Academic Writing in the Web 2.0 Age: Pedagogic Applications

HELÁN, Robert and Pavel SEDLÁČEK. Academic Writing in the Web 2.0 Age: Pedagogic Applications. In 15th biennial Writing Development in Higher Education (WDHE) Conference, Centre for Academic Writing, Coventry University, United Kingdom. 2014.

Basic information

• Original name: Academic Writing in the Web 2.0 Age: Pedagogic Applications
• Authors: HELÁN, Robert (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Pavel SEDLÁČEK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: 15th biennial Writing Development in Higher Education (WDHE) Conference, Centre for Academic Writing, Coventry University, United Kingdom, 2014.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Presentations at conferences
• Field of Study: Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities
• Country of publisher: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: URL
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14640/14:00075969
• Organization unit: Language Centre
• Keywords in English: academic writing; Web 2.0; tools; elearning; concordance
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

Web 2.0 is a label that is commonly applied to technologies allowing their users to actively engage in online collaboration, interaction, and two-way communication (O’Reilly, 2007; Godwin-Jones, 2008). The presentation will describe selected Web 2.0-based tools that the authors used pedagogically in their academic writing projects (publication of a student journal) and courses (for PhD students). Firstly, the Masaryk University Sketch Engine concordancer will be introduced with a focus on the way in which it enabled the students to become more independent of the instructor by displaying typical grammatical and collocational behaviours of selected words from a corpus of genre- and discipline-specific academic texts. Secondly, the use of computer-screen videos in teacher-to-student feedback will be described, which contributed to a more effective media-enhanced review of the students’ written work. Finally, specific e-learning exercises within the university’s Information System will be shown – these were created to help students master some of the lexico-grammatical aspects of academic writing. Overall, the presentation will demonstrate specific instances of the ways the above-mentioned tools were used, evaluating them in terms of their effectiveness and their limits.

Links

• CZ.1.07/2.2.00/28.0233, interní kód MU: Name: Inovace, metodika a kvalita jazykového vzdělávání a odborného vzdělávání v cizích jazycích v terciární sféře v ČR (Acronym: IMPACT)

Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR, 2.2 Higher education