This is our last university year and for about a month we are working with blogs in order to improve our colloquial written English. Studying English this way is very peculiar because past years we used to translate and correct texts in class, and talk and discuss about different topics. For the third year course we used computers to do tasks and learn what is an essay and how to write it. Eventually we developed one by ourselves and it has been very useful. However posting in blogs is something more delightful to me because I feel freer to express myself, my thoughts and my opinions. In particular I enjoy writing with a more colloquial English, use colours and photos to render my posts more interesting to the readers and put links. I like going to my peers’ blogs and see how they've organized their posts.
Posting in blogs can really improve my English for many reasons:
- Having to update my blog I have to write in English…
- …a good English, because it has to be comprehended by my peers and other readers;
- I can correct and being corrected by readers through comments;
- Somehow I am pushed to read English because I have to visit and read English web pages;
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4 comments:
Hi Zara!
I agree with you!
This year we have a great opportunity (very different from those of the past years) to improve our english. The past years we lernt to write articles, essays, to do translations, but this year, blogging in english,is more interesting! The blogsphere offers us the possiblity to improve our written and speaking english and moreover in an informal style! We can express our thoughts and emotions freely and see what other people think of our work and learn from them!!!
See you soon!
Bye
Letizia
There is no doubt that blogging is really different from the activities we have been doing last year with Professor Scott and the year before with Professors Whigham and Trembath and I agree with you when you say that in this case we have the opportunity to express ourselves more freely and be active and original. Moreover we are learning colloquial English, something pretty new for us and I appreciate it a lot!
See you soon!
Giada
Hello!
I totally agree with you when you write “Reading colloquial English helps me to be closer to the English written everyday by native speakers. In particular to the everyday language”. As you highlighted, this is the real language and not Virginia Woolf! Of course I respect Virginia Wolf, I’m just joking ;-). I feel that we have the opportunity to improve our oral skills blogging because we can learn many spoken English expressions and as you wrote, this is the everyday language. It’s very challenging because we are the main protagonists of the learning process and not the teacher.
Let me know what do you think about this topic…
Stefania
Hi!
I agree with you girls, this year we are given the possibility to practice the informal English language and to create our own blog, isn’t it great?
I agree with you Zara on the fact that blogs enable us to express our opinions and give free play to our ideas, exchanging them with people from all around the world! Besides, I think that another positive thing of blogging is the fact that through our peers’ feedback we can learn how to avoid usual mistakes and at the same time to pay more attention to what we post!!!
Bye!!
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