%0 Journal Article
%T Voice Blog: An Exploratory Study of Language Learning
%A Yu-Chih Sun
%J Language Learning and Technology
%D 2009
%I University of Hawaii
%X This study uses voice blogs as a platform for an extensive study of language learners¡¯ speaking skills. To triangulate the findings, the study collected data by surveying the learners¡¯ blogging processes, investigating learning strategies, and conducting retrospective interviews. The results revealed that students (a) developed a series of blogging stages, including conceptualizing, brainstorming, articulation, monitoring, and evaluating, and used a wide variety of strategies to cope with blogging-related difficulties, and (b) perceived blogging as a means of learning, self-presentation, information exchange, and social networking. Findings suggest that blogs can constitute a dynamic forum that fosters extensive practice, learning motivation, authorship, and development of learning strategies.
%K Computer-Mediated Communication
%K Learners' Attitudes
%K Speaking
%U http://llt.msu.edu/vol13num2/sun.pdf