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Juliaty, Hanna, and Agustina Dita. "Analysis on the Structure and Purposes of Travel Blog Posts." Language Circle: Journal of Language and Literature 15, no. 2 (2021): 317–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.15294/lc.v15i2.28792.
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Travel blogs have become a huge online platform used as a benchmark for Internet users to plan holiday itineraries, consider choices, and finalize travel-related purchase decisions. As popular travel blogs are often visited by online readers globally, there might be a shift in the purposes for writing travel blogs nowadays compared to traditional blog posts. Previous studies discussed the characteristics of blogs as a communicative platform; however, discussion on language features and blog structures used to achieve certain purposes of travel blogs is still scarce. This study, hence, aimed to evaluate the text structure and language function employed in popular travel blogs to determine their overall purposes. Eighteen posts were selected from six popular travel blogs and analyzed qualitatively by using Pascual’s (2018) blog structure moves and Jakobson’s (1960) language function framework. The findings showed that the travel blog posts consisted of four moves: situational, descriptive, closure, and invitational moves and that most of the moves mainly employed referential and emotive functions. Hence, the main purposes were to provide information on travel destinations and to express the bloggers’ feelings towards their travel experiences. The findings implied that the purposes of popular travel blog posts nowadays are related to the role of blogs as a source of information and the role of travel bloggers as social influencers in the online community.
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Buendgens-Kosten, Judith. "“Please Check for Grammar.”: Code-Alternations in a Language Learning Blogging Community." Journal of Language Contact 9, no. 1 (2016): 71–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/19552629-00901004.
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This paper looks at code-alternations in the language-learning blogging community “Lang-8”. In this community, users write blog posts in their target language and receive feedback and corrections from native speakers. 116 blog posts with the target language English are analyzed in detail. Around 2/3 of those blog posts avoided all code-alternations. Among the remaining third, the most frequently observed type of code-alternation involved translation of part or all of the blog post (interlinear translationanden bloc translation), or switches motivated by lexical need (complex lexical gaps). Quoting, other sentence-level switches and word-level switches for meta-linguistic discussion were rare.The author argues that technological affordances, different understandings of one’s audience and of the language learning process, and, to a limited degree, community norms, shape code-alternations and their avoidance.
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Niu, Shuo, D. Scott McCrickard, Timothy L. Stelter, Alan Dix, and G. Don Taylor. "Reorganize Your Blogs: Supporting Blog Re-visitation with Natural Language Processing and Visualization." Multimodal Technologies and Interaction 3, no. 4 (2019): 66. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/mti3040066.
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Temporally-connected personal blogs contain voluminous textual content, presenting challenges in re-visiting and reflecting on experiences. Other data repositories have benefited from natural language processing (NLP) and interactive visualizations (VIS) to support exploration, but little is known about how these techniques could be used with blogs to present experiences and support multimodal interaction with blogs, particularly for authors. This paper presents the effect of reorganization—reorganizing the large blog set with NLP and presenting abstract topics with VIS—to support novel re-visitation experiences to blogs. The BlogCloud tool, a blog re-visitation tool that reorganizes blog paragraphs around user-searched keywords, implements reorganization and similarity-based content grouping. Through a public use session with bloggers who wrote about extended hikes, we observed the effect of NLP-based reorganization in delivering novel re-visitation experiences. Findings suggest that the re-presented topics provide new reflection materials and re-visitation paths, enabling interaction with symbolic items in memory.
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Murray, Liam, and Tríona Hourigan. "Blogs for specific purposes: Expressivist or socio-cognitivist approach?" ReCALL 20, no. 1 (2008): 82–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0958344008000719.
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AbstractThis paper represents an earnest attempt to identify specific pedagogical roles for blogs in language learning. After briefly describing various types of blogs and defining their purposes (Herring et al., 2005) we attempt to accommodate their position and application within language teaching (Thorne & Scott Payne, 2005), relating evidence from teachers' blogs (Edublog.org) and also within Second Language Acquisition (SLA) theories. In particular, we shall be concentrating on the process and post-process writing approaches (Matsuda, 2003), with particular emphasis on current cognitivist (Atkinson, 2003; Ferris & Hodgcock, 1998) and expressivist (Berlin, 1988) theories. These approaches will be discussed in terms of their effectiveness when establishing specific blog writing tasks. Whilst some researchers have advocated for a ‘lead blog’ or template for other students to follow (Stone, 2004), we have been seeking an eclectic approach based on the three approaches mentioned above. We shall describe our own blended task methodology (Abermann, 2004; Thorne, 2003) wherein language students at a Third Level Institution were set a blog writing task initially over a complete semester (12 weeks). The blog exercise employed both an early expressivist approach and later a (socio-) cognitivist one. Our findings, with examples from students' blogs (and also from students who continued their blogs over a 6 month period), will be presented as well as our recommendations for the integration of blogs into L2 virtual writing environments.
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Hussin, Supyan, Rehab Omar Salem Aboswider, Noriah Ismail, and Soo Kum Yoke. "Exploring Instructors’ Rationale and Perspectives in Using Blogs as a Tool for Teaching English as a Second Language." English Language Teaching 9, no. 10 (2016): 142. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/elt.v9n10p142.
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<p>Embedding web-based learning systems in education has drawn increasing popularity and growing interest among the contemporary language education community in recent time. In particular, blogs have become a profound phenomenon in the present landscape of online education. However, research addressing the instructor’s perspective about the engagement of blog technology in second language education is still lagging behind. The current study seeks to explore and survey the perspectives of six Malaysian academicians on the use of blogs in teaching English as second language to Malaysian students at higher education institutions. A qualitative approach was adopted to collect responses from the participants via a semi-structured interview. In addition, a checklist of features of the blog was used to investigate the blogging activities in the courses conducted by the participants. The collected data from the interview were analyzed qualitatively, whereas the blog checklist data were analyzed quantitatively. The obtained results indicated that the surveyed instructors had a positive reflection on using blogs in the teaching and learning of the English as second language.</p>
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Lee, Lina. "Fostering reflective writing and interactive exchange through blogging in an advanced language course." ReCALL 22, no. 2 (2010): 212–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s095834401000008x.
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AbstractBlog technology is a potential medium for encouraging reflective writing through self-expression and interactive exchange through social networking. This paper reports on a study using blogs as out-of-class assignments for the development of learners’ language competence. The study involved seventeen university students at advanced level who kept personal blogs over a14-week period. Data collected from blog pages, post surveys and final interviews reported affordances and challenges of using blogs for personal expression and collaborative interaction. The results showed that regularly creating blog entries had a positive impact on learners’ writing fluency and increased their motivation to write for a broad audience. Importantly, a four-skill integrated approach to task-based activities afforded opportunities for students to use the target language for blogging. The findings also indicate that peer feedback on the content prompted further discussion, whereas linguistic feedback from the instructor encouraged focus on form for language accuracy. The study concludes that learners’ critical thinking and technological skills are essential for the implementation of blog projects in L2 instruction.
