This article discusses the role that handwriting can have when writing is used as a
tool for learning in English language education. Nineteen Norwegian EFL teacher
training students were interviewed in focus groups about their own practices and
their thoughts about writing-to-learn activities. All the students said that they
prefer to write by hand. They claimed that writing by hand is fundamentally
different from writing on a keyboard, and that handwriting has much greater
impact as a tool for learning. However, the students had not given much thought
to the didactic implications of their own preferences, and issues related to the
different technologies of writing are not dealt with in their own studies. The
investigation suggests that more attention should be paid to the affordances of
different technologies of writing and to handwriting as a tool for learning in ELT

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