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.
This journal also done by a Thai, namely Thippawan Borisai & Nutprapha K. Dennis which took place in Thailand at Ubon Ratchathani Rajabhat University, under title “A Study of Using Pop Songs to Promote New Vocabulary Learning for Secondary School Students.” The researchers stated that, Thailand has managed English teaching based on the Basic Education Core Curriculum in order to develop listening, speaking, reading and writing abilities of students. There are English learning courses as both core and selective subjects in schools to develop students’ capabilities in English. Unfortunately, although English has been taught in school for many years, there has been little success. Hence, the researcher used pop song in order to develop those skills in learning English. The research question are, How do pop songs promote students’ ability in learning new vocabulary ? What are the students’ opinion toward using in learning new vocabulary ? The aims of this study is to promote studen...
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