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Document Type
:
Thesis
Document Title
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" THE EFFECT OF USING BLOGS TO ENHANCE ESL LEARNERS WRITING SKILL AT A SAUDI UNIVERSITY”
" تأثير استخدام المدونات الإلكترونية على مهارات الكتابة لدى طلاب اللغة الإننجليزية في جامعة الملك عبدالعزيز "
Subject
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English Language Institute
Document Language
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Arabic
Abstract
:
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the use of web blogs as a supplementary tool for teaching English. It focuses on studying the effectiveness of using blog exchanges enhancing the Saudi university students’ for English writing especially the vocabulary usage. The participants of the current study were thirty seven Saudi female preparatory year students from the English Language Institute (ELI) at King Abdulaziz University (KAU). Their ages ranged between 18 to 20 years of age. All participants were studying level 103 of the Oxford Headway Plus curriculum, at the third quarter of the academic year 2015-2016. The participants were only females because of the restrictions in the educational system of Saudi Arabia which does not permit coeducation and gender mixing. The study hypothesized that there is a positive impact of using web blogs as a supplementary tool in improving the students’ writing skills, especially the use of vocabulary. This research reports on an experimental design study using a quantitative approach. The study also used blog entries and pre/post-tests as primary data collection methods. The pre-test and post-test consisted of 50 vocabulary scale test items. They were taken to measure the differences of participants’ writing performance after seven weeks of intervention. A paired-sample t-test was utilized for statistical analysis to determine if there were any improvements in the students’ writing performance. The findings indicated an improvement in the students’ writing performance after using the blog entries. In addition, the research experiment contributed to the extension of their vocabulary knowledge. Key words: writing skill – vocabulary knowledge – technology integration – Web blog –English Language Institute (ELI) – Saudi students
Supervisor
:
Dr. Badia Muntader Hakim
Thesis Type
:
Master Thesis
Publishing Year
:
1439 AH
2018 AD
Added Date
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Wednesday, May 30, 2018
Researchers
Researcher Name (Arabic)
Researcher Name (English)
Researcher Type
Dr Grade
Email
أمل فلاح السبيعي
Al Subaie, Amal Falah
Researcher
Master
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43432.pdf
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