Online Language Learning for Addressing Hong Kong Tertiary Students' Needs in Academic Writing
Online Language Learning for Addressing Hong Kong Tertiary Students' Needs in Academic Writing
Volume 2 Number 2, Autumn 2011 pp. 44-65(22)
Research Article
2011/9/1
Webster, Jonathan; Chan, Angela; Lee, John
Research has suggested that students learn better in an e-learning environment, and e-learning has been widely implemented in the teaching of English for academic purposes. In this article, we present a web-based e-learning environment which provides subject teachers and language tutors with a platform of collaboration to improve students' English writing ability, by providing human feedback on the language of the assignments set by their subject teacher. In particular, this article describes the rationale and the implementation of the system in detail. The article also introduces a learner corpus developed from the written work collected from the system and reports some observations from preliminary studies based on the corpus. By using naturalistic data, we believe that the corpus is able to provide a more complete picture of Hong Kong tertiary students' needs in academic writing, and make a contribution to the research and pedagogy of academic writing.
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