The use of blogs in improving narrative writing among primary school students
The aim of this research was to investigate the effectiveness of using blogs inimproving ESL narrative writing among primary school students in a school in Perak, Malaysia. Theparticipants were 30 Year Six students. There were four main objectives in this study. Firstly,the study was to investigate...
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2018
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| Summary: | The aim of this research was to investigate the effectiveness of using blogs inimproving ESL narrative writing among primary school students in a school in Perak, Malaysia. Theparticipants were 30 Year Six students. There were four main objectives in this study. Firstly,the study was to investigate how the use of blogs helps in improving studentsnarrative writing performance. Secondly, it was to find out the students perceptionstowards the use of a teachers blog in writing their narrative essays. Thirdly, the studywas also to discover the roles of teachers, peers and parents that help students in theblogging process. Lastly, it was to identify the positive or negative outcomes thatstudents have when they use blog that support narrative writing. The study employed aquantitative and qualitative research design. The instruments of the study included apre-test and a post-test, questionnaires, and interview. The data obtained from the pre-testand post-test showed that there was a significant difference on students performance in theirnarrative essays. The students have improved their writing quantity and writing qualityespecially in language use, content and vocabulary. The findings revealed the perceptionof students towards blogs. They showed high interest in blogging (88.3%) and felt morepositive about writing narrative essays (80.8%). The students also felt that they gainedmore ideas (76.8%), improved their grammar (78.3%), vocabulary (76.8%), punctuation(76.8%) and benefited a lot from the blogs. Apart from that, the study also found that roles ofpeers were more influential than the roles of teachers and parents in using blogs as medium ofteaching and learning (83%). The findings from the interview analysis with the teachers alsorevealed that there are great positive outcomes when the students used blog in their narrativewriting. These results suggest that the use of blogs has a potential for improving studentsperformance in their narrative writing. As a conclusion, the study has shown positive evidencetowards the use of blogs in improving students narrative writing performance. Among theimplications of the study are that the use of blogs require better ICT facilities and changes inteaching and learning pedagogy in atechnology-based teaching and learning approach. |
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