I've recently started a new web site: Blogs for learning English & teaching English. The feedback I've gotten so far has been very positive, but I'd certainly love to hear more. The basic premise is that students can communicate with native speakers about topics they find personally interesting through weblogs with comments.
To that end I've been emailing bloggers and asking if they would welcome comments from English learners. When I get a postive response, I add the blog to my directory of ESL & EFL friendly blogs.
A few other intersting resources for blogging: http://blog-efl.blogspot.com/ is a blog about blogging in EFL. http://iteslj.org/Techniques/Campbell-Weblogs.html is an article that discusses learner blogs, class blogs, and tutor blogs. I created my site around a fourth kind, normal blogs (blogs written for purposes other than education).
Posted by James Trotta at May 3, 2004 12:54 PMAs a future ESL teacher investigating the pedagogical impact of blogs in the ESL classroom, I am very interested in the student use of this new site. In addition, how have you, or others, had used blogs in your classroom? Have you found that they improve the student's English skills? If so, how?
Posted by: julia at May 13, 2004 9:54 PMhttp://iteslj.org/Techniques/Campbell-Weblogs.html is an article about learner, class, and teacher blogs. I designed my site on authentic blogs (ones that were not designed for education).
In the future I plan to conduct online writing tutoring using these blogs to give students their writing practice but I haven't started it yet. At the moment the people visiting the site (25-30/day) are completely on their own).
Posted by: James Trotta at May 14, 2004 5:07 AMHello everybody.
I'm an Italian Englis student. I've just started a research for my dissertation on how to use weblogs in classrooms for teaching English as Second language and which are the benefits of that on students. I'll be glad to receive some tips on it, or even some links to this kind of blogs!
thank you in advance!
Barbara (Italy)
ESL blog is one of many Blogs for learning English & teaching English. Translation services information.