Microblogging

Felipe Abarca- Camila Barrera

It is the activity or practicing of making short, frequent posts to a microblog. It allows anyone with something to say to find an audience.

What is microblogging?

Audience Purpose Problem presented

Every person who is involved in social networks.

To explore the use of language play while microblogging an academically sanctioned task.

To use in an advanced grammar course considering it as a way of interaction.

This is a qualitative case study about exploring the use of language play through the use of twitter for an intensive English as a second language advanced grammar course.The students used Twitter as an instant messaging chat room, moving from the sentence to the utterance, embedding target grammar constructions in various forms of ludic language play.

Abstract

Language Play

Computer-mediated Communication

Computer-assisted language learning

Collaborative learning

Setting: Students have to use twitter during the class in a high advanced grammar course.Outcomes: To express surprise, contrast, cause/effect and hypothetical conditions. And to use verb + preposition combinations with accurate collocation and meaning.Task: ● Write 70 sentences during 7 week session.● Use the grammar structures presented in class.● Use contexts created in class or their own life experiences.

Twitter would be a useful forum for comprehensible input, comprehensible output and meaningful interaction.

Methodology

The results have been separated into three vignettes

1.-From sentence to utterance. Repetition -Verbal dueling -Rhythm

Results

2.-Word games; Free styling, Sounding Off and solidarity.

3.-Carnival, Alternative Realities and Double-voiced Discourse.

Results

Using twitter as a bounded community in educational language learning settings contributes to the building of classroom community.

Discussion

Twitter can be leveraged for collaborative learning and community building, using discursive techniques.

Conclusion

Microblogging

Felipe Abarca- Camila Barrera