Summary writing 6

DEVELOPING WRITING ABILITIES

   OF EFL STUDENTS THROUGH BLOGGING

Blogging in the writing class can contribute to the improvement of students’writing abilities. The positive effect of using blogs in writing development was possibly due to the features of blogs that students can communicate with other audiences in authentic learning environment (Noytim, 2010, Juida & Bee, 2011). On blogs, students can post their messages both academic and non-academic, then they reflect their views or comments on their friends’ writing freely. Teacher and student relationship seems to improve through blogging .When using blogs, students can get feedback from other audiences, they have an opportunity to read things in which they are interested and write things they really want to . By so doing, writing assignment becomes an easy task while it used to be considered as a boring and difficult task before. Once a student was assigned a topic to write, they had to brainstorm and organize an outline of their writing with their team. While planning their writing, every member in the team will help together. They shareideas, comment and give feedback until they got their final writing. Students learn and share with their peers and teacher during the working process. Surprisingly, students who are low proficient learners or shy and quiet ones have more participation in doing tasks by using blogs. This is probably because they have more time to think carefully before writing and giving their responses (Galien & Bowcher, 2010). Students are active learners through blogging system, so using blogs in language classroom is beneficial and suitable for undergraduate students to enhance their writing performances.