Turnitin and peer review in ESL academic writing classrooms

Despite the benefits of peer review, there are still challenges that need to be addressed to make it more effective for L2 students. With the development of technology, computer-mediated peer review has captured increasing attention from L2 writing researchers and instructors. While Turnitin is known for its use in detecting plagiarism, its newly developed module, PeerMark, aims to facilitate peer review. In this article, we share our experience of using Turnitin for peer review in an ESL academic writing course and discuss its advantages, its limitations, and how different features of PeerMark may be used to address some of the challenges identified in previous research on peer review in the L2 writing classroom. Throughout a semester, the students were required to complete three peer review tasks through Turnitin. Based on the instructor’s experience and the students’ reports, we found that Turnitin could help shift students’ attention from local to global issues in writing, scaffold students in their effort to provide more helpful comments and to make connections between specific suggestions and holistic advice for writing, and facilitate classroom management during peer review

Two decades of research in L2 peer review

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Expectations eclipsed in foreign language education: learners and educators on an ongoing journey / edited by Hülya Görür-Atabaş, Sharon Turner.

Between June 2-4, 2011 Sabancı University School of Languages welcomed colleagues from 21 different countries to a collaborative exploration of the challenging and inspiring journey of learners and educators in the field of language education.\ud \ud The conference provided an opportunity for all stakeholders to share their views on language education. Colleagues met with world-renowned experts and authors in the fields of education and psychology, faculty and administrators from various universities and institutions, teachers from secondary educational backgrounds and higher education, as well as learners whose voices are often not directly shared but usually reported.\ud \ud The conference name, Eclipsing Expectations, was inspired by two natural phenomena, a solar eclipse directly before the conference, and a lunar eclipse, immediately after. Learners and educators were hereby invited to join a journey to observe, learn and exchange ideas in orde

An investigation into the epistemologies assumed by English language secondary education teachers in Greece and their impact on English language learners' collaborative construction of learning in web 2.0. settings: An exploratory case study

This study explores the emerging epistemologies of EFL language teachers in the context of Edmodo digital platform which is a web 2.0. tool in secondary education in Greece and the impact of these epistemologies on EFL students’ collaborative learning. In this thesis, a general picture of the current situation is depicted based on data obtained from the EFL teachers’ and students’ questionnaires, interviews and participant observations. The main goal of this thesis is to propose an alternative look to English language teaching which occurs with the incorporation of web 2.0. tools mainly as a means of urging EFL students to discover peers’-based learning. The findings indicate that the epistemologies assumed by the EFL teachers affect their teaching practices that are employed by them. It also reflects the conscious effort of the English language practitioners to move away from an autocratic, know it all stance, and focus on the learners as experts and legitimate holders of their reality. This entails a closer inspection of the learner-based reality which is best captured within the boundaries of Edmodo digital platform- based community whereby issues of immediate interests to the learners are accessed and analysed. There seems to be a desire on the part of the EFL teachers to forge an establishment of a learning community with the same concerns and a common goal. Also there seems to be a partial transformation of the role of the EFL practitioners to catalyse the reflection process, to contextualize matters of concerns and to forge a learning community in order to reach a consensual meaning that is gauged to their learners’ immediate needs. The findings raise implications for Language Learning Educational Policy in Greece, as well as the EFL teachers themselves

Research Trends in English Language Teacher Education and English Language Teaching

Research Trends in English Language Teacher Education and English Language Teaching presents a collection of articles about principled review of recent research conducted in the field of ELT and English language teacher education. This resource will be of interest to novice and experienced researchers who would like to see an overview of recent research trends in the field. The collection of research would hopefully shed light on themes and line of research along with implications and suggestions for further research. Each chapter examines studies published in prominent journals in the recent years and attempts to classify them in terms of focused topics, methodology and findings. The edited collection of research is a product of an international research group in the field of English language teacher education formed by Gazi University (Ankara, Turkey), the University of Évora (Évora, Portugal), Pomeranian University (Słupsk, Poland), and Boğaziçi University (Istanbul, Turkey). Research Trends in English Language Teacher Education and English Language Teaching is produced as part of the Erasmus+ project titled ILTERG, "International Language Teacher Education Research Group" (no. KA203-035295), funded by the Turkish National Agency and co- founded by Erasmus+. We would like to thank several other authors from different universities who have contributed to this work of international collaboration and we hope Research Trends in English Language Teacher Education and English Language Teaching could help teacher educators and novice researchers to benefit from the insightful findings of recent research trends collected in the book

Benefits and Implications of Integrating Technology in EFL Teaching and Learning

This document discloses the significance of technology in today’s English teaching and learning fields. Intended to enhance English teaching procedures, ICT improves English acquisition by allowing teachers and students to organize, plan, and innovate their lessons with greater effectiveness. Nonetheless, ICT also presents a range of problems that institutions, instructors, and students must face. To sum up, ICT is a valuable ally for enhancing English acquisition, but it also needs a number of components in order to be effective.Information and Communications Technology (ICT) may bring to English teaching and learning both benefits and implications. Given the wide range of material available on this topic around the world, top references from authors analyzing ICT in EFL and ELT contexts were selected. These references were qualitatively examined by extracting data from texts, repositories, and academic journals. Diverse studies, mostly in Indonesia, Morocco, Asia, and Colombia, will reveal the consequences of using technology in EFL and ELT contexts, considering the authors’ findings. The monograph is an examination of 40 key sources that were consulted and also emphasizes the use of ICT in EFL and ELT fields. The purpose of this document was not only to highlight the advantages of using technology to teach English, but also some of its potential drawbacks identifying the challenges that teachers, students, and institutions must overcome when implementing ICT in English teaching and learning. In the final analysis, it was concluded that incorporating technology into the classroom may inspire and grab students’ interest. Nevertheless, for technology to be successful in the context of EFL and ELT, it has to be designed, planned, and used with expertise. Keywords: Education in EFL an ELT, Technology for teaching English, Virtual environments, Methodologies for didactics in EFL, Teaching and learning foreign language