1. Reading comprehension improvement through the blog
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Amanda Lu

2. Introduction
Curriculum and instruction have been changed with the advancement and presence of new technologies.
The use of blogs has become increasingly popular over the years as a form of
CMC.
This study will examine the role of blogs and how they may assist to promote comprehension within small-guided reading groups.

3. Literature Review
The advantages of the blogging include maintaining a log of exchanging among students, a more serious consideration of language, and the encouragement of community language learning by electronic means. (Godwin Jones,2003)
Self-publishing encourages ownership and responsibility on the parts of the students, who maybe more thoughtful if they know they are writing for real audience. (Godwin Jones,2003)

4. Literature Review
Communicative competence is defined as the use of language in social communications without grammatical analysis (Krashen & Terrell, 1983).

5. Research Questions
1 Do the participants improve their reading comprehension by blog discussion ?
2 How do students respond to the use of blogs?
3 What impact does the integration of blogs into Penguin Active Reading have in fostering deeper comprehension?

6. Gou-Guo junior high school
Methodology
participant
students
group
experimental
control
school
Gou-Guo junior high school
number 30
people
5-6/group
grade
8th grader
gender
14 boys
and 16 girls
13 boys
and 17 girls

7. Gou-Guo junior high school
Methodology
participant
teacher
school
Gou-Guo junior high school
number 1
age 36
gender
female
background
bachelor’s degree in English
a certificated teacher who has 6 years teaching experience

8. Penguin active reading
Design
Experimental
Control
material
Penguin active reading
Week 1
Pre-test
Week 2-14
Treatment
3-5pages/week, and blog discussion at least post one comment every other day
traditional way
Week 15
Post-test

9. Methodology instruments experimental control pre-test post-test
GEPT elementary level mode test reading part
questionnaire
reading experience before and after the treatment
Blog Scoring Rubric
Blog Analysis Rubric
survey
student interest inventory

10. Data collection T-test Gain scores Questionnaire Blog Scoring Rubric
Student interest inventory

11. Data analysis RQ1 RQ2 RQ3 T-test Gain scores Questionnaire
Blog Scoring Rubric
Student interest inventory