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Alaboudi, Rashed Saad.

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The utility of second language blogging: Student perceptions from English writing courses in Saudi Arabia.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The utility of second language blogging: Student perceptions from English writing courses in Saudi Arabia./
Author:	Alaboudi, Rashed Saad.
Description:	66 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 53-05.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International53-05(E).
Subject:	Language, Linguistics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=1568436
ISBN:	9781321312942

The utility of second language blogging: Student perceptions from English writing courses in Saudi Arabia.
Alaboudi, Rashed Saad.

The utility of second language blogging: Student perceptions from English writing courses in Saudi Arabia. - 66 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 53-05.

Thesis (M.A.)--Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 2014.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Technology is advancing in continuous and swift steps, producing many tools that can be utilized in language teaching and learning practice.This study aims to examine the perceptions of 16 male English writing students in a Saudi university towards the utility of using blogging in their writing classes. The instrument of this study includes a survey of 19 Likert-scale questions, three open-ended questions, and five demographic questions. Six major areas of interest are explored in view of participants' perceptions of blog-based writing classes, including usefulness, benefits, advantages and disadvantages and whether or not they would choose a blog-based writing class in the future.

ISBN: 9781321312942Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018079
Language, Linguistics.

The utility of second language blogging: Student perceptions from English writing courses in Saudi Arabia.
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520 $a Technology is advancing in continuous and swift steps, producing many tools that can be utilized in language teaching and learning practice.This study aims to examine the perceptions of 16 male English writing students in a Saudi university towards the utility of using blogging in their writing classes. The instrument of this study includes a survey of 19 Likert-scale questions, three open-ended questions, and five demographic questions. Six major areas of interest are explored in view of participants' perceptions of blog-based writing classes, including usefulness, benefits, advantages and disadvantages and whether or not they would choose a blog-based writing class in the future.
520 $a The results reveal that the utility of blogging is perceived positively by the majority of participants in this study and is associated with an increased motivation and involvement in the learning process. Blog-based English writing classes are found useful for improving learners' critical thinking skills, vocabulary knowledge, writing style, sentence structure, grammatical competence, audience awareness, punctuation, organizational structure, and creativity of ideas. Among all these benefits, the highest mean is observed in relation to the benefits of blogging for participants' growth as critical readers of other students' writings.
520 $a Overall, the results of the present study add further support to the postulations of Collaborative Learning Theory (Dillenbourg,1999) and the Expectancy Theory (Groom, 1964), according to which collaboration in learning facilitates the process of reaching the expected learning outcomes. Based on the results of the present study, the use of blogging as a teaching tool seems to facilitate both the collaborative nature of learning and the level of learner expectancy.This observation is supported by the high percentage (56%) of participants who agreed that by writing blogs they have learned to write for different audiences.
520 $a The findings of this study also draw attention to the fact that some negative observations were made about the quality and effectiveness of peer work and peer feedback.This is one area that needs to be considered in future research in order to find effective ways of incorporating peer collaboration in the development and assessment of students' writing skills in English blog-based classes.
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