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Ducate1, Lara C., and Lara L. Lomicka. "Adventures in the blogosphere: from blog readers to blog writers." Computer Assisted Language Learning 21, no. 1 (2008): 9–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09588220701865474.
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Williamson, Rachel, and Rebecca Jesson. "Log on and blog." English Teaching: Practice & Critique 16, no. 2 (2017): 222–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/etpc-03-2017-0036.
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Purpose This paper aims to investigate the viability of blogging over the summer holidays as an intervention to ameliorate the Summer Learning Effect (SLE) in writing. The SLE is the impact on achievement of taking a break from school over summer, and has been documented to affect differentially those students who come from low socioeconomic status (SES) communities compared with their more affluent peers. However, previous studies within similar communities suggest that the effect is not inevitable, and is amenable to intervention. Design/methodology/approach The present study is set in a group of low SES schools where students already have individual learning blogs. The Summer Learning Journey was designed by the research team in consultation with students and teachers from the schools and trialled in January 2015. The design of the programme drew on previous research that suggested that students would be motivated by interest, rather than achievement, and that literacy activity over summer should be leisure-based. Findings Initial evidence suggests that students who participated made measurable improvements compared with their own progress over the previous summer and also compared with a matched control group of students, and that the observed difference continued over the 2016 school year. Research limitations/implications The study provides initial evidence of quite substantial differences in achievement for those students who were active bloggers. Originality/value The study provides an alternative direction from current summer learning programmes and indicates the potential for designing digital opportunities for learning at times when the school is not in session.
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Abu Bakar, Nadzrah, Hafizah Latif, and Azizah Yaacob. "Fusion of Technology with Language Learning: Blog Community." 3L The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies 23, no. 4 (2017): 200–211. http://dx.doi.org/10.17576/3l-2017-2304-15.
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Lutzky, Ursula, and Andrew Kehoe. "Your blog is (the) shit." International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 21, no. 2 (2016): 165–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.21.2.02lut.
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The study of swearing has increased in the last decade, diversifying to include a wider range of data and methods of analysis. Nevertheless, certain types of data and specifically large corpora of computer mediated communication (CMC) have not been studied extensively. In this paper, we fill a gap in research by studying the use of swearwords in blog data, and illustrate ways of identifying swearing in a large corpus by taking context into account. This approach, based on the examination of shared and unique collocates of known expletives, facilitates the distinction of attestations of swearing from non-swearing in the case of polysemous lexemes, and the analysis of overlaps in usage and meaning of swearwords. This work therefore goes beyond basic sentiment analysis and offers new insights into the use of collocation for refining profanity filters, providing innovative perspectives on issues of growing importance as online interaction becomes more widespread.
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Swann, Joan. "Blog: Language: A Feminist Guide. Blog authored by Deborah Cameron, Oxford University, U.K. https://debuk.wordpress.com/." Journal of Sociolinguistics 23, no. 1 (2019): 105–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/josl.12321.
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Darvin, Ron. "Blog: Belonging, Identity, Language, Diversity (BILD)/Langage, Identité, Diversité, Appartenance (LIDA). http://bild-lida.ca/blog/." Journal of Sociolinguistics 23, no. 1 (2018): 109–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/josl.12323.
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Lee, Lina. "Learners' Perceptions of the Effectiveness of Blogging for L2 Writing in Fully Online Language Courses." International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching 7, no. 1 (2017): 19–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijcallt.2017010102.
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The study explores how the application of blog assignments facilitated the L2 writing process and how blogging affects the way students view blog-based L2 writing instruction and peer feedback. The results showed that beginning students had a positive attitude toward the use of blogs because it gave them agency over their learning, and engaged them in co-construction of knowledge with their peers. While scaffolding through peer feedback affected students' self-regulated efforts to make improvement on written content and increase language accuracy, strategies for effective use of feedback from the instructor was important. This study concludes that blogging not only empowers students to be creative with the content, but also promotes attention to language forms. L2 educators are strongly encouraged to take full advantage of the widely available blog technology by incorporating it into their teaching methods to further promote critical reflection and collaborative interaction within socially bounded online learning environments.
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Wiktorsson, Maria. "How hybrid is blog data? A comparison between speech, writing and blog data in Swedish." Nordic Journal of Linguistics 41, no. 3 (2018): 367–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0332586518000185.
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The new forms of written online communication offer a great resource for researchers interested in language variation and use, but more large-scale systematic research into the nature of the data is needed. For instance, Swedish blog data is often described as more informal and spoken in nature than traditional edited written material but overall systematic comparisons are lacking. This short communication contributes systematic comparisons between blog data and spoken and written registers by comparing measures such as type/token ratios and word frequencies. Type/token ratios of blog texts are found to lie between those for interactive speech and formal edited writing, whereas the distribution of words from different frequency bands is closer to the written material. Comparison of the ten most frequent word forms indicates that blog data resembles formal edited writing from a structural perspective, but also suggests that further studies into features of personal involvement may provide additional insights.
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Visiaty, Arianty. "Blog sebagai Media Pembelajaran Mengarang Bahasa Jepang." JURNAL Al-AZHAR INDONESIA SERI HUMANIORA 3, no. 3 (2017): 246. http://dx.doi.org/10.36722/sh.v3i3.212.
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<p><em>Abstrak</em> – <strong>Salah satu masalah yang dihadapi pembelajar bahasa Jepang di Indonesia adalah kurangnya kesempatan untuk berkomunikasi dalam bahasa Jepang. Salah satu media belajar untuk mengatasi hal ini adalah Blog. Penelitian ini memfokuskan pada manfaat dan kendala penggunaan blog dalam pembelajaran mengarang bahasa Jepang. Hasil dari penelitian ini adalah, 1) Manfaat dari penggunaan blog dalam pembelajaran mengarang bahasa Jepang, terdiri dari 4 kategori, yaitu manfaat yang terkait dengan pengetahuan bahasa, isi blog, komentar, serta kerjasama antar pembelajar, 2) kendala yang dihadapi pembelajar pada kegiatan blog, terdiri dari 9 kategori, yaitu kendala yang terkait dengan pengetahuan bahasa, teknologi dan jaringan, tema, komentar, waktu, koreksi, isi blog, dan kepercayaan diri.</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong><em>Kata Kunci</em></strong>: <em>Blog, Pelajar Jepang di Indonesia</em></p><p> </p><p><em>Abstract</em> – <strong>One of the problems faced by Japanese leaners is opportunity to communicate using Japanese Language. This study focuses on benefits and problems faced by learners during blog writing activities. The results of this study are as mentioned below. There are four categories of benefits on writing blog in Japanese. Those benefits are related to Japanese language knowledge, blog content, comment activities, and leaners collaboration. Therefore, there are eight categories of problems on writing blog in Japanese. Those problems are problems that related to Japanese language knowledge, blog technology and network, blog topics, comment activities, time, blog correction, blog content, and self-confidence. </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong><em>Keywords</em></strong> –<em> Blog, Indonesian Japanese Learners</em></p>
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Coppens, Xulian, Mercedes Rico, and J. Enrique Agudo. "Using Blogs: authentic material and ranking quality for SLA." EuroCALL Review 21, no. 1 (2013): 20. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/eurocall.2013.10160.
