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Type :thesis
Subject :LB Theory and practice of education
Main Author :Syaiful Azham Kamarul Zaman
Title :The use of blogs in improving narrative writing among primary school students
Place of Production :Tanjong Malim
Publisher :Fakulti Bahasa dan Komunikasi
Year of Publication :2018
Corporate Name :Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris
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Abstract : Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris
The  aim  of  this  research  was  to  investigate  the  effectiveness  of  using  blogs  in  improving ESL narrative writing among primary school students in a school in Perak, Malaysia. The  participants were 30 Year Six students. There were four main objectives in  this  study.  Firstly,   the  study  was  to  investigate  how  the  use  of  blogs  helps  in improving  students’   narrative  writing  performance.  Secondly,  it  was  to  find  out  the students  perceptions   towards  the  use  of  a  teacher’s  blog  in  writing  their  narrative essays. Thirdly, the study  was also to discover the roles of teachers, peers and parents that  help  students  in  the   blogging  process.  Lastly,  it  was  to  identify  the  positive  or negative  outcomes  that   students  have  when  they  use  blog  that  support  narrative writing.  The  study  employed  a   quantitative  and  qualitative  research  design.  The instruments  of  the  study  included  a   pre-test  and  a  post-test,  questionnaires,  and interview. The data obtained from the pre-test  and post-test showed that there was a significant difference on students’ performance in their  narrative essays. The students have  improved  their  writing  quantity  and  writing  quality   especially  in  language  use, content  and  vocabulary.  The  findings  revealed  the  perception   of  students  towards blogs.  They  showed  high  interest  in  blogging  (88.3%)  and  felt  more   positive  about writing  narrative  essays  (80.8%).  The students  also felt  that  they gained  more  ideas (76.8%),  improved  their  grammar  (78.3%),  vocabulary  (76.8%),  punctuation   (76.8%) and benefited a lot from the blogs. Apart from that, the study also found that roles of  peers were more influential than the roles of teachers and parents in using blogs as medium of  teaching and learning (83%). The findings from the interview analysis with the teachers’ also  revealed that there are great positive outcomes when the students used blog in their narrative  writing. These results suggest that the use of blogs has a potential for improving students  performance in their narrative writing. As a conclusion, the study has shown positive evidence  towards the use of blogs in improving students’ narrative writing performance. Among the  implications of the study are that the use of blogs require better ICT facilities and changes in  teaching and learning pedagogy in a technology-based teaching and learning approach.  

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