη. Λέξεις κλειδιά: Διδασκαλία, κοινωνικο-διαλογική αλληλεπίδραση, κειμενικά είδη, γραπτό κείμενο, blog Italian[Translation Manuela Delfino, Francesco Caviglia] TITOLO: Sviluppare capacità di scrittura attraverso i blog. SINTESI : Questo contributo si propone di descrivere una ricerca empirica condotta in una scuola private a Fortaleza, in Brasile, in cui la produzione di un blog è stata usata come un'opportunità per insegnare capacità di scrittura in Portoghese, basandosi sulle indicazioni curricolari dell'educazione di base brasiliana, secondo la quale l'insegnamento del Portoghese deve basarsi sui testi. Lo sfondo teorico di questo studio è derivato da Schneuwly and Dolz (2004), che hanno sviluppato l'idea delle dimensioni didattiche dei generi testuali e letterari.Per rispondere ai nostri obiettivi di ricerca, un gruppo di docenti della scuola privata di Fortaleza è stato invitato a prendere parte a un gruppo di attività focalizzate sull'uso dei blog come strumenti didattici. Questo studio si propone di fornire uno spaccato sul potenziale della scrittura digitale come uno strumento pedagogico per lo sviluppo di capacità discorsive, contribuendo alle pratiche dell'analisi linguistica in classe. PAROLE CHAIVE: insegnamento; interazionismo socio-discorsivo; genere testuale e letterario; testo scritto; blog. Polish[Translation Elżbieta Awramiuk] TITUŁ: ROZWIJANIE UMIEJĘTNOŚCI PISANIA POPRZEZ UŻYCIE BLOGÓW STRESZCZENIE: Celem niniejszego artykułu jest opisanie badań empirycznych prowadzonych w prywatnej szkole w Fortaleza, w Brazylii, w której pisanie blogów zostało wykorzystane do kształcenia umiejętności pisania w języku portugalskim, kształceni...

Utilizing the affordances of digital learning materials

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