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<p>Exposure real life language experiences forms an integral part of the acquisition process. Authentic materials – those derived from the culture of the target language rather than specially produced for language learners – increase the relevance of the learning experience by reusing texts taken directly from the target culture. Web 2.0 technologies increase opportunities for bringing authentic materials into formal language learning environments by allowing material to be collected, reused and shared amongst language teachers and learners. This paper aims to look at the role of blogs in facilitating the use of authentic material by English language teachers and learners and the impact of the most authoritative blogs in the wider Web and in Social Media.</p><p>To reach this objective, the blog ranking site Technorati was used to select the most popular blogs for English language learners and teachers and each blog was analysed according to the authenticity of the cultural material used for language learning. The analysis reveals that 100% of the material on 56.25% of the blogs selected was authentic material and over 70% of the material on a further 35.3% of blogs was authentic.</p><p>Secondly, the impact of these blogs in the wider Web and Social Media was measured in order to draw some conclusions regarding the role of language learning blogs outside the world of blogging and the communities they serve and provide an image of the relationship between blogs and bloggers, the Web and Social Media.</p><p>The results show an inherent bias within Web 2.0 technologies towards providing contemporary authentic material for language learning – the technology itself encourages its use – and that sometimes blogs can have an impact beyond their communities through the Web and Social Media.</p>
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Plaskina, M. V. "USING A GROUP BLOG IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING." Tambov University Review. Series: Humanities 21, no. 7/8 (159/160) (2016): 51–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.20310/1810-0201-2016-21-7/8(159/160)-51-56.
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Mat Ali, Syahrir, and Pramela Krish. "Gender-Specific English Language Use of Malaysian Blog Authors." GEMA Online® Journal of Language Studies 16, no. 3 (2016): 21–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.17576/gema-2016-1603-02.
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Sulistyo, Teguh, Nur Mukminatien, Bambang Yudi Cahyono, and Ali Saukah. "Enhancing Learners’ Writing Performance through Blog-Assisted Language Learning." International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET) 14, no. 09 (2019): 61. http://dx.doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v14i09.9535.
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ABSTRACT-The present study aims at investigating how Blog-Assisted Language Learning (BALL) can enhance EFL tertiary learners’ writing performance covering complexity, accuracy, and fluency through collaborative action research while at the same time it seeks to discover new knowledge that can inform the implementation of BALL in a writing class. This study employed Collaborative Classroom Action Research conducted in one cycle in one consecutive semester intended to make improvement in the teaching and learning of writing using BALL. There were 30 students of a university level majoring in English Education Department who joined Advanced Essay Writing Class in this study. The data were collected through interview, open-ended questionnaire followed by in-depth interview, and writing test. The findings showed that EFL learners improve their writing performance and they become more active in online class condition with two atmospheres: collaboration and competition among the learners. 
 Keywords: BALL, EFL Learners, writing performance, action research.
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Nylund, Anastasia. "Blog: Language on the Move . www.languageonthemove.com. ISSN 2203-5001." Journal of Sociolinguistics 22, no. 4 (2018): 470–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/josl.12311.
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McIntosh, Ewan. "Blog Use in K-12 Scottish Foreign Language Courses." IALLT Journal of Language Learning Technologies 39, no. 1 (2007): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.17161/iallt.v39i1.8470.
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Huang, Hsin-Yi Cyndi. "Students and the Teacher’s Perceptions on Incorporating the Blog Task and Peer Feedback into EFL Writing Classes Through Blogs." English Language Teaching 9, no. 11 (2016): 38. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/elt.v9n11p38.
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<p>With the availability of Web 2.0 technologies, blogs have become useful and attractive tools for teachers of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in their writing classes. Learners do not need to understand HTML in order to construct blogs, and the appearance and content can be facilitated via the use of photos, music, and video files (Vurdien, 2013). To provide an authentic and motivating writing environment, a blog task was designed and integrated into three writing courses for 57 applied English or English major students at two southern Taiwan universities. Using the triangulated approach, this study collected data from three different angles (students’ questionnaires, students’ focus group interviews, and the teacher’s observation log) to investigate whether participant perceptions empirically supported the theoretical hypothesis that blogging contributes to writing performance. The findings showed that both the teacher and students had a positive attitude towards the blog task and may indicate that blogging is a useful alternative approach but may also be regular incorporated in writing classes to enhance EFL writing motivation. Nevertheless, blogs may not be the most suitable tool for all types of writing tasks and the most appropriate medium for all components of feedback. The conclusions of this study are consistent with previous findings on the practicality and potential of using blog software to promote peer feedback as well as to facilitate effective writing instruction.</p>
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Elgesem, Dag. "The Meaning of Links." Nordicom Review 40, s1 (2019): 65–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/nor-2019-0014.
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Abstract This article explores the potential and challenges of using hyperlinks as data through a study of polarization in English language blogs about climate change. The purpose of this research is to provide an interpretation of the meaning of the hyperlinks in climate change blogs by coding the functions that the links perform in the given blog posts. Beginning with a set of more than 500,000 blog posts about climate change, we focus on bloggers who actively link to highly visible sources that advocate, respectively, the denial or acceptance of the consensus view on anthropogenic climate change. We find that the bloggers in our sample predominantly link to sources that they agree with and that, if they link to a source with different opinions, the link is part of negative criticism of the targeted source. We argue that, by considering the functions of the links in the blog posts, we obtain a more nuanced understanding of the extent to which the discussion in the blogs is polarized.
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Dronov, Ivan. "Group blog as one of the modern Internet-technologies in foreign language teaching." Tambov University Review. Series: Humanities, no. 180 (2019): 61–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.20310/1810-0201-2019-24-180-61-69.
