Task 2: The Use of Blogs in ELT

Writing Buddy or Buddy System

The Buddy System consists of pair two people in order to improve their writing skills through giving feedback and correcting each other. The main goal is to foster the writing skill of the students and this have to be done through writing a lot and receive feedback of your partner. It is good to start with simple texts and advance until write academic texts and essays with proper vocabulary depending of the context that you are asked to write.

I choose this activity because enhancing the writing skill is a very important area where shy students can develop easily their knowledge about a language, it also improves the vocabulary and grammar aspects through the practice. I find it beneficial because you are having feedback, which is a very important thing when you are starting to write any kind of text, a second opinion about your essay is a very useful tool to improve it and I think this is a very useful activity to success in this.

The benefits of this activity are to foster the writing skill, the vocabulary and the grammar aspects with a partner. It is beneficial for each of the participants of this activity because this permit them to develop an output skill which is very important for me to communicate easily.

I would implement this blogging activity in pairs or group of four where students are asked to post weekly in a blog or web page an article, piece of news, or other text depending of how they are improving through this activity in order to give feedback to other groups and correct grammar mistakes if it is necessary.