英文摘要 |
This paper reports a classroom activity of using technology tools in the English writing and editing process conducted in a grade-5 classroom. The students participating in this activity had been engaged in English writing activities since their grade-one year and self-editing and peerediting activities since their grade-2 year. During the first four years, writing and editing were accomplished on paper with pen. The pen-paper writing and editing caused readability problems and it was hard to allow more than one student to provide feedback on the same written work. When these students entered the fifth grade, we attempted to employ technology in the writing class in hope of solving the above problems to expect better writing performance. The findings yielded from the collected data indicate the possibility and advantage of using technology tools in such writing and editing activities. "Convenience" was the major advantage for student writing, student editing and even teacher intervention during the writing-editing process. This advantage contributed to some achievements, such as 1) increasing the number of words and enriching the content of the writing, which made writers feel achieving and confident and 2) increasing the times of editing (including editing the writing of their own and others) because it was convenient, interesting and exciting to do editing. |