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The using of modern Internet-technologies in a foreign language teaching is one of the most promising areas from the standpoint of optimizing the educational process. We propose the author’s definition of the term Internet-technology, which refers to the multi-species system of in-teraction between a teacher and a student with using modern technical tools of the Internet, aimed at the realization of the tasks set by communication. Also group blog is defined as the most promising subtype of Internet-technologies. It was given the author’s definition as a collective blog in which students from one group publish their work for further discussion with the aim of developing thought-thinking skills. The constituent elements of the communication act, including the participants, purpose, theme, language tools and circumstances, are implemented with group blog using. The advantage of didactic properties and methodological functions of the group blog in the formation and development of the communication skills “reading”, “writing”, “speaking”, “speech” and “listening” is noted. Studied in the scientific research center type of blog is presented as a unified platform for communication and space for teamwork of users group and moderator. Based on the constant set of statuses and roles in the teacher–student dyad, the thematic focus of blog is determined by the moderator – completing of assignments, participation in discussion of published material, reflection on other users’ messages. We also examine the group blog as one of the modern Internet-technologies in foreign language teaching.
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Prasetiani, Dyah. "PENGEMBANGAN BLOG BUDAYA SEBAGAI SARANA BELAJAR BUDAYA." IZUMI 5, no. 2 (2017): 33. http://dx.doi.org/10.14710/izumi.5.2.33-38.
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Indonesia is a country that has a diverse culture, ethnicity, language, and rich tourism potentials. However, many people abroad who do not know about the diversity of Indonesian culture. The younger generations were much less aware of even less have sufficient of the richness of the culture of Indonesia. The knowledge about Indonesian culture of Japanese Language Education students Semarang State University, is still inadequate, so they can not be explained to the Japanese society apropiately, not good enough. Therefore students need to be given education by developing blog that contains Indonesian culture which is written in Japanese. The purpose of this study was developing a blog that can be a means of learning the culture. The method used is the Research and Development (R & D), with a step preliminary studies, product development, and product validation testing. Data was collected by questionnaire. Japanese expert validation results towards this blog are considered quite good as a means of studying Indonesian culture with an average score of 2.7 on the aspects of the format, quality, clarity, and clarity of language.
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Goźdź-Roszkowski, Stanisław, and Katarzyna Fronczak. ""You Don't Have Time to Think Up There. If You Think You're Dead" – A Corpus-assisted Study of Discursive Strategies to Engage Readers in Corporate Blogs." Research in Language 18, no. 1 (2020): 69–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/1731-7533.18.1.05.
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This study investigates recurrent language resources employed in corporate blogs to connect with readers and (to a lesser extent) express authorial positions. It is based on the premise that constructing identity and enhancing image underpins most, if not all, corporate discourse and blogs are no exception. Based on a corpus of 500 different posts (totalling 318,296 words) from the Business Process Outsourcing and Information Technology sectors, we use standard Corpus Linguistics (Partington et al. 2013) techniques (keywords, cluster analysis, concordancing) to identify linguistic features associated with the expression of engagement: reader pronouns and their co-occurrence with selected modal verbs, questions, adverbs marking shared knowledge and directives. These are then interpreted in in terms of a model of textual interactions proposed in Hyland (2005). We argue that the communication found in this relatively new and underresearched genre is essentially effected one-way establishing a pseudo-dialogue, with virtually no or very low level of interactivity between blog writers and blog readers.
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Alyunina, Yulia M. "Blog as a Source of Recent Anglicisms: Internet Discourse of Fashion." NSU Vestnik. Series: Linguistics and Intercultural Communication 17, no. 4 (2019): 78–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.25205/1818-7935-2019-17-4-78-91.
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The paper dwells on the possibility of using a blog as a source of recent English loanwords and their new meanings in the modern Russian language. In the frame of researching internet discourse of fashion, the article is focusing on studying blogs as a resource of finding new Anglicisms and their meanings, which are not included into dictionaries. The modern Russian language tends to intensify the process of borrowing English lexical units and their semantics, which brings about the need of their lexicographic description. In Russia, the most detailed and well-developed source of English loanwords is the Dictionary of Anglicisms of the Russian Language composed by A. I. Dyakov who included there both the loanwords and derived from them neologisms. Information technologies development and introduction of new platforms for Internet communication boost the assimilation of English loanwords and their meanings and necessitate familiarizing with modern resources for searching, researching and fixation of Anglicisms. In this work, blogs on fashion stand for the resource allocated on the «LiveJournal» platform. Given the intensification of both Anglicisms and their new semantics borrowing, the research is targeting not only on recent English loanwords study, but on the assimilated ones as well. The analysis of 280 blog texts from six blogs of 2014-2018 in Russian fashion discourse revealed a group of old English loanwords that show new meanings, not included into the Dictionary. Another finding is a group of recent derivatives, which demonstrate the efficiency of Russian word formation patterns and confirm the ability of the Russian language to assimilate foreign words by extending their stylistic and semantic potential by means of Russian affixation. This result allows us to conclude that a blog is a rich resource for researching borrowings. The prospect of allocating new loanwords and their derivatives in a specific discourse provides an opportunity for deeper understanding of the loanwords semantic assimilation by the Russian language.
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Rafiee Moghadam, Najmeh, and Mehry Haddad Narafshan. "Reading Comprehension: Blog Exposure in the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) Context of Iran." Journal for the Study of English Linguistics 5, no. 1 (2017): 56. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/jsel.v5i1.11429.
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The present study aims to provide experimental evidence on exploring the blogs to develop Iranian EFL learners' reading comprehension. To this end, forty intermediate female learners after taking the placement test were randomly assigned to control and experimental group. After twenty two sessions of blog exposure, a comparison of the reading test scores of the control and experimental groups revealed that EFL learners favor surfing the blogs which can act as an effective strategy of improving their reading comprehension.
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Alsubaie, Amal, and Abeer Ahmed Madini. "The Effect of Using Blogs to Enhance the Writing Skill of English Language Learners at a Saudi University." Global Journal of Educational Studies 4, no. 1 (2018): 13. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/gjes.v4i1.12224.
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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 for enhancing the Saudi female university students’ 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 study hypothesized that there is a positive impact of using web blogs as a supplementary tool in improving the students’ writing skill, 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 in participants’ writing performance after 7 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.
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Zou, Hang, and Ken Hyland. "Reworking research: Interactions in academic articles and blogs." Discourse Studies 21, no. 6 (2019): 713–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461445619866983.
