Call for Conference Speakers
eLearning Guild Annual Gathering Conference & Expo 2009
March 9 - 12, 2009
Orlando, FL

If you want to be a conference speakers, this is a good time to do it. i am going to write an article which is Social networking to enhence ESL reading skills and i represent my company in this conference. I would like to use LinkedIn to be my research instrument. Linkedin is very hot social networking sites. it is the reason i pick Linkedin. i hope it is going to work for this paper. This is the best time to show what is your company and how are you going to run. I am going to show you guys my proposal. I may change my participants from 450 ESL students to 30 students. it will be easy for me to do it. Anyways . i hope i can finish this paper

Participants
Participants for this study will be ESL students in San Diego community college; all students in San Diego, CA. It is distance course from US to Taiwan. The test will give to 450 ESL students in college the ages of the student’s differed from18 to 30years.
Instrument and Design
It will be pre-test and post-test design. We are going to use experimental groups and control groups. With this design, both a control group and an experimental group is compared pre-test and post-test, however, the groups are randomization. All students will take pre-test and post-test in reading comprehension exam
A reading comprehensive pre-test will construct to divide the subjects into three reading proficiency groups. The pre-test include an article with 10 multiple-choice items ranging from 100 to 150 words .due to the results of the pre-test, students will classify into three reading proficiency groups: low, intermediate, and high. 150 students who receive scores below 20 points will classify into the low level group; 150 students between 20 and 30 points will classify into the intermediate level group; and 150 students who obtained above 30 points will classify into the high level group. Second, all three groups will be divide into two different teaching method. One is experimental group with social networking, other one is control group without social networking.
Testing Procedures
All three levels experimental groups and control groups will take reading comprehension pre-test. Four weeks later, when the experimental groups finish the 8-hour with social networking training. Students will ask questions from LinkedIn which is social networking. Otherwise, the control group with three reading proficiency groups will not use the social networking of LinkedIn
Two groups will give the same reading comprehension test as a post-test. The rationale is to use exactly the same test for both pre- and post-testing is to measure how three levels experimental group’s performance in LinkedIn and to avoid the problem of equating different forms of pre-test and post-test. We will not provide with the correct answers after the pre-test, even were they to remember how they had answered a question the first time, they had no way of knowing whether that answer was correct. Moreover, any effects due to experience with the test would be comparable for each of the three groups. And, finally, one of the most common types of test reliability in psychometrics consists of such test-retest reliability.
Materials and Training Procedures
English teachers will use the articles of social networking. All papers are very interesting for students. Therefore, the teacher (the researcher) will pick twelve reading passages which would be covered during the 7 weeks from a variety of sources. Five reading passages will be choosing from technology magazine, and seven reading topics from popular ESL reading materials. The all reading topic will choose on the basis of subjects' presumed interest. Second, when students have problems with twelve reading passages, teachers will give the social networking of LinkedIn. LinkedIn is a please which can ask questions and someone will help to answer the questions. Experimental group will be train by LinkedIn with twelve reading passages.
When the students finish this training, the teacher will follow reading strategies into LinkedIn: first, the teacher summarizes the section of the passage; second, the teacher asking a couple of questions on the content; third, the teacher predicted the content of the following sections; finally, the teacher evaluates the content for compatibility with prior knowledge and common sense from LinkedIn. The teacher is not helping to resolve problems. Students will ask their own questions to LinkedIn. It will help our students focusing on their learning and also helping cooperative learning.
Data analysis
The experimental data will subject to two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA)