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The use of weblog in language learning: motivation of second language learners in reading classroom

Cultural aspect is one of the student’s background knowladge that can boast or complicate them when they learning about english as whole with their behaviours that usually related with the native cultural background. As a second language contries, student usually tend to holding back and inactive when classroom begin because of their lack in confidence and motivation. Using blog, as a tool in learning activity can increased their excitement. Exploring and using online learning tool, will give them chance to learn and use the language in proper and academic but in fun way. The web blog use for the extensive language to develop their knowladge beyond classroom and classhours. Learners give task to acsess and comment in group’s blog divided and created by the teacher. By this activity student learning process is significantly increased than number of average students participation in usuall disscusion.


Source:
Themes in Science and Technolgy Education
Volume 3, Number 1-2,
Pg. 45-61