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The blog is an increasingly familiar newcomer to the panoply of academic genres, offering researchers the opportunity to disseminate their work to new and wider audiences of experts and interested lay people. This digital medium, however, also brings challenges to writers in the form of a relatively unpredictable readership and the potential for immediate, public and potentially hostile criticism. To understand how academics in the social sciences respond to this novel rhetorical situation, we explore how they discoursally recontextualize in blogs the scientific information they have recently published in journal articles. Based on two corpora of 30 blog posts and 30 journal articles with the same authors and topics, we examine the ways researchers carefully reconstruct a different writer persona and relationship with their readers using stance and engagement model. In addition to supporting the view that the academic blog is a hybrid genre situated between academic and journalistic writing, we show how writers’ rhetorical choices help define different rhetorical contexts.
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Arochman, Taufik, and Rolisda Yosintha. "EFFECT OF USING WEB-BLOG ON WRITING INSTRUCTION FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS." Journal of Languages and Language Teaching 8, no. 4 (2020): 336. http://dx.doi.org/10.33394/jollt.v8i4.2797.
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This study was aimed to find out the effectiveness of an intervention using a Web blog to enhance the academic writing of English Language Learners. It tries to reveal whether there is any effect in the writing ability of the students taught using Web blog (online) and that of those taught without using it (offline). This study was classified as quasi-experimental research. The sample of this research was 64 students of X Unggulan Classes (XU1 and XU2) at the secondary school level in central java. Class XU2 was chosen as the Experimental Group taught using Web blog media as the treatment employed, whereas Class XU1 as the Control Group, which was not given the treatment (employed other media). Between the beginning and the end of the study, they were given three months of treatment. The results showed that there was an important effect in the writing ability of the students taught using Web blog and that of those taught without using it. It can be seen in the result of the hypothesis testing that the t-observed (2.028) is higher than the t-table (1.671).
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Pascual, Daniel. "Analysing digital communication: discursive features, rhetorical structure and the use of English as a lingua franca in travel blog posts." Journal of English Studies 16 (December 18, 2018): 255. http://dx.doi.org/10.18172/jes.3556.
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The digital world is currently offering new modes of communication that allow multiple opportunities for a more immediate and dialogical interaction. Within it, the blog shows up as a very resourceful and sophisticated genre where different sub-genres converge and where speakers from distinct linguacultural backgrounds can communicate through English, which is used as a lingua franca (ELF). Thus, to start comprehending the rationale of the blog, an analysis of the sub-genre of posts and, more specifically, those hosted in travel blogs, is provided in this paper. The linguistic and discursive prominent features encapsulated in travel blog posts will be explored through a data-driven approach, and their rhetorical structure will be identified via a functional analysis. This will allow to understand better how the ELF blogosphere makes use of such a digital sub-genre and what the readership may expect when communicating digitally through it.
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Bele, Nishikant, Prabin Kumar Panigrahi, and Shashi Kant Srivastava. "Political Sentiment Mining." International Journal of Business Intelligence Research 8, no. 1 (2017): 55–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijbir.2017010104.
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Investigations on sentiment mining are mostly ensued in the English language. Due to the characteristics of the Indian languages tools and techniques used for sentiment mining in the English language cannot be applied directly to text in Hindi languages. The objective of this paper is to extract the political sentiment at the document-level from Hindi blogs. The authors could not find any literature about extracting sentiments at the document-level from Hindi blogs. They extracted opinion about one of India's very famous leaders who was a prominent face in the national election of 2014. They prepared the datasets from Hindi blogs reviews. They purposed the lexicon and machine learning technique to classify the sentiment. Their purposed method used four steps: (1) Crawling and preprocessing the blog reviews; (2) Extracting reviews relevant to the query using the Vector Space Model (VSM); (3) Identifying sentiment at the document level using the Lexicon method, and (4) Measuring the result using the Machine learning technique. Their experimental result demonstrates the effectiveness of our algorithms.
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Łuczyk, Małgorzata. "СИНЕСТЕЗИЯ В КУЛИНАРНОМ БЛОГЕ КАК ПРОЯВЛЕНИЕ ЯЗЫКОВОЙ КРЕАТИВНОСТИ". Acta Neophilologica 1, № XX (2018): 17–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.31648/an.2682.
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This article attempts to analyze synesthesia in the culinary idiomatic discourse presented in Alexei Oniegin’s blog “Culinary Notes”. In the language employed in the blog synesthesia constitutes one of the author’s creative efforts, which involve the selection of appropriate language means, aiming to give it characteristics of difference, unconventionality and originality.
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Pacea, Otilia. "If Pandora had a Blog." International Journal of Signs and Semiotic Systems 4, no. 2 (2015): 15–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijsss.2015070102.
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In the context of internet genre migration and proliferation, conventional taxonomies are no longer valid. To classify blogs between thematic and personal blogs is to blissfully ignore the legions of successful content prosumers, from political blogs to travel blogs, from food blogs to MAD (mom and dad) blogs, from fashion blogs to milblogs. With the recent explosion of social media, the digital landscape shifted and today there are more voices online than ever before. For blogs, however, the original purpose for communication has always been twofold: to inform and to emote. Computer-mediated communication may be overpopulated with a myriad of mixed forms and blogs might be dead or simply, difficult to reach with so much overlapping. Yet high-impact blogs still remain and are widely read. This paper explores the language of high-impact blogs, testing a new methodology for genre analysis to solve genre hybridity in the case of computer-mediated discourse.
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Gordon, Cynthia. "“You might want to look up the definition of ‘continental breakfast’”: Other-initiated repair and community-building in health and weight loss blogs." Multilingua 38, no. 4 (2019): 401–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/multi-2018-0041.
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Abstract This study examines other-initiated repair as what has been termed a light practice, demonstrating how it facilitates interactivity and moments of community creation online. Specifically, I analyze user comments on expert-written blogs that appear on an English-language weight loss website, showing how posters collaboratively initiate, accomplish, and show appreciation for repair activities. These activities, which are, as in face-to-face conversation, typically mitigated through various linguistic strategies, are aimed at aspects of blog text (including vocabulary and amount of information provided), as well as the choice of accompanying images. I show how various people – commenters, a person profiled in a blog, and bloggers – all may play roles in collaboratively accomplishing repair and thereby engage in the community. In addition, I suggest that repair not only facilitates participation, but also simultaneously serves as a means of highlighting shared expectations, or what have been called cultural discourses, about expert-written blogs. In other words, in engaging in repair activities, participants create routine forms of interaction that also (re)affirm shared expectations among members of this community.
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Martín Rojo, Luisa. "BLOG: CITIZEN SOCIOLINGUISTICS, https://citizensociolinguistics.com/." Journal of Sociolinguistics 24, no. 1 (2019): 151–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/josl.12396.
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Petersen, Sobah Abbas, Monica Divitini, and George Chabert. "Identity, sense of community and connectedness in a community of mobile language learners." ReCALL 20, no. 3 (2008): 361–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0958344008000839.
