Website 5
http://www.teflweb_j.org/v3nl/blog_ward.pdf

• This page provides a paper entitled “Blog Assisted language learning (BALL): push button publishing for the pupils” written by Jason M. Ward from American University Sharjah, published in 2004 in the TEFL web journal.
• What the paper presents here is of significant value to instructors intending to start using blog in classroom teaching. In addition to the definition of weblog and the history of weblog development, the paper discusses how weblogs help develop writing, reading and communicative skills. The positive and negative potential of weblogs for language teachers is discussed. The writer also demonstrates the use of weblog in a writing class with non-native English language learners in their first year of university learning. Students’ feedback is also considered.
• Obviously, the paper has a lot to do with the topic I have chosen. By learning more about others' using blog in writing instruction, I can do better in my intended activity.