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2023-09-01
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This study presents the results of a blogging project that was carried
out in UNED, the National Spanish University of Distance Education, in the
course English for Tourism II, from the Degree in Tourism, during the lockdown
in Spain in March-May 2020. This course, aimed at students who already possess
a B1 level (according to the CEFRL, 2001, 2018), intends to help them reach a
B2 level. UNED university is traditionally based on blended learning, but due to
the lockdown, that year was fully online. Blogging was implemented as an extra
activity. The project consisted of the following: students were invited to write an
entry for the course blog, created with the tool Blogger. They also had to
comment on each other’s posts, and there was a phase of peer review. Both a
quantitative and a qualitative analysis was carried out of their final exams and of
a mixed-type final post questionnaire. Quantitative results show that the rate of
success among the students who took part in this project was significantly higher
than those who did not. Qualitative results show a rise in the students’ motivation.
Thus, blogging proved to be an interesting resource to promote extra language
practice in a natural and motivating way, and participants reported it was a good
learning support during the lock-down period.
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COVID-19 pandemic, English for Specific Purposes, Blogging
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Moreno, A.I. (2023). On the Use of Blogging in the Classroom of English for Specific Purposes in Times of COVID-19 to Promote Written Skills: A Collaborative Approach. In: Arai, K. (eds) Intelligent Computing. SAI 2023. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 711. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37717-4_60
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Facultad de Filología
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Filologías Extranjeras y sus Lingüísticas