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.
Mr. Walker was trying to explain about new mania of the world after Beatles mania, sport mania, and religious mania. Mania can be good, can be alarming, or can be deadly. The new mania of the world is mania for learning English. Chinese people learn English by screaming. There are 2 billion of them who trying to learn English worldwide in India, Latin America, India and most of all in China. Chinese start learning English in the third grade. That is why China become the world’s largest English speaking country. Why English ? in one word “Opportunity” for having better life, a job, a school and for putting better food on the table. Imagine a student’s life depends on English test which the score of the test literally determine her future. English is the world's second language, your native language is your life but with English you can become part of a wider conversation. The world has other universal languages such as mathematics is the language of science, music is the langu...
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