How Do Students Perceive a Blog-Based English Structure Course?

This is a mixed-type study aiming to examine whether or not, and to what extent, blogging enhances perception among pre-service English language teachers. My goal was to see how technology can be involved in a language learning environment. Data collection tools include records of participants' blog posts and their comments, individual interviews with each pre-service teacher and researcher's field notes. All the blog content is archived on the Internet throughout the study. These blog postings are used to measure the participants' recognition and production of targeted structures in a Contextual Grammar II Course. The Grammar II Course was chosen intentionally in order to prove that a traditional grammar course can be combined with brand new technologies and thus can be more effective. Results indicate that my hypothesis was correct.

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She is a Research Assistant in the Translation and Interpretation Department of Adana Science and Technology University. She is a graduate of Hacettepe University, Translation and Interpretation Department and is currently pursuing a PhD in Translation and Cultural Studies at Y ld z Technical University.