Perceptions of a blog-based English structure course by students in pre-service teacher education

This is a mixed type study aiming to examine how blogging enhance perception among pre-service English language teachers. 48 pre-service English language teachers enrolled in the undergraduate programme of English Teacher Education in the Department of English Language Teaching at Cukurova University participated in the study which comprise a 14-week time span of 2011-2012 spring term.Data collection includes records of participants? blog posts and their comments, individual interviews with each pre-service teacher and researcher?s field notes are taken throughout the study. All the blog content is archived and still accessible on the Internet throughout the study. These blog postings are used to measure the participants? recognition and production of targeted structures in Contextual Grammar II Course.Results indicate that pre-service language teachers find studying on the blogs very useful since blog serves as a platform involving peer collaboration exposed to with the ones in class content. Therefore, they met the expectations of each blog task which required them to focus on both recognition and production in grammar course. The results of their recognition and the outcome of their production are highly correlated which may imply such blog tasks can provide a platform to revise in-class content thus raise participants? self-confidence in Contextual Grammar II Course.Keywords: English Language Teaching, Language teacher education, Contextual Grammar, Blogging, Recognition, Production.