There are a ton of ways I can use blogging in my teaching. This will be a great tool to help my ESL students use everyday english and learn how to spell the words at the same time. I think an emergent english speaker will feel more comfortable blogging with other students about familiar things than writing things on notebook paper. Being able to blog with other ESL students will give the students a sense of freedom to talk about similar likes and not feel pressured to use the correct word or pronounciation of a word. Their blogs can start out simple and as they learn our language better they can expand their blogs.
Getting kids to write is difficult but this will be a "judgement free" zone because they are writing their opinions and not having to recall facts and details about a given subject. I hope this will help the students feel more comfortable using english every day.
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I like your idea to use blogging with ESL students. What a great way to not only help the students, but I am sure some parents may learn as their students start using blogs. Great idea!!
Hey, I did not know you taught ESL now. I have quite of few parents that don't speak English. Do you think most of those families have a computer? It would be a great way maybe that I could have the student contact the parent if I needed them to.
Also, I loved your comment about my avatar.....
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