Language Awareness - Students' project

Learner development depends to a great extent on language awareness which implies not only a focus on language itself, but also a cognitive reflection upon language functions.

Language awareness must be fostered by giving learners various choices in learning activities. The diversity and novelty of choices stimulate learner interest and have a potential for developing language awareness.

The aim of this study has been to foster language awareness through the application of the latest innovation of ICT which has been coined a weblog. An increasing interest to using blogs in education suggests their application in teaching / learning English. In this experiment, students created their own blogs and used them for accomplishing various creative tasks.

I have coordinated the implementation of this project. My colleagues Lilija Anusiene and Viktorija Mazeikiene have encouraged their students to accomplish some assignments with the aim of raising learners' awareness in language usage and actively participated in achieving this aim.

You will be able to enter the students' blogs through the following links.

Lilija Anusiene
Viktorija Mazeikiene