Let's Text at School!

• In Event: Moscone Center West Roundtable Session 6
  In Roundtable Session: Multimodalities and the Arts in Languages and Literacy Studies

Abstract

The nature of this mixed method research study is to examine the relationship between academic English text conversations and writing skills. Academic conversations via printed language (text-talk) is one of the paths towards mastery of verbal and written articulation. The main research question asks: What are the benefits in developing students’ literacy skills through the use of story texting and text-talking?
Enhancing each learner’s cognitive organizing skills and especially academic discourse fluencies progressing from story acting, to storytelling, to story texting, to story writing, is the main focus of the proposed research design. Pre-and-post-assessment artifacts (i.e. pre-/post-vocabulary tests, story texting, weekly written summaries) have been collected and assessed in order to document language development of key terms and concepts.

Author

• Colleen l. Smith, National University