How can blogging in foreign language education improve pupils´ writing skills? A research synthesis

• Main Author: Karlsson, Anna
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS) 2015
• Subjects: blogs; Facebook; foreign language writing; foreign language teaching; foreign language learning; writing skills; asynchronous computer mediated communication; Humanities and the Arts; Humaniora och konst
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-35974

The purpose of this research synthesis is to investigate how using blogs and Facebookin foreign language teaching can improve pupils´ writing skills in the target language.According to the theoretic framework around which the results of this researchsynthesis are organized, linguistic, pragmatic, intercultural and strategic competence arepart of writing skills. The results show that out of the 8 studies included in the researchsynthesis five showed an improvement in linguistic competence, three out of those fiveshowed an improvement in pragmatic competence as well, and another three studiesalso showed an improvement in pragmatic competence. None of the studies showed animprovement in intercultural or strategic competence.