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Academic Writing Instruction Beyond the Classroom Walls: New Possibilities and Implications for English Language Teachers and Learners

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Owing to ever-changing technological advances, the landscape of language education has been reformed significantly. The aim of the chapter is to provide theoretical and practical guidance for teachers and candidate teachers about how to integrate technology to academic writing instruction during online courses. In this chapter, a new generation of digital approaches to academic writing instruction would be discussed reviewing the related literature and then the instructional offers would be presented with available effective digital writing tools and task samples. The content of the chapter includes three subsections: (1), the theoretical discussion on academic writing and technology integration referring to digital writing and multimodal practices, (2), the practical implementations of the tools and tasks within the framework of Critical Reading and Writing course, and (3) evaluation and discussion on future research and practices. Available innovative online tools would be exemplified referring to the stages and processes of writing lesson; for example, Lucidspark for brainstorming, Padlet, Cube Creator, Zoho Writer for collaborative interactive writing and Adobe Spark, Pixton for adding visuals. Furthermore, implemented task samples using these tools and additional ideas for classroom practices are presented within the scope of the chapter.

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Yüksel, İ., Başaran Uysal, B.Ç., Eren Gezen, E., Özkanal, Ü. (2022). Academic Writing Instruction Beyond the Classroom Walls: New Possibilities and Implications for English Language Teachers and Learners. In: Yangın-Ekşi, G., Akayoglu, S., Anyango, L. (eds) New Directions in Technology for Writing Instruction. English Language Education, vol 30. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13540-8_12

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