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Two-month blog-based independent reading program with eight passages, collaboration, and weekly summaries

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Description

The treatment program consisted of eight reading comprehension passages on different fields, "from famous characters in history to legends", each followed by multiple choice questions. Students could collaborate to answer the questions and correct each other's mistakes, and at the end of each week each student wrote a summary of the two passages in their own words. The program ran for two months during the second term on a teacher's blog, with stated aims to develop students' reading skills and autonomy.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • Access to the teacher's blog and basic familiarity with blogs and computers, which the experimental group had

Constraints

  • Extra teaching hours were not allowed at the college, so the program had to run independently of class time

Target Learners

  • first-year university English majors in Saudi Arabia

Learning Goals

  • reading comprehension
  • learner autonomy

Claims

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Key Sources

  • Said Fathy El Said Abdul Fattah. (2016). The Effectiveness of Using Blogs as an Independent Learning Tool to Develop Reading Skills for University Students. Journal of Education and Practice, Vol.7, No.32. http://www.iiste.org
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title Two-month blog-based independent reading program with eight passages, collaboration, and weekly summaries
description The treatment program consisted of eight reading comprehension passages on different fields, "from famous characters in history to legends", each followed by multiple choice questions.
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generated by process:settle-candidates on 2026-11-02
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