Fusion of technology with language learning: blog community
This paper reports findings of an innovative teaching and learning tool which utilizes the weblogs or blogs to increase and widen the ESL learners’ learning opportunities. It firstly reports on the implementation process of the online blogs community as a learning instrument in a tertiary-level ES...
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Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2017
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| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12865/1/22108-65594-1-PB.pdf http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12865/ http://ejournal.ukm.my/3l/issue/view/1059 |
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| Summary: | This paper reports findings of an innovative teaching and learning tool which utilizes the weblogs or blogs to
increase and widen the ESL learners’ learning opportunities. It firstly reports on the implementation process of
the online blogs community as a learning instrument in a tertiary-level ESL classroom. Secondly, it highlights
the learners’ feedback being a part of the online blogging community in order to help them enhance their
mastery of the English language. The study which involved a select group of low proficiency learners in one
Malaysian university utilized online blog discussion activities, interviews and reflection journals as data
collection tools. An online blogging community was created and students participated in the group discussion
for a duration of one semester. Qualitative analyses of the blog discussion content, interviews and students’
reflection journals conclusively indicate that online blogging community activities, if done in an organized and
structured manner, can widen students’ learning opportunities beyond the physical classroom and provide a
fresh and effective learning environment for the ESL learners to improve their command of the target language. |
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