An appendix includes ideas for assignments that engage students in critical reflection about their own participation in today’s online public spheres.
The place of language testing and assessment in the professional preparation of foreign language teachers in China. The goal of this article is to explore not only what these social and technological developments mean for the health of public discourse, but also how we, as teachers of writing, can meaningfully engage with them in our classrooms. Seniors from Andress, Chapin, Franklin and Burges high schools this week became QuestBridge Scholars, earning them full-ride scholarships and admission to. Guest editorial to the special issue on language assessment literacy. Mills and Jürgen Habermas associate with a healthy public sphere-communication between strangers is participatory, immediate, accessible, and decentralized-this article raises questions about the extent to which everyday digital writing and circulation practices align with broader democratic aspirations. changing peace process in Myanmar, which emerged in late 2011, has yet to generate much scholarly analysis, commentary and policy literatures have largely bypassed the relationship between language, education and state-society and armed conflicts, and their resolution. This article revisits Matt Barton's 2005 article "The Future of Rational-Critical Debate in Online Public Spheres" in light of recent debates around misinformation and disinformation, data-driven influence campaigns, the blurring line between social media and news media, and the algorithmic incentivization of “fake news.” While today’s social media platforms exhibit many of the qualities that C.W. Visual literacy is broadly defined as the ability to interpret and construct meaning from visual images (Eckhoff, 2010).Visual literacy skills not only help children navigate the visually rich Web, photo dependent social networks, video saturated media, and graphically sophisticated entertainment and gaming (Metros, 2008, p.