Blogs in writing skill

Abstract

Nowadays, the use of blog plays an important role in students’ language learning because it gives students the opportunity for sharing, reflecting, and promoting communication with readers. The purposeof this current investigation is to determine the impact of blogs on writing skills. This research study was a quasi-experimental design. The researcher worked with a single group of 28 students whose ages were from 20 to 23 years old. This investigation was carried out for 2 weeks in six meetings. The participants were students from the fifth semester at a public institution. The experiment consisted of apply to students some blogs in order to identify the writing subskills of the learners. To gather the results, the researcher applied a pre and post- test to identify the level of the writing skills proficiency before and after applying the use of blogs to improve students’ writing skills. Those standardized tests were taken from the Preliminary English Test (PET exam) that belongs to B1 English level. The results showed an improvement in learner’s writing skills after applying the use of blogs as treatment. In addition, the use of blogs had a positive impact on the development of students writing skills. Finally, the data collected were analyzed by using a T-students statistical to determine whether blogs contribute or no to the improvement of writing skills.