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Hello. Before I start writing about my progress for this week, I would like to make a clarification regarding my topic. Previously, I have listed some topics that I would like to do for my research and those topics include use of technology in ESL classroom (video conferencing) or learning literature. At first, I would like to do about literature but then I changed it to video conferencing in ESL and now once again I have decided to go back to literature. The reasons for this are because I realized I did not really understand my objectives, what I wanted to achieve from doing the research and it was quite vague for me when I was searching for past studies regarding video conferencing in ESL. My previous target respondents are not available as well due to some circumstances so I decided to start over and focus on literature learning. I am very sorry for any confusion and inconvenience.   I know it is going to be more challenging from here now on since I need to start again but I am up

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Introduction Over the years, technology has been evolving day by day and a lot of things have changed to accommodate the humans. People no longer have to pay bills or settle their taxes at the counter anymore and company meetings do not necessarily need to be held in a meeting room as all of these affairs can actually be done online. Similarly, the education field seems to not want to be left behind in this aspect. Hence, the Ministry of Education has put much emphasis in the Malaysian Education Blueprint 2015-2025 (Higher Education) on the importance of online learning. Online learning is the “delivery of learning by electronic typically through the internet” (Ministry of Education, 2015). The modes of online learning can be divided into two which are synchronous and asynchronous learning (Shahabadi & Uplane, 2014). Synchronous learning provides real-time interaction where teachers and students have to be online at the same time (Perveen, 2016)

Greetings everyone! Judging from the title itself, you can guess what I am going to write in my post this time. Yes, it will be regarding the progress of my readings that I have done so far. First of all, when I chose to do my research which is on ‘V ideo Conferencing  as a Platform in Teaching English as a Second Language’, I have already anticipated that there will be very limited studies being done on this topic. Despite the research on video conferencing application being very limited, I have still found a number of previous research being done that are related to the topic. For example, research on online learning and online web-based technologies for language teaching are quite closely related to video conferencing. I figured I still can refer to those past research for my literature review. This is because video conferencing is also one of the categories for online web-based tools for language teaching (Son, 2011). One of the articles that I have found is entitled ‘L