Promoting the Sustainable Development of Rural EFL Learners’ Email Literacy through a Facebook Project
Sustainability
; 14(10):6209, 2022.
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in English
| ProQuest Central | ID: covidwho-1871390
ABSTRACT
Promoting the sustainable development of rural EFL students’ English ability is a vital issue in the general curriculum guidelines of Taiwan’s 12-Year Basic Education. This study aimed to investigate the effects of a Facebook project on developing rural EFL learners’ email literacy in English. There were two participant groups (1) six university English majors and (2) 12 ninth-graders from a rural junior high school. The instruments included a multiple-choice awareness task (MCT), a written discourse completion task (WDCT), a perception questionnaire, interviews, and teaching journals. The university students first received a training session on email literacy, and then they taught the ninth-graders invitation email-writing through Facebook interactions for eight weeks. The results showed that after the project, the ninth-graders made significant improvements when completing the MCT. As for the quality of their emails, the ninth-graders not only scored significantly higher in the post-test but also made qualitative progress in their invitation emails. Furthermore, both participant groups had positive perceptions of this project and indicated the strengths and weaknesses of their participation. This paper concludes with pedagogical implications for English education in Taiwan.
Environmental Studies; Facebook; invitation; email; pragmatic awareness; Language; Pedagogy; Collaboration; Constructivism; Writing; Social networks; Curricula; Literacy; Colleges & universities; University students; Distance learning; Secondary school students; Social research; Students; COVID-19; Cooperative learning; Electronic mail; Classrooms; Social interaction; Sustainable development; Education; Rural areas; Middle schools; Secondary schools; Independent study; Taiwan
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ProQuest Central
Language:
English
Journal:
Sustainability
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
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