The Effect of Using blogs on Vocabulary Knowledge of Male vs. Female Iranian EFL Learners: The Case of Phrases Verbs, Idioms, And Collocations

This research aims to explore how the use of a blog can benefit students’ learning processes, teachers, language schools, policy makers, and syllabus designers in an institute.I propose a VOCABLOG Model which accounts not only for the relationship between word learning and visual and verbal short-term memory and long-term memory, but also for a wide range of phenomena in visual and verbal short-term and long-term memory to become bilingual.The goal is to become bilingual through blogs and candidate vocabulary, phrasal verbs, idioms, and collocations. The results revealed that use of blogs became a useful aid to support language learning due to difference between male and female students in the learning process

Keywords:

Blogs , Vocabulary , Phrasal verbs , Idioms , Collocations , visual learning , verbal learning