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Derginin Adı:
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The Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education
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Cilt:
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2012/13
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Sayı:
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4
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Makale Başlık:
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USING BLOGS TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ SUMMARY WRITING ABILITIES
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Makale Eklenme Tarihi:
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6.04.2015
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Okunma Sayısı:
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1
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Makale Özeti:
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The research compared students’ summary 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 33 first-year students who studied EN 011
course (English in Action) in the first semester of the academic year 2012 at Bangkok
University. They were divided into six groups. Five or six students in each group
created a blog; www.blogger.com, and they worked together for fourteen weeks to
produce six pieces of summary written work. Each member in the group worked
through providing comments, editing and revising on the blog until the group got a
final summary paper and submitted that to the teacher for grading. The instruments
used in this study were (1) two summary writing tests (2) a questionnaire surveying
students’ attitude toward learning through blogs, and (3) postings on blogs to reflect
their learning experience.
The results revealed that after the students worked together on weblogs, their English
summary 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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