Abstract
This study aims to find out whether EFL instructors at Saudi universities use blogs; whether EFL students blog about themes related to the Covid-19 Pandemic in EFL course; to show EFL instructors how a class blog can be used to blog about the Covid-19 Pandemic and to give examples of topics related to the Covid-19 Pandemic that can be utilized in blogging activities. Results of surveys showed that EFL instructors do not use blogs in their EFL courses and do not blog about the Covid-19 Pandemic in their writing courses. Therefore, this study presents a model for blogging about the Covid-19 Pandemic in EFL writing courses. Topics about the Covid-19 Pandemic are characterized by being current, familiar, tangible, specific and widespread. The students will have no problem in generating ideas and will only need to focus on organizing ideas, and linguistic aspects. A class blog can be selected and used as a supplement to in-class EFL writing instruction for freshman students. The students can search for articles, photos, or videos related to the Covid-19 topic assigned and write a short paragraph or s summary of the article or video and posted in the blog. They post questions, comments, reactions and feedback on their classmates’ blogposts’ form and content. The instructor serves as a facilitator while the students are blogging. She encourages the students to write and interact. The article ends with some recommendations for expanding the blogging activity of EFL students in writing courses.
Highlights
Blogs are important for technologists, teachers, parents, researchers, and professionals who are interested in computer-mediated communication
| ABSTRACT This study aims to find out whether EFL instructors at Saudi universities use blogs; whether EFL students blog about themes related to the Covid-19 Pandemic in EFL course; to show EFL instructors how a class blog can be used to blog about the Covid[19] Pandemic and to give examples of topics related to the Covid-19 Pandemic that can be utilized in blogging activities
This study aims to find out whether EFL instructors at Saudi universities use blogs in their EFL courses; whether they integrate themes about the Covid-19 Pandemic in their EFL instruction; whether their students use blogs to write about Covid-19 Pandemic topics; to show EFL instructors how a class blog can be used to blog about the Covid-19 Pandemic and distance learning (DL) in the past two years; give examples of topics related to the Covid-19 Pandemic that can be utilized for the blogging activities by EFL college students; describe the instructional phases with blogs; and the instructor’s role during the blogging activity
Summary
Blogs are important for technologists, teachers, parents, researchers, and professionals who are interested in computer-mediated communication. There are several types of blogs: (i) Personal blogs which are an ongoing online diary or commentary written by an individual; (ii) Collaborative blogs or group blogs written and published by more than one author They are based around a single uniting theme, such as technology, politics, education, or advocacy; (iii) Microblogging i.e., posting small (short) pieces of digital content such as text, links, pictures, short videos, or other media on the Internet; (iv) Corporate and organizational blogs used for non-profit organization, business, or governmental purposes. They can be classified by genre or subject such as health, travel, politics,
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