“What Up” and “TQM”: English Learners Writing on Facebook to Acquire English and Express Their Latina/o Identities

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Author(s): Mary Amanda Stewart (Texas Woman’s University, USA)
Copyright: 2014
Pages: 17
Source title: Exploring Technology for Writing and Writing Instruction
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Kristine E. Pytash (Kent State University, USA)and Richard E. Ferdig (Research Center for Educational Technology - Kent State University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4341-3.ch019

Keywords: Digital Communications / Educational Technologies / Information Science Reference / Media & Communications

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Previous scholarship demonstrates that immigrant students are using digital technologies for unique purposes in their out-of-school writing. This study explores the writing on Facebook of four Latina/o immigrant youth who are English Learners. The findings show that the participants write on Facebook to further their English acquisition and express their Latina/o identities in ways not accessible to them in school. Their purposes for writing demonstrate there is much academic potential in leveraging social networking for in-school writing instruction for immigrant students.

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