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Creating a web-based communicative learning environment through interactive blogs: English language acquisition
Irudayasamy, Julius1, Hankins, Carmel Antonette2, March, Marco3.
This study aims to assess the viability of blogging in the context of Teaching English to Speakers
of Other Languages (TESOL) as a productive web-based learning environment (WBLE). The blog
sections of three English as a second language (ESL) websites were evaluated and Computer
Mediated Communication (CMC) which appears in the comments sections of blog posts was
examined through reference to excerpts of various comments. The analysis indicates that as a
supplementary means of language education, both the blog content and the debate that hosts in its
commentssection are useful to language learners all over the world who have access to the internet.
It may not facilitate certain areas of cognition that are maximized by Communicative Language
Teaching (CLT), however it does expose readers to necessary information in an educational
context and provide them with an outlet for spontaneous CMC (SCMC), allowing autonomous
parsing of the target language (English).
Affiliation:
- Dhofar University, Oman
- Dhofar University, Oman
- Cardiff University, United Kingdom
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