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Fusion of technology with language learning: blog community

This paper reports findings of an innovative teaching and learning tool which utilizes the weblogs or blogs to increase and widen the ESL learners’ learning opportunities. It firstly reports on the implementation process of the online blogs community as a learning instrument in a tertiary-level ES...

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Main Authors: Nadzrah Abu Bakar,, Hafizah Latif,, Azizah Yaacob,
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Language:English
Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2017
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12865/1/22108-65594-1-PB.pdf
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spelling my-ukm.journal.128652019-05-07T14:28:56Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12865/ Fusion of technology with language learning: blog community Nadzrah Abu Bakar, Hafizah Latif, Azizah Yaacob, This paper reports findings of an innovative teaching and learning tool which utilizes the weblogs or blogs to increase and widen the ESL learners’ learning opportunities. It firstly reports on the implementation process of the online blogs community as a learning instrument in a tertiary-level ESL classroom. Secondly, it highlights the learners’ feedback being a part of the online blogging community in order to help them enhance their mastery of the English language. The study which involved a select group of low proficiency learners in one Malaysian university utilized online blog discussion activities, interviews and reflection journals as data collection tools. An online blogging community was created and students participated in the group discussion for a duration of one semester. Qualitative analyses of the blog discussion content, interviews and students’ reflection journals conclusively indicate that online blogging community activities, if done in an organized and structured manner, can widen students’ learning opportunities beyond the physical classroom and provide a fresh and effective learning environment for the ESL learners to improve their command of the target language. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2017 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12865/1/22108-65594-1-PB.pdf Nadzrah Abu Bakar, and Hafizah Latif, and Azizah Yaacob, (2017) Fusion of technology with language learning: blog community. 3L; Language,Linguistics and Literature,The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies., 23 (4). pp. 200-211. ISSN 0128-5157 http://ejournal.ukm.my/3l/issue/view/1059
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description This paper reports findings of an innovative teaching and learning tool which utilizes the weblogs or blogs to increase and widen the ESL learners’ learning opportunities. It firstly reports on the implementation process of the online blogs community as a learning instrument in a tertiary-level ESL classroom. Secondly, it highlights the learners’ feedback being a part of the online blogging community in order to help them enhance their mastery of the English language. The study which involved a select group of low proficiency learners in one Malaysian university utilized online blog discussion activities, interviews and reflection journals as data collection tools. An online blogging community was created and students participated in the group discussion for a duration of one semester. Qualitative analyses of the blog discussion content, interviews and students’ reflection journals conclusively indicate that online blogging community activities, if done in an organized and structured manner, can widen students’ learning opportunities beyond the physical classroom and provide a fresh and effective learning environment for the ESL learners to improve their command of the target language.
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author Nadzrah Abu Bakar,
Hafizah Latif,
Azizah Yaacob,
spellingShingle Nadzrah Abu Bakar,
Hafizah Latif,
Azizah Yaacob,
Fusion of technology with language learning: blog community
author_facet Nadzrah Abu Bakar,
Hafizah Latif,
Azizah Yaacob,
author_sort Nadzrah Abu Bakar,
title Fusion of technology with language learning: blog community
title_short Fusion of technology with language learning: blog community
title_full Fusion of technology with language learning: blog community
title_fullStr Fusion of technology with language learning: blog community
title_full_unstemmed Fusion of technology with language learning: blog community
title_sort fusion of technology with language learning: blog community
publisher Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate 2017
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12865/1/22108-65594-1-PB.pdf
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http://ejournal.ukm.my/3l/issue/view/1059
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