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AbstractMobility can affect a learner's participation in different communities that support language learning. In this paper we report on our experience with supporting a course in which language students are encouraged to travel to a country where the target language is spoken. On the one hand, students who travel abroad get in contact with local communities,which can promote their learning of the language and the culture. On the other hand, they risk losing contact with their classmates and the support that they provide. In this context we introduced a mobile community blog with the aim of extending the learning arena and promoting the sharing of knowledge among the students, independently of their location. This paper discusses the design considerations for the blog and describes its use to support students' sense of community. An evaluation and analysis of the usage of the blog is presented. These results suggest that the learners lack an identity within the community of language learners and there was no sense of community among the members. Reflecting on these results, we suggest that while a blog might be an appropriate tool for promoting knowledge sharing, it lacks functionalities to promote connectedness among learners and foster their identity as a community.
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Malankhanova, Antonina E. "Teaching translation from Chinese to Russian by means of blog technology on the example of economic discourse." Tambov University Review. Series: Humanities, no. 186 (2020): 48–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.20310/1810-0201-2020-25-186-48-52.
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Today, the relevance of use of modern information and communication technologies (wiki-technology, blogs, podcasts, linguistic corpus), which have didactic features and methodic functions, in teaching a foreign language and translation is not in doubt. The translation of economic discourse from Chinese into Russian is in demand in the context of the expanding interaction of the two countries in the trade and economic sphere. In this connection, the need for training highly qualified specialists in translating economic discourse is growing. We present suggestions on teaching students how to translate economic discourse from Chinese into Russian language on example of using blog technology. When translating and teaching, it is necessary to take into account the difference in the organization of the structures of the Russian and Chinese languages. The listed types of modern information and communication technologies can meet the requirements for teaching translation from Chinese, which is structured as an isolating type. The focus is on the translation competencies development (linguistic, text-forming, communicative, technological competence, as well as special competencies, including economic component), based on the developed system of exercises. An algorithm is presented for organizing teaching translation of economic discourse from Chinese into Russian through blog technology, highlighting three main stages (preparatory, practical, and final) and a detailed description of the actions involved.
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Rivens Mompean, Annick. "The development of meaningful interactions on a blog used for the learning of English as a Foreign Language." ReCALL 22, no. 3 (2010): 376–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0958344010000200.
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AbstractThe use of a blog as a pedagogical aid for the learning of foreign languages is gaining support among teachers’ communities (Soubrié, 2006; Tomé, 2007) as it can help students develop online interactions and authentic productions. The current study is analysing the use of such a multimedia setting in a group of Master’s students in France, studying English as a Foreign Language, who had to keep a blog in groups of three or four, dealing with a specific topic of their interest. The introduction of such a tool was meant to motivate learners to practise written expression with an added value: the authenticity of the posted message, aimed not only at the teacher and the learning community but also made visible to the outside world.The aim of this article is to measure the pedagogical added value of such a blog for the development of written expression more specifically, and to see the potential to transform a real activity which is well-known to the younger learners’ community1 into a learning activity for the learning of English. The aims are in agreement with the principles of the Common European Framework of References for Languages (Council of Europe, 2001), which establishes specific goals for language learners with the implementation of ICT: task-based learning, authentic interactions or collaborative learning (Wenger, 1998).Three main aspects have been considered in this article:(i) a description of the way the interactions take place on the blog;(ii) an analysis of the motivating factors for such a publication online;(iii) reflection on the role of the tutor and on the place for feedback.A quantitative analysis of the interactions shows that the project is quite successful in terms of participation, as there are more posts on average than required in the pedagogical contract. Yet there are some disparities, concerning the level of activity from one blog to another and among the participants, that can be related to the role they undertake within the blog (do they prefer to post messages or comments, who are these for and why are they posted?) and to their level of motivation. Qualitatively, the project is also positively perceived: although the blog is not considered as a “real-life” one (the activity is perceived as a pedagogical one), the interactions are meaningful because they make sense for the learners who are fully engaged in the writing process and in the interactions. Finally, the place for feedback needs to be discussed, as the corrections online, although described as necessary, are also very often perceived as inhibiting and appear to be a critical element of the project.
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Chumak, Nataliia, and Tetiana Andrienko. "EDUTAINMENT IN TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGE TO GENERATION Z STUDENTS." Naukovì zapiski Nacìonalʹnogo unìversitetu «Ostrozʹka akademìâ». Serìâ «Fìlologìâ» 1, no. 10(78) (2020): 195–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.25264/2519-2558-2020-10(78)-195-197.
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The article deals with some new challenges that foreign language (FL) teachers face in the classroom while teaching the students of Generation Z. It also deals with edutainment as one of the methods in coping with those challenges. Nowadays Generation Z is the only generation of “digital natives” who have used digital technology since a very young age and are comfortable with the Internet and social media. These students like to experiment in learning, prefer visual learning, are good team players, they tend to have short attention spans, and prefer edutainment. Generation Z students appreciate learning if they consider it interactive with games and fun activities incorporated into the FL and curriculum. FL teachers need to use more technology in their teaching strategies. Teachers need to update their teaching strategies. They need to adopt more technology-based tasks, including visual content and to give students opportunities to feedback. It’s a good idea to start a class blog and think of reasons how students can use the class blog. Generation Z are multi-taskers so FL teacher can incorporate pictures, sounds, video into all the teaching activities. Students can also have listening, writing and speaking activities at the same time. FL teacher can also use such applications and resources as Kahoot!, Socrative, Pole Everywhere, Quizlet, YouTube, Instagram etc.
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Ormundo, Joana. "Comunicação mediada pelo computador: blog - gênero discursivo emergente." Cadernos de Linguagem e Sociedade 7 (November 17, 2010): 67–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.26512/les.v7i0.9746.
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This paper examines the language of the blogs from the point of view of Critical Discourse Analysis as it is conceived by Norman Fairclough. The main aim is to analyse discourse practices in the on-line context. The interactive process and the constitution of discourse community in blogs will be examined according to the genre analysis approach developed by Bakhtin (1997) and the concept of discourse community developed by Swales(1990).
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Zarei, Nafiseh, and Supyan Hussin. "Impact of Learning Management Blog on Students’ Language Learning and Acquisition." GEMA Online Journal of Language Studies 14, no. 03 (2014): 51–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.17576/gema-2014-1403-04.
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Rebrina, L. N. "German-Language Political Blogs as an Actual Protest Practice in Context of Mediation and Conflict Resolution Postulates." Nauchnyi dialog, no. 6 (June 29, 2020): 129–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.24224/2227-1295-2020-6-129-146.
