Conceptualizing a mobile-assisted learning environment featuring funds of knowledge for English learners’ narrative writing development

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2023-12-11

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University of Hawaii National Foreign Language Resource Center
Center for Language & Technology

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27

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1

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1

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17

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The purpose of this exploratory sequential mixed-methods study is to investigate a group of middle-school aged Latinx English learners (ELs) in a rural town in the Midwestern United States and to facilitate their narrative writing development via a mobile-assisted language learning (MALL) environment from a funds of knowledge perspective. In particular, we first explored the existing funds of knowledge sources drawing from the ELs’ lived experience and cultural practice through a multimethodological approach over a span of three months. We conceptualized the explored funds of knowledge sources into ELs’ narrative writing practice through the integration of mobile-based writing tools (MBWTs). Second, we employed a multiple pre-and post- non-experimental design for the ELs to complete two non- funds of knowledge and three funds of knowledge-featured narrative writing activities over ten weeks using Google Docs as an MBWT. Results showed a statistically significant positive learning effect of funds of knowledge as an intervention for developing the ELs’ literacy skills in narrative writing within a collaborative MALL environment.

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Mobile assisted language learning, funds of knowledge, English learner, narrative writing

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Chen, Y., Mayall, H. J., Smith, T. J., & York, C. S. (2023). Conceptualizing a mobile-assisted learning environment featuring funds of knowledge for English learners’ narrative writing development. Language Learning & Technology, 27(1), 1–17. https://hdl.handle.net/10125/73543

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