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Microblogging on Twitter: Social Networking in the Italian Classroom
Enza Antenos-ConfortiMontclair State University
Follow me @iVenus (my PLN); @profeac
Twitter in L2 Education?
Can social networking be transformed to educational networking?
Proposed by academHacK(David Parry)
Social Networking as Educational Networking
Twitter is computer-mediated communication that engages students in:
communicationcollaboration a constructivist learning environment
Digital Conversation “Twitter-Style”
Where?When?Who?
Mobile & Web-based
Synchronous & Asynchronous
Openness & M
ultiple Publics
Building a language community…
…that includes native speakers
Students will…engage in synchronous & asynchronous CMC
engage in individual & community language use
The Learning Potential of Twitter
Additional advantage…
Students can…belong to the classroom & beyond…into the target language culture
Expectations: The SyllabusOn Twitter each week, I expect you to do two things: 1. post short messages on your Twitter.com account twice a week (on 2 of the 3 weekdays
we do not have class--Tuesday, Thursday, or Friday). You will be limited to 140 characters in total, including spaces & punctuation. This is so you can practice
writing about your routine within text limitations. 2. to comment on someone else's tweet (entry on Twitter) once a week.
Example:Let's say PINCO's tweet says: Sabato ho visto il film “I am legend”
You can reply to PINCO as follows: @PINCO voglio vederlo anch'io. Ti è piaciuto?
You must comment to only one person per week to receive full credit. Once you get used to the reply feature, it becomes second nature.
Findings: Twitter as Social Media
Did not like it
Neutral
Liked it
Loved it
2
9
8
3
3
11
2
Findings: Tweet Updates
Tweets69%
Replies31%
Findings: Distribution of Replies
Ital-ians 14%
Stu-dents
in other sec-tions 15%
Classmates 46%
Teacher/Researcher 25%
Findings: Tweets are…
self-perpetuatinggenerativeauthentic
Findings: Tweet Topics
Findings: Twitterers…
interpret inputproduce output engage in conversations Good morning, is it cold?
What’s the weather like?
Good morning, yesterday makes* beautiful. Today is cold. What’s the weather like there?
Sorry for the late (reply)! Here it’s humid and there is fog this evening.
Unexpected Findings 1Good language practiceIncreased appreciation for language and cultureExperiential learning
Unexpected Findings 2
Unexpected Findings FA08
Introduced to Twitter in FA08Tweeted in Italian for 7 months, after course endedNow a bilingual twitterer
Further Investigations:E-twinning in L2 (SP09)
Further Investigations: The Twitter Backchannel
in the L2 Classroom (FA09)
Links/Images
Twitter in italianohttp://blog.twitter.com/2009/12/ed-ecco-litaliano.html
Twitter bird and bookshttp://www.distance-education.org/Articles/Top-75-College-Education-Tweets-133.html
Elements of Digital Conversationhttp://www.mikearauz.com/2009/04/elements-of-digital-conversation.html
How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live (Time Magazine, June 2009) http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1902604,00.html
Elements of Digital Conversationhttp://www.mikearauz.com/2009/04/elements-of-digital-conversation.html
Twitter bird and book: http://www.distance-education.org/Articles/Top-75-College-Education-Tweets-133.html
How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live (Time Magazine, June 2009) http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1902604,00.html
Grazie! Thank you!
Enza Antenos-Conforti, PhDDepartment of Spanish & Italian
Montclair State [email protected]