Social media in EFL teaching. Promoting (oral) communication skills in complex competency tasks.

Autor/inn/en	Wiemeyer, Leonie; Zeaiter, Sabrina
Titel	Social media in EFL teaching. Promoting (oral) communication skills in complex competency tasks.
Quelle	In: Dutch journal of applied linguistics, 4 (2015) 2, S. 193-211 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Abbildungen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2211-7245; 2211-7253
DOI	10.1075/dujal.4.2.04wie
Schlagwörter	Ausdrucksfähigkeit; Kommunikation; Lernen; Aufgabenorientierung; Computerunterstützter Unterricht; Mündlicher Ausdruck; Sprechen; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Englischunterricht; Soziales Netzwerk
Abstract	This article presents an approach to fostering (oral) communication skills in L2 English using social media. It proposes that social media provide a setting for synchronous and asynchronous oral CMC and can be a motivating environment for communicative tasks in the lingua franca English as adolescent learners are used to participating online, both in written and spoken modes. This can be exploited in complex competency tasks in which learners are exposed to real-life discourse and the associated linguistic challenges. Complex competency tasks can provide a framework for web-based language learning and facilitate the development of oral communicative competencies. Among the implications for teaching discussed are sensible embedding in tasks, potential issues of student participation and motivation, and the authenticity of the environments. The article concludes that social media provide a fruitful platform for combining web-based and task-based language and media learning in (semi-)authentic contexts in complex competency tasks. (Verlag).
Erfasst von	Informationszentrum für Fremdsprachenforschung, Marburg
Update	2022/2