10-second review: While these three English language learners (ELLs) struggled academically because of their unfamiliarity with English, they developed their identities and their writing skills through online writing groups.
Title: “Announcing the Alan C. Purves Award Winner (Volume 43).” Rebecca Black. “Online Fan Fiction, Global Identities, and Imagination.” Research in the Teaching of English (May 2009). Reviewed in Research in the Teaching of English (February 2010), 338-339.
Quote: “Rebecca Black introduces us to Nanako, Cherry-Chan and Grace and the complex ways that these young women self-identified as online writers…constructed an online identity, recontextualized culture and media through familiar story lines, and participated in shared experiences with fellow writers in an online community.”
Comment: All right, I don’t understand much of this from the brief description of the activities involved. What I do take from this is that the teacher is not necessarily the only audience for students learning to write and children can learn to write by writing with online writing groups. RayS.
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