LEARNING ENGLISH THROUGH BLOGGING


Languages are made up of many different registers and in order to know a foreign language as good as possible one must try to become familiar with all of its registers. Generally speaking I think there are two main registers: formal and informal. Usually at school and at university students are tought formal English.

This year at university I have just begun going to an English course which focuses its attention on the blogosphere and on the act of blogging. During these first two weeks I have had the chance to know a bit more about blogs in general ( I really did not know much about it before). Together with my classmates we all wrote an introduction about ourselves learning the first aim of blogging, which is also the aim of language in general: to communicate. Then we had to search for blogs that could interest us in internet. This activity was very useful for me because it obliged me to read a lot of blogs written in English, and therefore to make practice also (but noy only) with that part of English, the informal part, that we usually do not get to know in the classroom.

In my opinion blogging is a good way of learning English. To learn a language students should interact actively with someone who knows the language well. When blogging, you do not only have the chance to practice colloquial English with a native speaker but you also practice your writing and your reading skills. Therefore I believe that blogging is a complete and fun method to learn English. Of course I also believe that a basis of grammar and formal-English rules should be part of a student's knowledge before getting into the blogosphere in order to be able to single out what sometimes unfortunately in internet is not good English for your learning.