| Autor: |
Annamalai, Nagaletchimee, Eng, Tan Kok, Abdullah, Amelia |
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Malaysian Journal of Distance Education; Dec2013, Vol. 15 Issue 2, p1-17, 17p |
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The main aim of this exploratory study is to investigate how the use of an online narrative writing platform enhances students' narrative writing. The popular social networking site Facebook was used as an attempt to transform the freely available social space into a tool for teaching and learning narrative writing. Students were instructed to create their narrative writing sample based on Labov and Waletzky's (1967) narrative structure. The research questions for this study are as follows: (1) What are the scores of students' online narrative essays before and after their engagement in the online narrative writing platform? (2) How do the students perform in the microstructures of their essays? (3) How do the students perform in the macrostructures of their essays? Although this study basically employed a qualitative, case-study research methodology, simple counts of numerical values denoting the students' scores of improvement in the quality of their writing were also used. Six Year 10 students from a Chinese Secondary School in the state of Penang participated in this study. Data sources included written assignments collected from an initial writing task, essays written before and after online interactions on the platform and essays from the final task. Additionally, interviews were conducted to explain and supplement the quantitative scores. Overall, the findings show that the use of the online narrative writing platform improved micro and macro aspects of students' narrative essays. The findings of this study have implications for the teaching and learning of writing skills in a webbed environment, especially in Malaysia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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