Designing interactive writing teaching using blogs

Miftah, M. Z. (2015) Designing interactive writing teaching using blogs. In: The 1st National Conference on ELT (NACELT): Applied Linguistics, General Linguistics and Literature, 15 November 2015, Institut Agama Islam Negeri (IAIN) Palangka Raya, Palangka Raya, Indonesia.

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Abstract

In recent years, the use of blogs has received a great deal of attention from English teachers around the world and is now establishing its place in writing classroom, as a means of assisting a more realistic setting for the joyful and interactive writing learning. However, blogging activity can be a complicated activity to implement in EFL writing class due to the
focus on the writing activity in an internet application. This paper explores the design of using blogs for teaching writing so that blogging activities can be implemented in writing class to be interactive activities to improve the students’ writing skill for particular context in university level. For so doing, it is conducted research going to be integrated into the writing class. Therefore, classroom action research design is used. It is expected that the use of blogs in a writing class can enhance students’ writing skill, and it is to be an alternative technique for English writing teachers to encounter their problems in writing classroom.

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