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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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2011/12
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Sayı:
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1
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Makale Başlık:
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OPINIONS OF ELEMENTARY LEVEL EFL LEARNERS ON THE USE OF WEBLOGS
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Makale Eklenme Tarihi:
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9.04.2015
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Okunma Sayısı:
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1
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Makale Özeti:
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Technology is an indispensable part of our lives and education cannot be taught without
it. Since technology is in every part of our lives, foreign language education also makes
use of the new technology. By the use of the Internet, virtual classrooms and materials
are easy to access and learning takes place beyond the boundaries of the classrooms.
Weblogs or blogs are one of the tools that are used to teach language skills in EFL
courses and students have a chance to reflect on what they wrote in the blogs.
The aim of this study is to find the opinions of elementary level EFL learners on using
weblogs and distance education. The subjects of the study were 10 Native speakers of
English in London and 15 Turkish EFL learners who are learning English in the School of
Foreign Languages. Turkish EFL learners created a class blog and every week they were
given assignments by their class teacher. They wrote paragraphs and they gave and
receive feedback on their writing in terms of content, vocabulary and grammar by their
classmates and by native English speakers in a virtual environment. This procedure
lasted for 6 weeks. At the end of 6 weeks, students were given an evaluation
questionnaire and they were asked to write their opinions about using weblogs. They
were also interviewed by their teacher and the opinions of the students were
categorized. Findings indicate that the students found the idea of weblogs as a distant
learning tool motivating, enjoyable and encouraging.
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