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Blogs in English Language Teaching and Learning: Pedagogical Uses and Students’s responses

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.
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