📝💻📲 Digital Writing🖊🖍🖌
Digital writing is becoming a standard way of life for young learners within Generation M. Generation M Millennial students .The fact that this group of young learners views computers and technology as a part of their everyday lives, and who rapidly and abundantly consumes information in different ways from how previous generations has led to their unique learning style (Prensky, 2001). The ways that computers and technology have become basic needs for Generation M have given rise to digital writing as the medium to communicate with each other. Their writing, therefore, does not follow the conventions of what is considered traditional writing. Rather, it is less formal, often has conversational style, involves shorthand, is less focused on grammar and writing patterns, and sometimes features images and audio
⭐️ Types of Digital Writing📌
Over the past decade, increasing numbers of digital writing tools have emerged within the field of teaching writing. Three major tools are reviewed as a source for teaching writing: blogs, instant messaging and social network sites.
📕📗Digital Writing: Some Concerns on Academic Writing📘📙
Although digital writing provides many advantages in writing teaching and learning, many English teachers are still concerned that its specific register such as shorthand and emoticons may yield negative impact to many teen users. In particular, digital writing discourse is an informal, speaking style of language which is full of shorthand, abbreviations, and emoticons. This specific discourse register has been continually debated among scholars whether or not it can harm young Generation M learners’ academic discourse.
On the one hand, English teachers and scholars are worried that these easy-to- use symbolic abbreviations will likely deconstruct verifiable grammatical rules. They also complain about teen’s use of digital writing, especially when using IM, that teens often use a language “style” in their academic writing. For example, teachers found students’ papers with shorthand words, characters like ‘&’, and inappropriate capitalization and punctuation
👉🏼👉🏻As mentioned earlier, digital writing offers numerous benefits to writing instruction. Yet, the impact of digital writing on learners’ learning depends on how effectively teachers integrate these Internet-based writing environments into their teaching as a supplementary activity. This is not to say that digital writing can solve students’ problems in language proficiency, but it definitely can raise students’ motivation and create another attractive and interactive writing environment. It proposes another channel to write English more freely. Therefore, it promotes students to use English communicatively and meaningfully. This, however, does not imply that digital writing can replace conventional, academic writing learning. This digital writing does not enhance learning on its own; however, its effectiveness lies in the way the activities are planned and carried out within the framework of the syllabus of a course. It is the teachers’ responsibility to learn how to use this environment in order to design optimal conditions for the students’ performance.
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