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Research Paper | Linguistics | India | Volume 5 Issue 4, April 2016
The Impact of Weblog on ESl Student's Academic Grammar Proficiency
Mansoureh Saeidpoor Sarcheshmeh [2] | Radhakrishnan Nair
Abstract: Learning English through computer-based such as weblog makes easy to complete students assignment from anywhere they have access to the internet, and also allows them to attend classes from everywhere in the world. The aim of this paper is to examine the use of weblog on Indian ESL Students Academic Grammar Proficiency on part of speech, such as Noun, Verb, Adjective, Adverb, Preposition and Conjunction in two different English classes which applied two different modes of teaching, which were the traditional face-to-face method and web-based learning method and also to determine the best method in learning grammar. The researcher has selected randomly 40 Female and male students for 4 weeks of instruction from the Linguistic department of Kerala university. The pretest-posttest study was conducted in both groups. For each subject, six questions each carrying one mark in the form of multiple choice items asked to be answered by the students, namely, 36 marks for the whole components of this study. By using ANOVA, Average standard Deviation, Regression, Multiple Classification Analyses, t-test, the data were analyzed in detailed. The results obtained from the tests showed that there is a direct significant effect in enhancing performance of the advance learners to ESL Grammar skill.
Keywords: Weblog, ESL learners, Grammar Skill, Technology
Edition: Volume 5 Issue 4, April 2016,
Pages: 203 - 206