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Makale Özeti:
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Due to a rapid development and expansion of technology and, as a result, Web 2.0
technologies are providing both teachers and learners with new solutions to the
limitations of traditional method in the field of language teaching and learning. The
research compared students’ writing ability before and after they were taught through
blog, a new medium or tool for written communication and interaction in many different
languages around the world.
The research design is a kind of one group pretest posttest. Participants were 35 firstyear
students. They were divided into eight groups. Four or five students in each group
created a blog, www.blogger.com, and they worked together for twelve weeks to
produce six pieces of writing assignments.
Each member in the group worked through providing comments, editing and revising on
the blog until the group got a final writing and submitted that to the teacher for grading.
The instruments used in this study were:
two writing tests
a questionnaire surveying students’ attitude toward learning through
blogs, and
postings on blogs to reflect their learning experiences.
The results revealed that after the students worked together on weblogs, their English
writing mean score of the posttest was higher than that of the pretest, and they had
positive attitudes towards using weblogs in learning. Regarding cooperative learning
experiences through using weblogs, most students thought that it was interesting, a new
experience to work with their friends on the weblogs.
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