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8/3/2019 Using BALL to Develop Writing Skills: Students Interest and Perception
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The 5th International Seminar 2011 SWCU
November 21, 2011
Parlindungan Pardede
Universitas Kristen Indonesia
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Outline
Introduction
Literary Review Methodology
Results and Discussion
Conclusions &
Reccommendations
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Weblogs (or blogs) are a recent but rapidly popularinternet application.
Emerged in 1998, blogs grew to more than 200 millionin 2009.
An easy to use online space for writing, blogs can bevery advantageous to language teaching and learning,because they
a. provide learners with genuine writing practice
b. offer a venue in which they can reflect, comment,question, review, and communicate outside theclassroom in an authentic environment
c. provide an alternative way of communicating withteachers and peers
d. provide an opportunity to create a virtualcollaborative classroom environment
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Despite blogs great potential, the useblogs in writing classes is new. To beeffective, it requires us to know:
the what and the how of blogs, how blogs can fit with our
understanding of writingdevelopment and how it can best
support our pedagogical practice,
what our students think and feelabout the use of the new technology.
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To explore students interest andperception on the use of BALL (Blog
Assisted Language Learning) as anadditional component in writing skillsdevelopment
To asses whether the respondentsinterest and perception in the use ofBALL are correlated or not.
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Literary Review
Five influences of using blogs for students in English writing (Zang,2009):
a. facilitate the students critical thinking skills.
b. provide examples for students to model and to learn
c. encourage students to enhance their writing quality.
d. facilitate meaningful learning for students
e. give students a purpose for writing.
Students preferred to write on the weblog than the traditional ways,
and weblogs can improve English in the context of ESP (Arani,2005)
Blogs as web publishing tools can be used to improve the students
writing skills and improve other skills such as information searchingand literature review skills (Tekinarslan, 2008)
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1. Participants
Each group actively participated in both real and virtual
classes (blog). Assessment: 20% for regular attendanceand participation in real classroom; 20% for regularassignment posting in blog; 30% went for mid-term testposted in the blog; 30% went for the final test in realclassroom.
Groups Attended Class n %
Freshmen Writing II (Paragraph Writing) 31 30.39
Sophomores Writing IV (Essay Writing) 26 25.49
Juniors Academic Writing 23 22.55
Seniors Cross Cultural Understanding 22 21.57
T o t a l 102 100
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2. Time: even semester of the 2010/2011Academic Year
3. Place: English Teaching Study Program of FKIP-UKI, Jakarta
4. Design: explanatory mixed method (gatheringqualitative input to explain and extendquantitative results for gaining a comprehensiveinsight of the research
5. Data collection techniques: Survey and Focused
Semi Structured Open-ended Interview
6. Data analysis technique: descriptive and thelinear correlation coefficient statistics
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Results and Discussion
GroupNever 1 year 2 years 3 years 4 years 5 years > 5 years
% % % % % % %
Freshmen 6.45 70.97 16.13 6.45 0 0 0
Sophomores 3.85 3.85 57.69 30.77 3.85 0 0
Juniors 0 0 4.35 82.61 8.70 4.35 0
Seniors 0 0 9.09 31.82 50.00 4.55 4.55
Total 2.94 22.55 22.55 35.29 13.73 1.96 0.98
Length of time using the internet before joining BALL
Most respondents has began to access internet as soon as they attended the university
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Place for getting internet connection to work in BALL
home
38%
campus
34%
mobile
phone16%
internetkiosks
8%
others4%
The participants could access the internet connection easily.
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Perception on the Use of BALL for Writing Skills Development
SD
4%
D
9%
N
25%A
62%
1. Blogging is effective to
develop writing skills
Yes, blogging is very useful and effective
to use to develop writing skills. Based on
my experiences, blog made it possible to
discuss with lecturers, friends and other
people. (Sophomore 1)
I like blogging very much. Not onlybecause it's something new but it also
provides me many useful gadgets and
resources which are helpful in writing.
(Junior 2)
Yes, blogging is very effective to develop
writing. This program, in which blogging
is combined with the conventional real
class is very wonderful. If I'm allowed, I'd
like to join it though I have graduated.
(Senior 1)
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Perception on the Use of BALL for Writing Skills Development
SD
9%
D
13%
N
22%
A
56%
2. accessibility of other
students writing ishelpful
Yes, reading my friends works was
cool because I was able to see
what they thought about things
we did not used to talk about in
class. (Junior 2)
I often found grammatical errors
in my friends postings, and I used
them to reflect my own works.
Thus, reading my friends writing isa good way to improve my writing
skills. (Freshman 3).
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Perception on the Use of BALL for Writing Skills Development
SD
9%
D
13%
N
22%
A
56%
3. Commenting and
giving feed-backs one toanother is helpful
I always found my friends feedback useful.
They made me realize weaknesses I was
not previously aware of. But receiving and
giving feedbacks are two different things. I
cant risk of hurting my friends feeling by
commenting to their errors in writing.
