A Class Blog: Cultivating Students’ Writing Accuracy within Collaborative and Competitive Atmospheres

Teguh Sulistyo, Maria Cholifah, Siane Herawati

2019

Abstract

In reality, writing is considered very complex activities in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classes but the smallest satisfying subject for teachers and the most discouraging lesson for students. The students often produce grammatical errors or unnatural expressions. One of the activities to solve the problems the students encounter in accomplishing a writing task is the implementation of a class blog. As a computer-mediated platform, the blog allows observable interactions both within and beyond the classroom between students and teachers and or among students. Thus, the present paper investigated the power of a class blog in cultivating the students’ writing performance, especially the accuracy of the essays posted in the blog. A number of 30 students majoring in English Department participated in this study. They were treated using a class blog in one term. The findings suggest that the blog facilitated the students to revise and develop their accuracy in composing essays. Nevertheless, teachers are strongly suggested to take into account students’ different levels of technology savvy.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Sulistyo T., Cholifah M. and Herawati S. (2019). A Class Blog: Cultivating Students’ Writing Accuracy within Collaborative and Competitive Atmospheres.In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on English Language Teaching, Linguistics and Literature - Volume 1: ELITE, ISBN 978-989-758-459-6, pages 115-120. DOI: 10.5220/0010020401150120

in Bibtex Style

@conference{elite19,
author={Teguh Sulistyo and Maria Cholifah and Siane Herawati},
title={A Class Blog: Cultivating Students’ Writing Accuracy within Collaborative and Competitive Atmospheres},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on English Language Teaching, Linguistics and Literature - Volume 1: ELITE,},
year={2019},
pages={115-120},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010020401150120},
isbn={978-989-758-459-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on English Language Teaching, Linguistics and Literature - Volume 1: ELITE,
TI - A Class Blog: Cultivating Students’ Writing Accuracy within Collaborative and Competitive Atmospheres
SN - 978-989-758-459-6
AU - Sulistyo T.
AU - Cholifah M.
AU - Herawati S.
PY - 2019
SP - 115
EP - 120
DO - 10.5220/0010020401150120