Definition of Key Term
digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id a The Tutor Blog.
This blog is a blog which is made up and controlled by a teacher of a class. It means students are not to be able to leave comments
to teacher’s post. Sometimes this blog uses for some activities such as
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: a. Giving students’ daily reading practice which the text posted
by teacher to make them use English continuously. b. Giving information related to the lesson, such as homework,
syllabus or course information. c. Giving students’ chance to open some resource of links for
self-study. d. Communication of online verbal happened through giving
comment on post. e. Giving students’ opportunities to explore the English website.
b The class blog. The class blog is a blog which is the result of the collaborative
works effort of an entire class. In the other word, all students’ post
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Aaron Patric Campbell. “Weblog for Use with ESL Classes, http:iteslj.orgTechniquesCampbell-
Weblogs.html, Accessed on April 12, 2016
digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id and activities are collected in one blog. According to Arron
Campbell some possible uses on the class blog are: a. Designing free-form bulletin board for conversation based-
class. b. Giving opportunities for intermediate and advanced learner for
facilitating project based language learning, especially in writing.
c. Involving the use of knowledge management in reading and writing classes.
c The learner blog. The learner blog is a blog which personally set up by student or
small collaborative group of learners. This type of blog probably uses for:
a. Reading and writing activities for students. b. Encouraging students to use search engines and net surfing in
English. c. Giving students opportunity to create journal for practicing
their writing skill.
digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id d. Developing a sense of ownership for students with practical,
legal and ethical issues of creating hypertext document.
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