TY - JOUR
T1 - Rethinking Authenticity
T2 - Voice and Feedback in Media Discourse
AU - Liang, Mei Ya
N1 - Funding Information:
Financial support for the research and writing of this article was provided by the Teaching and Learning Development Center at National Central University (985816-1) and National Science Council of Taiwan (100-2410-H-008-056). I would like to thank Tzu-Ling Hsu for her assistance in data collection and analysis. I am grateful to the editor and the reviewers for their insightful suggestions.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - As authentic communicative practices, news writing and media discourse have the potential to serve as pedagogical tools for foreign language students to explore content of interest. This study analyzed university students' media discourse in the virtual world of Second Life and subsequent revisions of their works in progress with respect to (1) journalistic headlines, (2) journalistic vocabulary, (3) journalistic organization, and (4) journalistic style. The results have revealed connections between voice and composition-that is, exchanging and sharing true thoughts and feelings while maintaining a self-image facilitated more concise, engaging, clear, and relevant news writing from new or different perspectives. Participants' actions, perceptions, and movements also facilitated a better understanding of communicative practices specific to the virtual world. The results suggest that we should rethink authenticity in terms of content, contexts, purposes, and audiences to design computer-mediated collaborative learning tasks and support students' authentic engagement of peers or other international speakers in lingua franca communication. This study may shed light on the future use of new media literacy and playful peer discourse in foreign language writing.
AB - As authentic communicative practices, news writing and media discourse have the potential to serve as pedagogical tools for foreign language students to explore content of interest. This study analyzed university students' media discourse in the virtual world of Second Life and subsequent revisions of their works in progress with respect to (1) journalistic headlines, (2) journalistic vocabulary, (3) journalistic organization, and (4) journalistic style. The results have revealed connections between voice and composition-that is, exchanging and sharing true thoughts and feelings while maintaining a self-image facilitated more concise, engaging, clear, and relevant news writing from new or different perspectives. Participants' actions, perceptions, and movements also facilitated a better understanding of communicative practices specific to the virtual world. The results suggest that we should rethink authenticity in terms of content, contexts, purposes, and audiences to design computer-mediated collaborative learning tasks and support students' authentic engagement of peers or other international speakers in lingua franca communication. This study may shed light on the future use of new media literacy and playful peer discourse in foreign language writing.
KW - Authenticity
KW - EFL
KW - Media discourse
KW - Peer response
KW - Second Life
KW - Voice
KW - Writing
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84881533389&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.compcom.2013.06.002
DO - 10.1016/j.compcom.2013.06.002
M3 - 期刊論文
AN - SCOPUS:84881533389
SN - 8755-4615
VL - 30
SP - 157
EP - 179
JO - Computers and Composition
JF - Computers and Composition
IS - 3
ER -