El blog como instrumento de enseñanza-aprendizaje de idiomas

The current educational theories suggest a constructivist model ( Vigotsky’s theories (Ivic, 1994)) and a collaborative learning (Ausebel and Novak (Daley, 2010)); so the analogies with the Web 2.0 are obvious, as its concepts relies on the creation of shared knowledge. The term Web 2.0 is related to applications to share information and one of the main tools that can be used is the blog. One of the main objectives is that both teachers and students familiarize themselves with this tool. Regarding the learning of the foreign language itself, the main goal is that students improve the four communicative skills. This tool is used in the classroom and also employed to promote autonomous learning, which is very useful in this kind of schools. The blog is not used as a mere log, but is converted into a way to create interaction among students, promoting cooperative learning. The blog would be seen as an additional item to the lesson, either as a reinforcement or deepening and widening tool for language and cultural knowledge, but never as a substitute to lessons.