Teaching and learning critical reading and creative writing in the second language
have gone beyond the four walls of classrooms and language classrooms. Apart from
flipped classrooms, where lessons and assignments can be conducted and done
during weekends, public holidays and festive breaks, Universiti Teknologi MARA has
moved another step in implementing Week without Walls (WWW) where students learn
in a less structured way outside the classrooms. Qualitative method namely case study
is used to design the research methodology for this study. The focus on the case
study is to see how learning is demonstrated through the use of social media. The
case study on diploma and degree students from three faculties found that WWW
has increased motivation and interest in teaching and learning of second language
reading and writing. Other than using the usual teaching videos, notes on the online
platform, students are asked to read Reader’s Digest magazines and post a caption
of an interesting article or activity they have read on the social media. Using social
learning theory, analysis of the students’ narratives on social media postings reveal
that given the freedom to demonstrate their learning experience, students can be
creative by posting pictures and videos of what they have read on their social media
and realize that learning is not just for assessments.
Learnables in Action : The Embodied Achievement of Opportunities for Teaching and Learning in Swedish as a Second Language Classrooms
