The blog is pointers to facilitate using or English writing such as Promoting Comfortable Interaction for Students, Motivating the Students’ Writing and Interaction posting makes they feel emotionally connected, happy,and eager to get audience responses. and Giving Students the Self-confidence, The acceptance or rejection of feedback is based on the students’ trust in the reviewer and confidence in their advice, and they The blogs are a very versatile communication medium for using in education. Clearly blogs have been used most often as journals. Blogs are not only a journal tool that used for communication but they are teaching strategy in and of themselves that can be used in a variety of pedagogical methods. Obviously, blogging is an effective tool for delivery of instruction as evidenced in this study by the numerous benefits for its use which outweighed the drawbacks of the traditional communication tools such as email or bulletin boards. The purpose of this study is to examine the effective use of blogs for EFL students. Overall it proves to be Vol 4. No. 1 Mar 2009 Journal of Cambridge Studies 72 significant because it provides some pedagogical theory of the usefulness of this technology tool for learning instruction. This study shows that educators should be aware of the students’ perceptions of and reactions for the use of blogs as a pedagogical tool for EFL students. It seems to be a few concerns that most instructors share when it comes to using blogs in English. class: privacy, netiquette, ethics, appropriateness of content, and motivating student participation.
Further formal study should be done relating to these topics. These topics should be studied in
relation to how they affect the use of the blog for English language learning, and therefore how
they affect the learning process. Studies should be done concerning how best to motivate
students to make use of the full learning potential of blogs as well as how to teach them the
necessity of privacy, netiquette, ethics, and appropriate content.