Using Wikis

Wiki - Hawaiian for "quick" is another tool that could greatly benefit L2 learners. This is a non-threatening area where students can formulate ideas with one another about their writing problems, topics, audience, purpose...anything relating to their frustrations over the course work. It is as Garza and Hern advocate that the Wikis are "open-social collaborative writing tools (that) help students to see the social processes of writing effectively than closed-source systems"(1). It is a great way to get students thinking about their own writing in relation to the assignment. Through Wikis students can involve others to into a rich dialogue about their thinking patterns, fears, strengths, weaknesses and writing. It's endless. In this arena the teacher is not grading the students and therefore students will feel free! Usually, the best kind of writing stems from an uninhibited place where truth and meaning can co-exist to produce memorable text.