Using Social Media In ESOL/ESL/EFL For The Relationship Age
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Sorry, if I haven’t been posting much recently. I and a group of people who have met via Mari Smith and the Social Media are co-authoring a book to be released in the autumn called “The Relationship Age”. I am writing a “how-to…” on how I incorporate social media in my language teaching.
It’s been really exciting putting down in writing my philosophy about how I view teaching ESOL and the importance of helping students/trainees learn this new language form of CMC (computer-mediated communications, or “Netspeak”, as David Crystal calls it in his books, Language and the Internet
It’s been great reflecting on the essential relational nature of language and reviewing so many important aspects of language learning and I look forward to sharing with you some my insights and experiences and hearing your take on it all.
Here’s my links to these books if you are interested:
2 Comments
April 2nd, 2010 at 02:13
Hi Eileen,
Oh as a Dating and Relationship expert I adore the idea of referring to this age as the Relationship Age. What has prompted your group to refer to it that way? And how can I contribute to your amazing book concept from here in The States? (I skype!)
Happy Dating and Relationships,
April Braswell
Dating Expert and Online Dating Coach
April 2nd, 2010 at 12:24
Thanks for your interest in The Relationship Age book. It’s due out in the autumn. The theme and title, The Relationship Age, was chosen because the books deals with social media and how we use it to create wider and stronger relationships. For example, here we are, perfect strangers, really, conversing on a blog about something that we both love. The internet and social media has such tremendous power to bring people closer. I hope to help that by helping more people be able to use the world’s global language, English!