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The results of a study of German-speaking opposition political blogs by V. Prabel and S. Wagenknecht as examples of relevant protest practices are presented in the article. System-communicative and integrative approaches are used. The characteristics of blogs that make up the subject and collective-personal dimensions of this protest practice in the context of mediation and the postulates of the Harvard School of Conflict Studies are described. The regularities of the discursive construction of the problem, the image of the complex addresser and the addressee of the blog are determined, their argumentative, evaluative, self-presentation and phatic tactics are used. The article shows the specifics of the formation of Internet solidarity, the reflection in the analyzed practice of the phenomenon of mediation at the level of society and the individual, including the manifestation of the attributes of the changing thinking of the subjects of communication, due to the globalization of information processes and the characteristics of modern mediation in the political sphere. The postulates of the concept of “principle negotiations” by R. Fisher and W. Ury, aimed at constructivizing the conflict, and their observance by the addresser and addressee of the blog are examined, which makes it possible to assess the satisfactory communication of the parties. The inherent features of blogs that are relevant to different conflict resolution strategies are described. The results contribute to the study of the contingence of technological and sociocultural changes and can be applied in the field of conflict management.
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Матюхина, Мария Викторовна. "SPECIAL FEATURES OF THE TEXTS ON THE BASIS OF TRANSHUMANISTIC ENGLISH-LANGUAGE BLOG “SKINTOUR”." Tomsk state pedagogical university bulletin, no. 4(210) (July 27, 2020): 30–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.23951/1609-624x-2020-4-30-37.
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Введение. Идея сверхчеловека оказалась как никогда актуальной именно на рубеже последнего тысячелетия. Отголоски мыслей о существовании «особенного» всемогущего человека новой эпохи встречаются в философской концепции трансгуманизма, направленной на улучшение качества и продления срока жизни, а так-же на предотвращение старения и смерти. Понятие трансгуманизма рассматривается не только как философская концепция, но и как всемирная организация. Идеи трансгуманизма воплощаются в текстах, посвященных продлению жизни и сохранению молодости человека, в том числе и в интернет-текстах. С широким распространением медийности во всех сферах жизни развитие языкознания вышло на новый этап – зародилась новая ветвь, названная медиалингвистикой. Объектом анализа нового направления выступает одно из ключевых понятий медиалингвистики – интернет-блог, являющийся интернет-жанром, который представляет собой сетевое пространство определенной тематики и содержит соответствующий информационный контент (тексты, изображения, мультимедиа). В выбранной модели анализа блога как интернет-жанра выделены медийные, прагматические, структурно-семантические и стилистико-языковые параметры. В рамках анализа данной работы стилистико-языковыми особенностями англоязычного блога SkinTour являются следующие: специфические названия статей в форме риторических вопросов, характерные лексические единицы (медицинские процедуры), лексика, используемая для номинации самих косметических средств; акронимы, антонимы, степень сравнения имен прилагательных. Материал и методы. Материалом послужил авторский исследовательский корпус текстов англоязычного блога SkinTour, из которого были отобраны 50 аутентичных статей. В теоретической части исследования описаны понятия трансгуманизма, блога и интернет-жанра; анализ материальной базы позволил синтезировать полученные сегменты научных фактов и знаний, накопленных предыдущими поколениями и современниками; были систематизированы параметры анализа. В практической части работы проанализировано лексическое и грамматическое наполнение текстов англоязычного трансгуманистического блога SkinTour. Методологическим основанием работы выступает системный подход, в работе реализуются следующие общенаучные методы: анализ, синтез, индукция, обобщение (методы логики); квантитативные методы, метод группировки (методы статистики); метод компонентного анализа (методы структурной лингвистики). Результаты и обсуждение. В связи с широким распространением медийности в самых разнообразных сферах человеческой деятельности наблюдается прирост количества продуктов «сетевого пространства», одним из которых является интернет-блог (далее блог). Подавляющая часть (около 90 %) проанализированных англоязычных блогов с тэгом Anti-aging (а их более 500) содержит в названии тэг Skin и ориентирована в основном на женскую половину населения, которая стремится ухаживать за проблемной кожей. Англоязычный трансгуманистический блог SkinTour также направлен на женскую аудиторию, содержит тысячи статей от эксперта в области медицины. В процессе анализа выделены медийные, прагматические, структурно-семантические и стилистико-языковые параметры блога как интернет-жанра. В рамках анализа стилистико-языковых параметров содержание англоязычного трансгуманистического блога SkinTour представлено лексическими особенностями (названия статей в форме риторических вопросов; частое использование терминов, обозначающих медицинские процедуры и косметические средства; акронимы; антонимы) и грамматическими особенностями (степень сравнения имен прилагательных). Заключение. Английский язык блогов – самобытное отражение современного виртуального мира. Благодаря многообразию языкового материала интернет-пространства, медиалингвистика представляет собой большое поле для лингвистических исследований. Неоднородность текстов медиасферы выступает залогом разно-аспектности анализа трансгуманистических блогов. Практика исследования текстов интернет-жанров должна проводиться с целью фиксирования новых лексических, грамматических, стилистических и других особенностей медийного репертуара английского языка. Introduction. The idea of Superman was more relevant than ever at the turn of the last Millennium. Echoes of thoughts about the existence of a “special” omnipotent person of the new era are found in the philosophical concept of transhumanism, aimed at improving the quality and prolonging the life span, as well as at preventing aging and death. The concept of transhumanism is considered not only as a philosophical concept, but also as a world organization. The ideas of transhumanism are embodied in texts dedicated to prolonging the life and preserving the youth of a person, including in Internet texts. With the wide spread of media in all spheres of life, the development of linguistics has reached a new stage – a new branch called media linguistics has been born. The object of the analysis of the new direction is one of the key concepts of media linguistics – an Internet blog, which is an Internet genre, which is a network space of a certain topic and contains relevant information content (texts, images, multimedia). The chosen model of blog analysis as an Internet genre highlights media, pragmatic, structural-semantic, and stylistic-language parameters. As part of the analysis of this work, the stylistic and linguistic features of the English-language blog “SkinTour” are: specific names of articles in the form of rhetorical questions, characteristic lexical units (medical procedures), the vocabulary used for nominating cosmetics themselves; acronyms, antonyms, the degree of comparison of adjectives. Material and methods. The material basis of the research was the author’s research corpus of texts of the Englishlanguage blog “SkinTour”, from which 50 authentic articles were selected. In the theoretical part of the study, the concepts of transhumanism, blogging and Internet genre are described; the analysis of the material base allowed to synthesize the obtained segments of scientific facts and knowledge accumulated by previous generations and contemporaries; the parameters of the analysis were systematized. In the practical part of the work, the lexical and grammatical content of the texts of the English-language transhumanist blog “SkinTour” is analyzed. The methodological basis of the work is a systematic approach, the following General scientific methods are implemented: analysis, synthesis, induction, generalization (methods of logic); quantitative methods, grouping method (methods of statistics); method of component analysis (methods of structural linguistics). Results and discussion. Due to the wide spread of media in a wide variety of areas of human activity, there is an increase in the number of products of the “network space”, one of which is the Internet blog (hereinafter: blog). The vast majority (about 90 %) analyzed English-speaking blogs tagged “Anti-aging” (more than 500) contains in the title the tag “Skin” and focused mainly on the female half of the population that seeks to care for problem skin. The English-language transhumanist blog “SkinTour” is also aimed at a female audience, containing thousands of articles from an expert in the field of medicine. In the process of analysis, media, pragmatic, structural-semantic and stylisticlanguage parameters of a blog as an Internet genre are highlighted. As part of the analysis of stylistic and language parameters, the content of the English-language transhumanist blog “SkinTour” is represented by the following features: lexical features: article titles in the form of rhetorical questions; frequent use of terms denoting medical procedures and cosmetics; acronyms; antonyms; grammatical features: the degree of comparison of adjectives. Conclusion. The English language of blogs is an original reflection of the modern virtual world. Due to the variety of language materials in the Internet space, medialinguistics is a large field for linguistic research. Heterogeneity of texts in the media sphere is the key to the diversity of analysis of transhumanistic blogs. The practice of studying texts of Internet genres should be carried out in order to fix new lexical, grammatical, stylistic and other features of the media repertoire of the English language.
