The title of this journal is “Blogs in English Language Teaching
and Learning: Pedagogical Uses and Students’s responses.” This article discuss
about learning English through Blog. Some scholars explained that blog could created a sense of community that would be
less likely to emerge in a conventional classroom setting.” This research was
conducted by surveying 145 students in eleven EAP (English Academic Purpose)
and university composition courses at a recently-opened English-medium
university in rural Japan. In order to collect the data, at the end of each
term throughout the research period, the writers used the online survey program
Surveymonkey.com, available for free for small-scale surveys and with monthly
fees for more professional features (www. surveymonkey.com). The discussion
shows that the survey results it
seems clear that students truly appreciated the need of blog to improve their writing and
considered having an editor and being an editor valuable. In conclusion, the students responded positively to the
blogging activities in general as well as to the blogging buddy system. While
over 80% of students stated that they enjoyed posting, reading their
classmates’ posts and making comments on those posts. A large majority also
found the blogging buddy system useful, motivational and effective for
improving their writing.
Introduction Every students has their uniqueness in learning language and it based on their beliefs. According to Cabarog lu and Roberts (2000, p.388) they defined beliefs as “a set of conceptual representation which signify to its holder a reality or given state of affairs of sufficient validity, thruth or trust wothness to warrant reliance upon it as a guide to personal thought and action”. However, there is no complete agreement on meaning and definition of beliefs, although the definition of this concept enjoys popularity in language learning research. Horwitz (1987) defined beliefs about language learning as language learners’ preconceived ideas or nations on variety of issues related to second or foreign language learning. for instance, some of them used to study language by using audio and the rest used to learn by audio-visual. It depend on students’ need and as the teacher they should provide them the best media to make an attractive learning. Therefore, the learners’ tho
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