Week 1 Assignment 

Summary

Melor Md Yunus, Hadi Salehi, Chen Chenzi. “Integrating social networking tools into ESL writing classroom: strength and weaknesses”. English Language Teaching. 2012. pp. 42-48

This article discuss about what are the effects of integrating social networking tools into writing classroom, focusing on the advantages and disadvantages of it. Main focus of social networking tools are facebook and Wikipedia. Based on the result, the advantages of including these tools into writing classroom are, it helps broaden student knowledge, increase their motivation and confidence. Meanwhile, the disadvantages are concentrating difficulties, lack of equipment and insufficient contact time between teacher and student. As both of this aspect are seems to be in balance, so it can be concluded that it’s depend on how teacher and student to cooperate and success integrating social networking into ESL writing classroom.