How does the use of blogs improve writing skills?
Most of the time, blogs are used as out of the classroom motivation for students to improve their writing skill while they communicate with others. Teachers encourage learner independence by having them write in blogs. Teachers nowadays know the importance of learner independence and all the resources technology provides, for this reason they promote out of the classroom motivation and interest like with the use of blogs, it is important that the students interact and get feedback from others. Technology and out of the classroom learning give students the confidence they need, they get to work at their own pace and they do not feel the pressure of the classroom. A sense of self-control is found which make students feel a lot better about their learning process. Blogging has been proven to be an improvement in writing skills, because of all the different factors that are taken into consideration. In a blog, the user not only writes, but it can also read blogs from other users. While reading students learn and this can help in the writing process. Blogging is considered and educational value, it is a complement for training in writing. The use of blogs can not always be a success, teachers must give the correct instructions to students and it has to be taken serious by them. Tasks for blogs should be designed carefully, beginning with what blog platform is going to be used and the activities that each student will perform. Of course there will always be limitations, teachers must be careful when assigning blogging activities to students and they should always monitor every task.
Resources:
Arslan, R. Ş., & Şahin-Kızıl, A. (2010). How can the use of blog software facilitate the writing process of English language learners?. Computer Assisted Language Learning, 23(3), 183-197.
Chen, W. C., Shih, Y. C. D., & Liu, G. Z. (2015). Task design and its induced learning effects in a cross-institutional blog-mediated telecollaboration. Computer Assisted Language Learning, 28(4), 285-305.
Pinkman, K. (2005). Using blogs in the foreign language classroom: Encouraging learner independence. The Jalt CALL Journal, 1(1), 12-24.
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