4. HELPFUL POINTERS TO FACILITATE USING OF BLOG FOR ENGLISH
WRITING
1) Promoting Comfortable Interaction for Students
Most of the students prefer blogging interaction to face-to-face interaction because it is a more
comfortable learning environment for them. Some students maybe feel very comfortable with the
blogging interaction because they don’t not like interacting face-to-face with their classmates.
They indicate that they do not understand the accents and pronunciation of some of their
classmates when they speak and read in English, which make them feel that the class interaction
is a waste of time.
2) Motivating the Students’ Writing and Interaction
Publishing in blogs motivates some students because they want to make an impact on the readers
with topics that were important for her. Posting makes they feel emotionally connected, happy,
and eager to get audience responses. For most students, publishing their work has been proved to
be a motivational incentive to write using blogging. It especially empowers them because they
felt in control of their writing, and as such they were “intellectual explorers.”
3) Giving Students the Self-confidence
This is a finding that emanated from the students’ lack of trust or lack of confidence in their
classmates because they are ESL students and not proficient enough in English.
One aspect of trust and confidence pertains to how the students viewed their classmates’ ability
to critique their work. The acceptance or rejection of feedback is based on the students’ trust in
the reviewer and confidence in their advice, and they
4. HELPFUL POINTERS TO FACILITATE USING OF BLOG FOR ENGLISHWRITING1) Promoting Comfortable Interaction for StudentsMost of the students prefer blogging interaction to face-to-face interaction because it is a morecomfortable learning environment for them. Some students maybe feel very comfortable with theblogging interaction because they don’t not like interacting face-to-face with their classmates.They indicate that they do not understand the accents and pronunciation of some of theirclassmates when they speak and read in English, which make them feel that the class interactionis a waste of time.2) Motivating the Students’ Writing and InteractionPublishing in blogs motivates some students because they want to make an impact on the readerswith topics that were important for her. Posting makes they feel emotionally connected, happy,and eager to get audience responses. For most students, publishing their work has been proved tobe a motivational incentive to write using blogging. It especially empowers them because theyfelt in control of their writing, and as such they were “intellectual explorers.”3) Giving Students the Self-confidenceThis is a finding that emanated from the students’ lack of trust or lack of confidence in theirclassmates because they are ESL students and not proficient enough in English.One aspect of trust and confidence pertains to how the students viewed their classmates’ abilityto critique their work. The acceptance or rejection of feedback is based on the students’ trust inthe reviewer and confidence in their advice, and they
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