(Senior 3)
Feedbacks really helped me to produce
better writing. But for me it was usually
uncomfortable to show a friends errors.
(Sophomore 3)
Yes, its cool to get some feedback on what
Ive written However, Id rather not to
criticize my friends work. It might hurt their
feelings. (Junior 1).
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Perception on the Use of BALL for Writing Skills Development
SD
0%
D
4%
N
23%
A
73%
4. possibility to post
from anywhere andanytime helps to submit
assignments on time
Yes, this is the reason why I prefer
to submit my assignment throughthe blog than using a print-out.
(Junior 1).
It really helped me to submit my
assignment on time. (Freshman 2)
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Perception on the Use of BALL for Writing Skills Development
SD
4%D
5%
N
21%
A70%
5. Articles in the web
provide good models
Reading the huge number of blogs with
various types of article provide me with a
variety of styles and ideas to write.
(Senior 3)
To write like native speaker necessitates
you to read a lot of their works, and the
internet provides you with tons of such
articles. Before writing to discuss a topic,
reading some related articles will be
helpful. (Sophomore 2)
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6. Online writing manuals helps in using punctuations,
citation, and referencing
GroupSD D N A SA X
f % f % f % f % f %
Freshmen 6 19.4 10 32.3 5 16.1 6 19.4 4 12.9 2.74
Sophomores 2 7.69 5 19.2 6 23.1 10 38.4 3 11.5 3.26Juniors 1 4.35 1 4.35 5 21.7 11 47.8 5 21.7 3.78
Seniors 0 0 0 0 4 18.2 9 40.9 9 40.9 4.22
Those who responded strongly disagree and disagree to this statement
mainly belonged to the freshmen and sophomores who did not yet need
citation and references to finish their (paragraph and essay) writing
assignments. In contrast, the seniors who were assigned to write academic
articles always needed citation and references.
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Respondents Interest in the Use of BALL for Writing
Skills Development
StatementSD D N A SA X
f % f % f % f % f %
Write more productively
after joining BALL10 9.8 12 11.8 24 23.5 27 26.5 29 28.4 3.51
motivated to produce better
works because they areaccessible to everyone
4 3.92 6 5.88 16 15.7 40 39.2 36 35.3 3.67
Like blogging for the
availability of dictionaries,
thesaurus, and references
2 1.96 4 3.92 20 19.6 30 29.4 46 45.1 3.65
Prefer to discuss a topic via
blog than 'face-to-face 2 1.96 2 1.96 14 13.7 42 41.2 42 41.2 3.82
Blogging drives to check
diction and spelling more
carefully.
2 1.96 3 2.94 11 10.8 37 36.3 49 48 4.02
Blogging is rewarding due
to having large audience.8 7.84 16 15.7 20 19.6 36 35.3 22 21.6 3.35
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Clarification on respondents interest obtained from the interview
1. Preference to discuss a topic via blog than 'face-to-face
While speaking, you dont have much time to organize your ideas. On the
other hand, writing provides you much time to do it. (Sophomore 1) To be convincing, you need to explore and systematize your idea. You can do
it while writing but not while speaking. Thats why I feel more confident todiscuss a serious topic through writing than through speaking. (Junior 2).
2. Motivation to check word choice and spelling more carefully
Knowing that many people can read and possibly comment on my postingurged me to write more carefully. (Junior 3)
You know, in CCU class we were often assigned to write about Americanculture. Can you imagine what Americans will say if they found my postingsabout their culture are inaccurate and reckless? Such consideration alwaysdrive me to write more carefully in the blog. (Senior 1)
3. fondness to write in the blog due to having a large audience
Realizing that my works are read by many people is one of reasons why I likewriting on the blog. Its natural, isnt it?(Junior 1)
It was really cool when someone read not to mention cited what I wrote in hisblog. Thats why I always revised my works before posting them. (Senior 2)
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Correlation of Interest and Perception
The linear correlation coefficient analysis oninterest and perception correlation resulted thecoefficient (r) = 0.98. This indicates thecorrelation coefficient between respondents
interest and perceptions is very strong. By using = 0.05 and degree of freedom (df)= n-2,
the t-table= 1.986, whereas the tcount = 49.25
Since the tcount (49.25) > t tabel (1.986), it was
concluded that respondents interest andperceptions were positively and significantlycorrelated. This indicated that both variablessignificantly affected each other.
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Conclusions and Recommendations
The majority of the respondents viewed the use of BALL to developwriting interesting and effective.
The majority admitted they wrote more productively after joiningBALL.
The internet facilities (authentic articles and writing manuals) were
very helpful to produce good writing. Fellow students works were used as a mirror to prevent errors.
The greatest motivating factor for the respondents in writing in theblog is their realization that their works were visible to many peoplein the world. This awareness also motivated them to check wordchoice and spelling more carefully.
The students familiarity with internet browsing skills and their levelof writing mastery affected their interest and perception on theblogging activities.
Further researches to determine how to most effectively use blogs inorder to make better use of this interesting and authentic computer-
based resource are recommended.
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