| dc.description.abstract | As teaching philosophies and methods continuously develop recently, current English teaching focuses more on the positive engagement of learners, interactivity, contextual guidance, and practical application in order to improve learners′ learning achievement and application ability. In addition, English writing has always been a challenge for EFL learners, who need to have sufficient vocabulary and a clear understanding of grammar and sentence structure in order to convey their thoughts accurately. Consequently, many previous studies have been conducted using recognition technologies to facilitate EFL writing in authentic contexts, however, there is still a lack of how to integrate contextualization and socialization with recognition technologies to help learners write EFL writing in authentic contexts more effectively. In this study, a mobile application-Advanced AuthWrite-was developed to integrate Contextualization, Authentic Socialization mechanism, Advanced Image-to-text recognition (Advanced ITR), and Advanced Location-to-text recognition (Advanced LTR) to support learners′ English writing in real-life situations. Advanced recognition technologies categorize and provide learners with relevant vocabularies at different levels of difficulty based on the recognition of images and places; authentic socialization allows learners to communicate with their peers based on their writing content, ITR images, and LTR places to improve their essays.
In this study, a total of 34 vocational high school students were divided into two groups for a 12-week experimental activity. The experiment was conducted in two stages. The stage 1, we studied the influence of using advanced ITR and LTR for contextualizing learning on EFL writing, while in stage 2, we investigated the effects of authentic socialization mechanisms on EFL writing performance. The results revealed that in stage 1, using advanced ITR and LTR for contextualization writing, advanced ITR images helped to inspire more ideas, while advanced LTR places have a mediation effect through ITR images to help learners address the writing topic more appropriately and enhance their writing performance; in stage 2, through authentic socialization mechanisms, the encouragement provided to learners by peers motivated learners to explain more details in their essays. Also, the advanced ITR vocabulary had a significant impact on EFL writing performance, as they were able to convey their thoughts more accurately through the texts. Therefore, the integration of authentic socialization mechanisms and advanced ITR and LTR for contextualization learning can effectively facilitate learners′ EFL writing, to write more meaningful content and achieve better writing performance. | en_US |