Using blog to Promote English Skills for EFL Students: The Students’ Perception

Blogs in many modern institutions have been used to promote English skills in ELT situation. This quantitative study aimed to identify and describes the use of the blog to promote English skills for EFL students in PBIG FKIP Unilak. This study based its data from 118 students who attended 4 different classes based-blog. Employing a total sampling technique, the students were invited to fill up online questionnaire. The quantitative data shows the majority (98%) of the students had a positive perception that blog was very useful and (97%) effective as a media to promote English language skills. This positive result means that blog can be used as a media of learning to promote English skills among EFL students based on the perception of students who have used blog in 4 different classes based blog in PBIG FKIP Unilak.