¶ … articles regarding pedagogy to bridge the gap between practice and theory in education. We will see how new teachers can apply their freshly absorbed knowledge in order to benefit them in their fresh classroom environments in the area of ESOL teaching. Increasingly, immersion is seen to be effective in improving ESOL as well as it is in the teaching of foreign languages. What the study discovered is that interaction is the key in training children in ESOL
ESOL Effectiveness Online
Subjects/Participants
In an article in Journal of Research on Technology in Education analyzes the effectiveness ESOL students in communication using the agency of electronic discussion boards. The study focused on the use of electronic discussion boards equipped with ESOL students who were in grades K-12 in school. There has been a movement within ESL in recent years to concentrate on competency as opposed to grammar and form, hence the format seen in this study. 28 students participated. The students were drawn from seven different classes in six elementary schools. Eighteen of these were male while ten were female students. Seven of the students spoke Spanish and five students spoke Chinese. The other students spoke Russian, Samoan, Urdu, French, Pohnpeian, Korean, or in Arabic.
The study researchers assigned the students from the same schools into different discussion groups. This was so that the electronic chat room/discussion board was the only site for the students in the same discussion group to communicate with each other. In this way, each group, consisted of three to four students from different schools. Each had its own discussion area on the discussion board (Zha, Kelly, Park & Fitzgerald, 2006, 351).
Methodology
The purpose of the study was to investigate the students' communicative competence in a computer-mediated communication environment. Each activity lasted two weeks consecutively with the intervention including a one-week training period with three communication and writing activities in an electronic discussion board (ibid., 351-352).
Data Collection Procedures.
In order to study ESL in the computer-mediated environment, qualitative and quantitative methods were both used to analyze some 956...
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