Digital Writing Tools - Teaching Argumentative Essays beyond the Traditional Frontiers

Soni T. Tandiana, Fuad Abdullah, U. Komara

2017

Abstract

Argumentative essay is a text type to convince the readers and drive them to perform an action as framed by the writers. Constructing an argument within such an essay can determine how the writers persuade and the readers are persuaded (Rex, et. al. 2010). However, insufficient experience, unsupported prior knowledge and limited access to information may be a few problematic obstacles for the students to create reasonable and convincing arguments. For this reason, this study delineated how Digital Writing Tools (DWTs) were utilized to teach and learn argumentative essays. It involved five EFL learners of an English Education Department of a University in Tasikmalaya. Classroom observations were deployed as a primary technique to collect the data. The findings revealed that the teacher and the learners performed various classroom activities while teaching and learning argumentative essays with Digital Writing Tools such as (1) teacher’s explanations of learning materials, (2) teacher’s suggestions on the students’ argumentative essays writing, (3) teacher’s exemplification of learning materials, (4) students’ arguments without using DWTs, (5) teacher’s suggestions for using DWTs, (6) students’ learning activities with DWTs, (7) teacher’s modelling of text (s) and (8) students’ arguments after using DWTs. This study suggests that DWTs could foster pedagogical practices in the digital writing classroom.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Tandiana S., Abdullah F. and Komara U. (2017). Digital Writing Tools - Teaching Argumentative Essays beyond the Traditional Frontiers.In The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE, ISBN 978-989-758-332-2, pages 336-343. DOI: 10.5220/0007167003360343

in Bibtex Style

@conference{conaplin and icollite17,
author={Soni T. Tandiana and Fuad Abdullah and U. Komara},
title={Digital Writing Tools - Teaching Argumentative Essays beyond the Traditional Frontiers},
booktitle={The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE,},
year={2017},
pages={336-343},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007167003360343},
isbn={978-989-758-332-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE,
TI - Digital Writing Tools - Teaching Argumentative Essays beyond the Traditional Frontiers
SN - 978-989-758-332-2
AU - Tandiana S.
AU - Abdullah F.
AU - Komara U.
PY - 2017
SP - 336
EP - 343
DO - 10.5220/0007167003360343