Muzeyyen Aykac Erdo an

Student's and teacher's attitudes towards the use of CMC

Using CMC tools in class to improve speaking skill and student's and teacher's attitudes towards using voice & text chat

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Produktbeschreibung

Getting learners in an EFL environment to speak meaningfully in a foreign language is notoriously difficult. Innovations in educational technology enable teachers and students to facilitate teaching and learning speaking skills. This study reports on a descriptive study of attitudes of students and teachers, who have no chat-experience, about the potential use of CMC (via text &voice-based chat) as an instructional resource to facilitate their speaking ability. The study also tries to explore some similarities and differences between student and teacher computer use and opinions of students and teachers towards the use of voice &text-based chat with intercultural partners in language instruction. It also reports experienced chat-use teachers' perceptions in respect to advantages and disadvantages of using CMC tools. Findings revealed that both sets of EFL teachers and students were positive in support of use of CMC in support of speaking instruction, although teacher responses indicated anticipation of some problems in implementing classroom CMC. The study involved three groups of respondents: students, teachers without experience in CMC, international teachers experienced in CMC.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 156
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 250g
• ISBN-13: 9783845405711
• ISBN-10: 3845405716
• Artikelnr.: 35471655

Autorenporträt

Muzeyyen Aykac Erdöan,MBA: Studied Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) at Bilkent University with Fulbright Scholar in 2004-2005. She has been teaching English in the School of Foreign Languages at Mu¿la University since 1996, Mugla / TURKEY