Written production in EFL through blogging and cooperative learning at A-level
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https://doi.org/10.17398/1988-8430.31.97Keywords:
A-level; English as a Foreign Language; Blogging; cooperative learning; written productionAbstract
Abstract
Our main objective is to verify whether learners improved their level of EFL written production through blogging from the perspective of the Cooperative Learning approach. The learners participating in this experiment were in their 1st academic year of A-levels within the Spanish education system. Their level of English was B1 according to the CEFR. Having identified the learners’ level related to EFL written production, one research question was established to confirm whether learners improved their level of written production through blogging. From this research question, the following starting hypothesis was created: 1. Blogging helps learners increase their EFL written production within the Cooperative Learning approach. The chosen method was action-research implying, thus, that quantitative outcomes were analyzed. The results were quite satisfactory implying, in consequence, that this current paper is worth and interesting since not much research has been published at non-university education and, in particular, in A-level studies.
Keywords: EFL; Written Production; Blogging; Cooperative Learning; A-level.
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Sevillano García, Mª L., y Vázquez Cano, E (2011). Educadores en Red. Elaboración y Edición de materiales audiovisuales para la enseñanza. Madrid: Ediciones Académicas-UNED.
Ward, J. (2004). Blog Assisted Language Learning: Push Button Publishing for the Pupils. TEFL Web Journal, 3(1), 1-16.
Wu, W. (2005). Using blogs in an EFL writing class. Paper presented at the 2005 International Conference on TEFL and Applied Linguistics. Retrieved on 12th April 2014 at www.chu.edu.tw/~wswu/publications/papers/conferences/05.pdf.
Campbell, A.P. (2003). Weblogs for use with ESL classes. The Internet TESL Journal, 9(2), 33-35.
Carney, N. (2009). Blogging in foreign language education. In M. Thomas (Ed), Handbook of research on Web 2.0 and second language learning (pp. 292-312). IGI Global.
Dewey, J., & Small, A.W. (1897). My pedagogic creed 25. New York: Ell Kellogg & Company.
Domingo-Coscolla, M.; Sánchez-Valero, J. A., y Sancho-Gil, J. M. (2014). Investigar con y sobre los jóvenes colaborando y educando. Comunicar, 42 (21), 157-164. doi:10.3916/c42-2014-15.
Ducate, L., & Lomicka, L. (2005). Exploring the blogosphere: Uses of weblogs in the foreign language classroom. Foreign Language Annals, 38(3), 410-421.
Dudeney, G., and Hockly, N. (2007). How to teach English with technology. Malaysia: Pearson-Longman.
Fellner, T., & Apple, M. (2006). Developing writing fluency and lexical complexity with blogs. JALT Call Journal, 2(1), 15–26.
Godwin-Jones, B. (2003). Blogs and Wikis: Environments for On-line Collaboration. Language Learning & Technology, 7 (2), 12-16.
Herring, S. C., Kouper, I., Paolillo, J. C., Scheidt, L. A., Tyworth, M., y Welsch, P. (2005). Conversations in the blogosphere: An analysis ‘from the bottom up’. In Thirty-Eighth Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-38). Hawaii.
Jons, Z., and Nuhfer-Halten, B. (2006). Uses of Blogs in L2 Instruction. In Languages for Today’s World. Dimension 2006 (pp. 25-35). Southern Conference on Language Teaching and the Florida Foreign Language Association. Selected Proceedings.
Johnson, David W., & Johnson, Roger T. (2016). La Evaluación en el aprendizaje cooperativo (Biblioteca Innovación Educativa). Madrid: SM.
Kagan, M., Robertson, L, & Kagan, S. (1995). Cooperative Learning Structures for Classbuilding. San Clemente, CA: Kagan Publishing.
Kagan, L., Kagan, M., & Kagan, S. (1997). Cooperative Learning Structures for Teambuilding. San Clemente, CA: Kagan Publishing.
Kagan, S. (2009). Cooperative Learning. San Clemente, CA: Kagan Publishing.
Martín-Monje, E. (2010). Interactive Materials, Collaborative Work and Web 2.0 in the context of ESP. In N. Talaván Zanón, E. Martín-Monje and F. Palazón Romero (Eds.), Technological Innovation in the Teaching and Processing of LSPs: Proceeding of TISLID’10, Facultad de Filología, UNED, Madrid, en formato CD.
Montaner, S. (2016). La competencia en producción escrita del inglés técnico mediante el Blogging (Investigación-Acción). In Actas del I Congreso Internacional de Enseñanza del Inglés en Centros Educativos (pp. 233-242). Madrid: CEU Ediciones.
Montaner, S. (2017). La competencia en producción escrita del inglés técnico mediante el Blogging (Estudio del caso). In Verbeia. Monográfico: La Enseñanza de lenguas y la educación multilingüe (pp. 84-102). Año III. Nº1.
Montaner, S. (2018a). La Competencia en Producción escrita en lengua inglesa mediante el Blogging en un entorno de Aprendizaje Basado en Proyectos (ABP) en la Enseñanza Secundaria Obligatoria. En Conference Proceedings EdunovaTIC2017, 2nd Virtual International Conference on Education, Innovation and ICT (pp. 1130-1138) Eindhoven, NL: Adaya Press.
Montaner, S. (2018b). Aplicación del Blogging y/o Google Docs para fomentar la competencia en producción escrita en la enseñanza del inglés. UTE. Revista de Ciències de l’Educació, 1, 43-59. doi: 10.17345/ute.2018.1.
Montaner, S. (2019). La producción escrita en la enseñanza del inglés para fines específicos mediante el Blogging: análisis del rango de la producción escrita. En C. Calle-Martínez & Slavka Madarova (Eds.), Focus on Learning: Contributions to the field of ESP (pp. 19-26)., Madrid: UCJC.
Montaner, S. (in press. a). La Competencia en Producción Escrita en lengua inglesa mediante el Blogging en un entorno de Aprendizaje Cooperativo en la Enseñanza Secundaria Obligatoria, in SEDLL’18.
Montaner, S. (in press. b). Written expression in English for Specific Purposes through blogging and cooperative learning, in AELFE’19.
Murray, L., y Hourigan, T. (2008). Blogs for specific purposes: Expressivist or sociocognitivist approach? ReCALL, 20(1), 82-97.
Pinkman, K. (2005) Using Blogs in the Foreign Language Classroom: Encouraging Learner Independence. The JALT CALL Journal, 1 (1), 12-24.
Pujolàs, P. (2017). Aprender juntos alumnos diferentes (Recursos). Barcelona: Octaedro.
Sevillano García, Mª L., y Vázquez Cano, E (2011). Educadores en Red. Elaboración y Edición de materiales audiovisuales para la enseñanza. Madrid: Ediciones Académicas-UNED.
Ward, J. (2004). Blog Assisted Language Learning: Push Button Publishing for the Pupils. TEFL Web Journal, 3(1), 1-16.
Wu, W. (2005). Using blogs in an EFL writing class. Paper presented at the 2005 International Conference on TEFL and Applied Linguistics. Retrieved on 12th April 2014 at www.chu.edu.tw/~wswu/publications/papers/conferences/05.pdf.
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Written production in EFL through blogging and cooperative learning at A-level. (2019). TEJUELO. Didactics of Language and Literature. Education, 31, 97-118. https://doi.org/10.17398/1988-8430.31.97
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