This document discusses blogging and microblogging as tools for language learning. It defines blogging as writing with no word limit on platforms like websites and wikis, while microblogging has word limits, like Twitter's 280 character tweets. Social media allows learning other cultures through interaction and communication. Blogging and microblogging can enhance learner motivation, cultural awareness, interaction skills, and language proficiency in reading and writing. For teachers, they offer assignment publishing, and for students, benefits include brainstorming, commenting, vocabulary growth, and cultural exposure. Twitter specifically supports language learning through easy access, user-paced interaction, and integration into online language communities.

1. Blogging and Microblogging

2. Socio media
• Social media can help learners, learning other cultures and developing
intercultural, socio pragmatic, and audience awareness.
• Students can use educational sites, wikis, blogs, and network for SLL and
FLL.
• Using social media is a kind of computer assisting for language learning.
• There is an opportunity to communicate and interact with others in order
to learn new things.

3. Definition
• You can Blogging in different platforms websites, wikis, and any online
social software, but the difference is writing with or without limitation.
• In Blogging, there is no limitation of words because the platform is for
writing.
• In Microblogging, there is limitation for your writing, for example, in
twitter you can tweet 280 words.

4. But how?
• How EFL and ESL instructors can effectively incorporate Blogs into
teaching activities?
• What is Blog?
A site or online journal published on the internet.
• Purpose: informational or discussion, which allows users and visitors to
leave comments or massages with or without limitations.
• These tools can be used in learner centered and constructivism
approaches in order to interaction and communication and learning social
activities. It means they can be used as a language learning tools.

5. The general impact of using Blogging and Microblogging
• Enhancing motivation:
taking part in an interaction will positively enhance learner’s motivation and
satisfaction and perception of learning language.
• Awareness of target culture:
• There is opportunity to explore and interact with target language that leads to
cultural awareness
• Opportunity to interaction and communication:
• It develops interaction practice among learners in target language and enhance
their knowledge.
• Enhancing language skills and proficiency
• Main focus is on reading and writing, even it develops their conceptualization,
articulation, brainstorming, monitoring, evaluating, self presentation and
information exchange skills. But it has limit impact on listening and speaking

6. The specific impact of using Blogging and
Microblogging
• For teachers: assignment publishing
For students:
Brainstorming
collecting data and different ideas
Enhancing the ability of argumentation
Enhancing the ability of commenting
Learning more vocabulary and grammatical structures
Finding new friends
Being familiar with other lifestyles

7. Microblogging and learning language
• I think, we can use MB as a tool for learning language and communication
because:
• It is a kind of instructional method for active learning that present
opportunity for learners to interact in target language.
• Some social networks such as Facebook and Twitter seems such a good
environment for active learning.
• We can train communication and culture in target language, because this
is a kind of available input, as other numerous forms on the web.
• Learners just need a platform and ability to product language and
knowing target language even in basic level as a communication tool.
• MB tools enable users to post and receive short messages from their
device.

8. Twitter an appropriate MB tool for
communication and interaction
• It support learning language because :
 it is easy access, any where any time.
User decides how much time to spend
Level adaption: Any level of language proficiency has opportunity to use.
Working on different topics, grammatical structures and …
Integrate learners in the online communities.