The Relationship between Searching Weblogs and Learning Vocabulary among EFL Learners

The availability of computers enables students to access and use a wide range of information on the Internet, so this research attempts to examine the influence of online magazines or weblogs on the vocabulary of English learners as foreign languages. Sixty middle school students from Language School in Tehran passed the preliminary English test (PET) and were selected from ۹۰ students enrolled in the institute, and were randomly divided into two groups, an experimental group, and a control group. The two groups learned the same content, and the results of the experimental group receiving instructions through the blog and the control group limited to printed text instructions were compared. At the end of the course, the content vocabulary test was performed on the two groups of students, and the mean of the two groups in the final test was compared with the independent sample t-test, which ruled out the null hypothesis. Therefore, the conclusion is that searching on the Internet weblogs is more effective than learning students' vocabulary in class.

کلیدواژه ها:

Weblog ، Vocabulary ، CALL ، Internet ، EFL Learners