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Handbook of Research on Web 2.0 and Second Language Learning
This is a social aggregating site that allows users to keep track of all of their favourite web sites. One of its main features is that it allows users to easily share their favourites with others by using an accessible public space.
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Blogging in Foreign Language Education
Nat Carney (Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 21
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-190-2.ch016
Abstract
This chapter gives a comprehensive overview of blogs in Foreign Language Education (FLE) through reviewing literature, critically analyzing potential benefits and concerns about blogs, and suggesting research needed to better understand blogging’s influence on language learning. The chapter begins with a discussion of Web 2.0’s potential impact on FLE and a detailed description and definition of blogs. Following this a comprehensive literature review of blog use in FLE and a critical examination of blogging’s potential benefits and problems in key areas of FLE is offered. Finally, future trends for blogs and further research areas are suggested. Though blogs are a tool that have received relatively minimal attention in FLE literature to date, this chapter argues that blogs can be an important hub of learning in Web 2.0.
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