Teaching Reading and Writing Skills to Young Learners in English as a Foreign Language Using Blogs: a case Study

7.1 Results of the Pre- Semi-structured Interviews with the Experimental 
Group 
The experimental group was given a pre- semi-structured interview. First, it 
examined students’ involvement with the English language; 50% of the students 
had a certificate in English and 3 out of 4 students believed that they were good at 
reading whereas only 2 out of 4 believed that they were good at writing (Figure 1) 
Figure 1: Students’ own assessment on reading and writing
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Journal of Language and Cultural Education
, 2019, 7(2) 
ISSN 1339-4584 
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Next, it involved questions which concerned students’ attitudes towards the 
lessons in the foreign language institute. All the students liked the lessons, but they 
would like to add technology to these lessons (Figure 2). 
Figure 2: What students want to include in their lessons 
To round off, questions concerning students and their relation to technology 
were also included. All of them used the internet for schoolwork, for watching 
videos and for playing games but none of them knew what a blog was or had ever 
written an email (Figure 3). 
Figure 3: Students and the use of computer/internet 
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Journal of Language and Cultural Education
, 2019, 7(2) 
ISSN 1339-4584 
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7.2 The Results of the Post- Semi-structured Interview with the 
Experimental Group 
To start with, there were questions which concerned students’ 
attitudes 
towards the use of blogs. All students liked using blogs because it was something 
new and different than the traditional use of a coursebook (Figure 4). 
Figure 4: Reasons for students’ positive stance towards the use of computers
 
Next, considering the improvement of literacy skills, all students stated that 
writing in a blog was easier than traditional writing tasks because they preferred 
writing on a computer so as to express their opinions and because they received 
no grade (Figure 5). 
Finally, students answered questions which concerned the improvement of 
their e-literacies. Students stated that the use of computers facilitated the use of 
word-processing, browsing the internet and using the correct spelling with the use 
of the keyboard.