This week, teacher gave me some questions to answer by finding from a knowledge sheet that was a Using blog in the Foreign Language Classroom : Encouraging Learner Independence research of Kathleen Pinkman at Kwansei Gakuin University in Japan. This is questions that are :
1.What is the purpose of this project?
- This project was an out-of-class project aimed at motivating students to take advantage of authentic environments outside the classroom in order to practice language skills and communicate with others.
2.How was the data collected?
- Data were collected from learners through questionnaires and interviews conducted at the end of the term.
3.What were the results of pre-project questionnaire?
- No student had a blog prior to the class, and only two learners had any knowledge of blogs.
4.What were the results of post-project questionnaire?
- The students spent 30 minutes/week working on the project. Three learners spent between 10-15 minutes, and two spent more than one hour blogging each week.
5.What are the advantages of blog?
- The students enjoyed using blogs in the classroom. Eight learners agrees that they enjoyed interacting. Seven learners cited that they thought their writing skills had improved from participating in the project. Five learners told they learnt about new vocabulary and using it.In addition, the advantages of blog can practice your grammar and improve your thinking in English.
6.What are the disadvantages of blog?
- The students told they were unable to understand the software that uploaded pictures onto their sites.
7.What are the suggestions to improve the project?
- The author uncovered many comments that linked blogger with writing.
"...It is very difficult to write by English but we can progress by English writing ability by write blog."
"...Writing skills. Every week I have to write 150 words , so but only I joined the class I don't have...I couldn't have a chance to write English... 150 so..."
"...When I wrote the blog, I think that oh, I have to study more words, because I can write sentence...writing sentence is not so difficult, but I don't know this ...how to write English, I realized that I have to study more words."
Moreover, I learnt about basic corpus and I knew about Concordance that is a list of all of the occurrences of a word or phrase in a corpus, given in the context of the sentence it occurs in. Then, I learnt about about AntConc that is a program for analysing electronic texts (that is, corpus linguistics) in order to find and reveal patterns in language. It was created by Laurence Anthony of Waseda
University. It is, in my opinion, one of the most well designed and easy to use corpus tools out there.
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