Using Digital Tools in Responsive And Genre-Based Writing Approach for First-Year University Students

Abstract

Writing in English helps students to express their feelings and communicate their ideas while interacting with their readers. In this session, the speaker will share a lesson plan discussing the responsive writing approach to help English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students in a higher education setting write meaningfully, meet their particular writing purpose by implementing their readers’ preference for the specific genre (i.e., a procedural text) that becomes the final product of their writing, and have opportunities to explore and express their ideas by writing creatively. The lesson plan provides pre-activities, main activities, and reflection at the end of the lesson, supported by various digital tools. Digital literacy may be a concern in this lesson plan because the students need to work collaboratively using Google Slides and other supporting digital tools. However, the students are expected to collaboratively use Google Slides as the primary digital tool in writing the procedural text. Because writing is more challenging than other language skills, hopefully, the teachers’ stimulators in responsive writing will guide the students in writing a procedural text. My presentation will interest EFL teachers looking for a creative teaching technique and ideas for teaching a procedure text supported by various digital tools.