Summary Writing 4

INTEGRATING FEEDBACK INTO PROSPECTIVE ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS’ WRITING PROCESS VIA BLOGS AND PORTFOLIOS   

The collaboration between blog  and portfolio  writing instruction have positive contributions to the development of writing skill in English language contexts. Having been actively engaged in blogs and portfolios in and out of writing classes showed that participants in the study were able to develop their writing competency. Prospective teachers of English held positive views of portfolio keeping and blogging as effective tools in this particular writing course. The practice of portfolio help student and teachers overcome their writing anxiety (Öztürk & Çeçen, 2007) as reports that in a reading-writing course, keeping portfolio resulted in more student motivation towards writing in English. Lan, Hung, and Hsu (2011, p.148) tell that the effect of rich media guided writing strategy and also pen-and-paper guided writing strategy and concluded that a web-based learning environment with high richness media could guide students to write and achieve more positive writing attitudes in terms of motivation, enjoyment and anxiety.