چکیده:
Nowadays Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is becoming notonly enormously popular but also increasingly important in our lives and education system. Generally, learners are usually eager to work on computers or with various kinds of modern technology. This research was carried out to find out whether using weblogs is effective in Iranian EFL learners’ vocabulary and writing skills. To do so, two samples of learners were selected through an OPT test as the control and experimental groups, and a pretest of vocabulary was administrated. Then, the traditional methods of teaching vocabulary and writing were used for the control group, and weblogs were used for the experimental group. After three months of instruction, another test of vocabulary and writing was given as the posttest to the students of both groups to assess their achievement. The results of the analysis of ANCOVA showed that weblogs were more effective than the traditional ways of teaching vocabulary and writing.
خلاصه ماشینی:
"Studies that have been published include research on blogging’s effect on learner autonomy, increasing writing fluency, as a place for completing writing assignments (Ward, 2004; Wu, 2005), posting class materials (Johnson, 2004), and as a way to open communication with bloggers outside the classroom (Pinkman, 2005).
This study aims at investigating the use of weblogs in teaching vocabulary and writing skill to intermediate learners.
Similarly, Fageeh (2011) investigated the effect of blogging on writing proficiency and attitude among undergraduate students of English Department at King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia.
The control group included 30 participants who were randomly selected and received traditional teaching methods on vocabulary learning and writing skill.
Among the recent studies, Fageeh (2011) investigated the effect using blogs on writing skill and their perception among undergraduate students of English Department in King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia.
As presented in the results, they "strongly agreed" or "agreed" with positive features of technology in language learning (Items 1,3,5,6,9,10 and11), including enjoyment, teaching new things, writing improvement, improving language skills, motivation, and the future plans to use technology, while they "strongly disagreed" or "disagreed" with negative aspects of technology (Items 2, 4,7and 8), including being time-consuming, changing attitude, unessential, and technology disadvantages.
The present study was designed to determine the effect of weblog instruction on vocabulary learning and writing skill in the context of Iran.
EFL learners' use of blogging for developing writing skills and enhancing attitudes towards English learning: An exploratory study."