Term
Summer 2024
Capstone
Capstone Project
Degree Name
MA-TESOL
Facilitator(s)
Julia Reimer and Trish Harvey
Content Expert
Joleen Lundin
Abstract
This capstone paper explores the research question: When teaching computer-mediated communication (CMC) skills to upper elementary students, how can teachers include politeness (netiquette) instruction tailored to meet the needs of multilingual learners (MLs)? After reflecting on her own previous difficulties trying to learn the netiquette rules of another language, the author conducted a literature review that revealed an important gap: despite the increasing prevalence of CMC at the elementary level, little research currently exists on how best to teach netiquette skills to this age group. In the accompanying project, the author wove together ideas from traditional linguistic theories about polite communication, research on teaching face-to-face politeness to MLs, and research on teaching netiquette to older MLs, to create a seventeen-day netiquette curriculum resource for fourth and fifth grade MLs. The curriculum covers emailing teachers, emailing students, co-creating a slide deck, and participating in a message board discussion. Students learn about the following netiquette topics levels of directness, modality to express degrees of obligation, and examples of positive and negative politeness. Students are actively involved in creating their own classroom definition of netiquette. Though the curriculum resource was created for the author’s particular teaching context, she encourages other teachers to adapt it for use with their own learners. Due to the current lack of research in teaching netiquette to elementary students, this project may be of interest not just to ML teachers but to classroom teachers as well.
Project Type
Curriculum
Keywords
Curriculum, ESL/ ELLs, Technology
Recommended Citation
Price, Denise, "Netiquette for Upper Elementary Multilingual Learners: A Curriculum Resource" (2024). School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects. 1038.
https://digitalcommons.hamline.edu/hse_cp/1038
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text
dc_publisher
DigitalCommons@Hamline
dc_format
application/pdf
dc_source
School of Education Student Capstone Projects