The advantages and disadvantages of blogs in the English classroom.

Hi everyone! This is going to be my last blog assignment and it’s going to be an essay about the advantages and disadvantages of using blogs in the English classes. So I hope you read it and like it. Then you can post me to say if you are agree with or not.

Everybody knows that one of the most efficient ways to learn something is practicing it. Well, the same thing happens when we talk about the learning of a new language, as english. Some activities like listening to music in english, or watching movies in english with the subtitles in english too are ways of practicing this language that can help a lot. Writing and reading in english is also a very effective way of learning it.
Nowadays there are other resources, like technology and internet that can help to learn another language. So the porpoise of this essay is to analyze the advantages and disadvantages of the use of an specifically technologic resource that, through the internet, can help us to learn english: the blog.

First that all, we’re going to understand that when we read things that are written in english or when we write a text in english we begin to think in english. By this way our mind works following another kind of rules that belong to the english grammar and we assume this ways of creating phrases. In this aspect the use of a blog has a big advantage because it makes you develop this way of thinking, but at the same time you can count with internet, a very special resource that offers you any kind of information and also can bring you some translator websites to know how to say in english all the words you don’t know how to.
This connection between internet and blogs gives an incentive to the search of english written information, and certainly that is a big advantage of the blog.
On the other hand, I would consider as a disadvantage the distraction that the internet can bring you, because it contains so much different websites that is really easy to get caught up by all them and that can make you lose a lot of time.

Finally, making a balance between the advantages and disadvantages of using the blog in the english classes, I would conclude that is a very good resource and it fits as a very good way to practice a language. It’s also dynamic and the best thing is that while you are learning a new language you’re learning to use this new technology. At least I didn’t know how to work in a blog before, but now I have some ideas and if I wanted to I could keep using it, taking all the benefits of this new communication resource, like sharing my ideas and opinions about everything I want.

Well, that was my essay. I hope you agree with my opinion.
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