Language learning can be fun, because students have wide access through the Web, where they can take part in online grammar games and receive immediate feedback, and where they have a learning space that allows them to post the progress of work with reflection through blogs. There are many benefits of using blogs to enhance the learning experience. One is for students to strengthen their digital fluency. However, despite having greater opportunities to write and provide peer comments through blogs, students do not just interact with each other; they need more structure and guidance.
Motivation, engagement and quality of writing through blogs
1. Dr Paula Hodgson Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong Dora Wong Department of English, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License .
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9. Table A . Number of blog activities of the three seminar groups * Comments can be made by group members and peers from other seminar groups or students from the previous cohort. **by 26 persons making cemments *** by 30 persons making cemments *Comments can be made by group members and peers from other seminar groups or students from the previous cohort. **by 26 persons making cemments *** by 30 persons making cemments Blog activities Sem. Group 1 Sem. Group 2 Sem. Group 3 Total (1) postings 101 149 191 441 (2) *comments by peers 0 **68 ***53 121 (3) viewing 80 53 70 203 386 170 44 765
10. a The average is taken by the number of persons making comments b The average is taken by the number of members who have viewed (N=16) c The average is taken by the number of members who have viewed (N=21) d The average is taken by the number of members who have viewed (N=17) Blog activities Sem. Group 1 Sem. Group 2 Sem. Group 3 Average (1) postings 5.05 6.77 10.61 7.35 (2) comments by peers 0.00 a 2.62 a 1.77 2.16 (3) viewing b 5.00 c 2.52 d 4.12 3.76