CRITICAL READING 5

 

A CRITICAL READING OF “COMPARING THE EFFECT OF BLOGGING AS WELL AS PEN-AND-PAPER ON THE ESSAY WRITING PERFORMANCE OF IRANIAN GRADUATE STUDENTS”

Hajar Kashani, Rosnaini Binti Mahmud1 & Seyed Ali Rezvani Kalajahi

English Language Teaching; Vol. 6, No. 10; 2013

ISSN 1916-4742 E-ISSN 1916-4750

Published by Canadian Center of Science and Education

Educational techology have widely used to make an effective learning atmophere. Student usually tend to use modern method than traditional method. This phenomena have been spreaded fast in 21^th. As the Net-Generation, the student cannot be separated in using technology to support their education. Blogging is one of the prominent technologies that can be used to make writing become more interesting. The teacher can encourage the student to start writing and post the task in their blog then the teacher can give feedback to the student.

Kashani et.al did the study about this phenomena. They compared the effect of using traditional method ‘Pen-and-Paper’ with modern method ‘Blogging’. The finding showed that the effect of blogging made student more interested and more motivated in writing in spite of  the quality of the writing was not significantly increased. In line with the study, Armstrong & Retterer (2008) indicated that blogging cannot make the student improved their writing performance automatically but it could make student got their confidence in writing.

This technology can also be implemented in Indonesian college student but the implementation will be faced some problems. Some problems that will be faced such as the students have luck understanding about blogging. The teacher has to give information more about what blogging is and it will be take much time. The most common problem that will be faced is limited internet connection.

Actually, the problem can be minimized if there any college support. The college can provide good internet connection. Later, rapidly the student can learn how to blogging from internet.