{"title":"Role of Technology in Fostering Socio Cognitive Skills in the Context of Teaching ESL","authors":"Madhavi Kesari","doi":"10.1109/T4E.2015.18","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"One of the challenges confronted by teachers in the context of teaching English as a Second Language (ESL) is to enhance second language learning by using technology based cognitive and socio cognitive approaches. Supportively various research studies have proved that technology plays a major role in supporting the learners in a number of ways in the process of which they become self-directed and independent. This paper examines the use of 'text constructing software' and 'multimedia simulation' in teaching paraphrasing and logo designing to a group of students pursuing Masters programme in Business Management. It was found that students could effectively learn to improve socio cognitive skills in their writing samples.","PeriodicalId":215344,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Seventh International Conference on Technology for Education (T4E)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2015-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2015 IEEE Seventh International Conference on Technology for Education (T4E)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/T4E.2015.18","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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One of the challenges confronted by teachers in the context of teaching English as a Second Language (ESL) is to enhance second language learning by using technology based cognitive and socio cognitive approaches. Supportively various research studies have proved that technology plays a major role in supporting the learners in a number of ways in the process of which they become self-directed and independent. This paper examines the use of 'text constructing software' and 'multimedia simulation' in teaching paraphrasing and logo designing to a group of students pursuing Masters programme in Business Management. It was found that students could effectively learn to improve socio cognitive skills in their writing samples.