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Khusniyah, Nurul Lailatul, and Lukman Hakim. "EFEKTIVITAS PEMBELAJARAN BERBASIS DARING: SEBUAH BUKTI PADA PEMBELAJARAN BAHASA INGGRIS." Jurnal Tatsqif 17, no. 1 (2019): 19–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.20414/jtq.v17i1.667.
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Abstrak: Penelitian ini menggambarkan efektifitas pembelajaran berbasis daring terhadap kemampuan mahasiswa dalam memahami teks berbahasa Inggris. Pembelajaran daring yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah pembelajaran yang memanfaatkan penggunaan web blog. Paparan pada artikel ini adalah bagian dari laporan penelitian tindakan kelas yang fokus utamanya adalah melihat efektivitas pembelajaran berbasis daring yang ditinjau dari dua pendekatan, yaitu perbandingan distribusi data dan uji-t pada data sebelum tindakan (pretest) dan setalah tindakan (posttest). Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa ada perbedaan kemampuan pemahaman mahasiswa terhadap teks berbahasa Inggris antara sebelum dan sesudah penggunaan web blog. Dalam hal ini, pembelajaran daring berbantuan web blog tersebut memberikan pengaruh positif terhadap peningkatan kemampuan membaca bahasa Inggris mahasiswa.
 Abstract: This study describes the effectiveness of online-based learning on the students’ ability to understand English-language texts. The online learning used in this study is learning that utilizes the use of web blogs. This article is a part of the report of a classroom action research which focuses on identifying the effectiveness of the online-based learning viewed from two approaches, namely the comparison of data distribution and t-test on the data before the treatments (pretest) and after the treatments (posttest). The results of the study show that there are differences in students' ability to understand English texts before and after the use of the web blogs. In this case, online learning assisted by the web blog has a positive influence on improving students' English reading skills.
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Özdemir, Emrah, and Selami Aydin. "Blogging Effect on English as a Foreign Language Writing Motivation." International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching 7, no. 2 (2017): 40–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijcallt.2017040103.
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Not many studies have been present on the effects of blogging, particularly with respect to English as a Foreign Language (EFL) writing motivation. Those studies did not focus on the effect of the use of blogs on Turkish EFL learners' writing motivation. Thus, this study aims to examine how the use of blogs affects EFL writing motivation among EFL learners in a Turkish EFL learning context. A questionnaire interrogating demographic information, a pre-test and a post-tests measuring writing achievement were administered to a group of participants including 48 language learners. According to results, blogging on its own does not increase motivation; however, the process-based writing instruction mainly has positive influences on EFL learners' motivation in both traditional pen-paper and blog environments. Thus, EFL teachers need to know that the use of blogs does not increase motivation among Turkish EFL learners. To increase their motivation level, it is also recommended that teachers should use a writing environment where their students are encouraged to write in the target language.
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Pascual, Daniel. "Learning English With Travel Blogs: A Genre-Based Process-Writing Teaching Proposal." Profile: Issues in Teachers´ Professional Development 21, no. 1 (2019): 157–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.15446/profile.v21n1.71253.
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Current communication is increasingly computer-mediated, dynamic, dialogic, and global, so students should master new information, communication technologies, and digital genres, as well as acknowledge the global role of the English language. Thus, this paper aims to offer a teaching proposal, to be ideally implemented in the secondary education English as a foreign language classroom, on how to develop students’ communicative and digital competences based on a digital genre like the travel blog. First, a corpus of travel blogs was compiled, and the blogs’ communicative purposes and prominent linguistic and discursive features were identified. Next, different lesson plans were designed on the principles of communicative language teaching and task-based learning, together with the corpus-based results. Overall, students are expected to follow a process-writing approach that enables them to interact digitally in travel blogs.
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Álvarez Álvarez, Alfredo. "Le blog, un outil du futur pour le présent." Recherche et pratiques pédagogiques en langues de spécialité - Cahiers de l APLIUT, Vol. XXV N° 3 (October 15, 2006): 8–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/apliut.3108.
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Poza, María Isabel Charle. "An Investigation of Language-Learning Strategies in a Blogging Task." IALLT Journal of Language Learning Technologies 47, no. 1 (2017): 58–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.17161/iallt.v47i1.8567.
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This study sought to identify the language-learning strategies employed by learners of Spanish while posting entries to a class blog. The project consisted of the development of a blogging activity and its implementation in an Intermediate Spanish course. In accordance with the literature’s recommendations about language-learning-strategy assessment, the study employed an actual-task strategy questionnaire which included open-ended questions, along with a checklist to identify the strategies used by participants while completing the blogging task. The analysis of the data revealed that participants employed a variety of strategies while posting their entries to the class blog. The most prevalent was the use of previous knowledge, which was mainly reflected in the choice of topic for blog entries made by participants. Participants also used the task-based strategy of re-wording and rephrasing to simplify the language and turned to available resources such as a Spanish-English dictionary, their textbook, the Internet, and help from friends or classmates. Additionally, participants used the metacognitive strategies of monitoring and evaluation to ensure the quality of their posts, coupled with the task-based strategy of applying general grammatical rules to specific blogging problems. Finally, the data analysis revealed that, contrary to the findings of previous research, students had some awareness of the existence of strategies that they could use to facilitate the blogging task.