Blogging as an EFL Practice Beyond The Classroom

This small research project aims to explore how the use of a blog can benefit students’learning processes in a rural school. Materials such as texts, videos, and even links for connecting with other similar sites were provided to students in order to employ blogs as a language exposure platform forE...

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Main Author: Amado Cepeda, Rosa María
Format: Online
Language:eng
Published: Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia 2015
Online Access:https://revistas.uptc.edu.co/index.php/enletawa_journal/article/view/4084
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description This small research project aims to explore how the use of a blog can benefit students’learning processes in a rural school. Materials such as texts, videos, and even links for connecting with other similar sites were provided to students in order to employ blogs as a language exposure platform forEnglish learning. Data was collected by means of students’ narratives (opinions) regarding their use of the blogs and informal observation of students’ engagement in the process andof their artifacts. As a result,findings indicate that the use of blogs became a useful aid to support language learning due to the contact participants established with the foreign language in the learning process, incidentally blogging enhanced students’ participation and interest in their own learning
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spelling oai:oai.revistas.uptc.edu.co:article-40842015-12-17T14:36:33Z Blogging as an EFL Practice Beyond The Classroom Amado Cepeda, Rosa María This small research project aims to explore how the use of a blog can benefit students’learning processes in a rural school. Materials such as texts, videos, and even links for connecting with other similar sites were provided to students in order to employ blogs as a language exposure platform forEnglish learning. Data was collected by means of students’ narratives (opinions) regarding their use of the blogs and informal observation of students’ engagement in the process andof their artifacts. As a result,findings indicate that the use of blogs became a useful aid to support language learning due to the contact participants established with the foreign language in the learning process, incidentally blogging enhanced students’ participation and interest in their own learning Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia 2015-12-16 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf https://revistas.uptc.edu.co/index.php/enletawa_journal/article/view/4084 10.19053/2011835X.4084 Enletawa Journal; Vol. 8 No. 1 (2015) Enletawa Journal; Vol. 8 Núm. 1 (2015) 2463-1965 2011-835X eng https://revistas.uptc.edu.co/index.php/enletawa_journal/article/view/4084/3508 Copyright (c) 2015 ENLETAWA JOURNAL
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