scholarly journals EXPLORING THE EFFECTIVENESS AND STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS OF E-LEARNING IN ENGLISH AS SECOND LANGUAGE (ESL) SPEAKING CLASSES AMIDST COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (23) ◽  
pp. 95-107
Author(s):  
Iziana Hani Ismail ◽  
Nur Anneliza Abd Latip ◽  
Wardatul Akmam Din ◽  
Suyansah Swanto

The COVID-19 outbreak quickly demonstrates the importance of adopting online education in teaching and learning. It has forced education systems worldwide to find alternatives to face-to-face interactions. Language instructors have made attempts to explore and utilise e-learning tools to enrich their teaching and assist learners in improving their language learning. This paper, therefore, attempts to shed light on the effectiveness of adopting e-learning tools in ESL speaking class and their perception of it. Fifty-three pre-university students from the Foundation Programme of the Preparatory Centre for Science and Technology were involved in this study. Data analysed in this paper were derived from a threaded online discussion via Dotstorming. The structured interview questions were carefully designed based on the objectives to elicit the students’ opinions on the topic of interest. To explore the effectiveness of e-learning in developing the students’ speaking skills, scores of Individual Speaking Assessment and Group Speaking Assessment of each student were collected. These assessments were marked based on the Malaysian University English Test (MUET) Speaking Rubric – Task Fulfilment, Language, and Communicative Ability. The findings show that the adoption of technology in ESL speaking classes improves the students’ speaking abilities. The thematic analysis also shows that the use of e-learning tools in language learning received positive feedbacks from the students, suggesting it would be a promising virtual platform to improve the student's confidence, knowledge, and language.

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 93-108
Author(s):  
Olena Balalaieva

ABSTRACT: The aim of this article is to review electronic resources in Latin, analyzing their didactic potential to help Classical teachers to effectively organize the educational process, diversifying the set of tools, and enhancing their work. Today, most of the useful links are accumulated on domestic professional sites devoted to the study of Latin. Many foreign scientists and teachers simply do not know about their existence. From time to time, attempts are made to summarize information and provide content for studying Classic languages in scientific publications, but such information quickly becomes outdated and needs to be regularly updated. This article provides an overview of the current most popular resources on Latin: digital libraries and databases, online courses, electronic textbooks, dictionary, translators etc.; describing the current state of the development of e-learning tools and websites for the study of Latin in Ukraine. KEYWORDS: electronic educational resources; online resources; language learning; Latin language.   RESUMO: O objetivo do artigo é revisar recursos eletrônicos em Latim, analisando seu potencial didático para ajudar os professores clássicos a organizar efetivamente o processo educacional, diversificando o conjunto de ferramentas e aprimorando o seu trabalho. Hoje, a maioria dos links úteis é acumulada em vários sites domésticos dedicados ao estudo do Latim. Muitos cientistas e professores estrangeiros simplesmente não sabem sobre sua existência. De tempos em tempos, são feitas tentativas de resumir informações e fornecer conteúdo para o estudo de línguas clássicas em publicações científicas, mas essas informações rapidamente ficam desatualizadas e precisam ser atualizadas regularmente. Este artigo fornece uma visão geral dos recursos mais populares da atualidade em Latim: bibliotecas digitais e bancos de dados, cursos online, livros eletrônicos, dicionário, tradutores etc.; descreve o estado atual de desenvolvimento das ferramentas de e-learning e sites para o estudo do Latim na Ucrânia. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: recursos educacionais eletrônicos; recursos online; aprendizagem de línguas; língua latina.


2021 ◽  
Vol 110 ◽  
pp. 03007
Author(s):  
Oksana Marunevich ◽  
Valentina Kolmakova ◽  
Irina Odaruyk ◽  
Denis Shalkov

In the world of online education, teachers are constantly looking for ways to interact with students both synchronously and asynchronously. The next decade is likely to witness a considerable rise in the development of more advanced e-learning and m-learning tools since they have become a vital factor for education due to the global shutdown of learning activities forced by the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper is a preliminary attempt to analyze the use of e-learning and m-learning technologies by Russian universities. E-learning and m-learning mean sharing knowledge and skills by using web- or mobile-based technology, respectively. The most commonly employed learning tools are social networks, LMS, and video conferencing which due to their accessibility, immediacy, interactivity, and context-awareness benefit both teachers and students in a number of ways.


2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-17
Author(s):  
Mohamed Ali Mahmod ◽  
Asma Md. Ali

Electronic Learning (e-learning) is an inventive approach to offer education using electronic means of learning contents. e-learning is an online education or distance education, which means that it can deliver education to everyone around the world online through the electronic means such as the internet from different distant countries. The success of E-learning process in universities needs some factors that should be fit with the revolution of technology and enhance the learner’s knowledge. In order to adapt to the rapid growth of technology, Universities in Iraq needs to collaborate with other international universities and industries to develop e-learning tools and methods. In addition to that, Iraqi universities have to adopt collaboration culture with other universities and industries and adhocracy culture to follow the innovation in e-learning process. This paper suggests a framework that could contribute to enhancing and success e-learning in Baghdad. The IS success model of DeLone and McLean and the open innovation model will be essential in our developed e-learning framework. The developed framework relies on adopting a collaborative and innovative culture among universities to promote the e-learning process in universities in Baghdad and Iraq.


Author(s):  
Lien Cam

Many colleges and universities in Vietnam have employed e-learning platforms in teaching English with the hope to better students’ English proficiency. Recently, e-learning programs such as DNTU-LMS and Canvas have been implemented at Dong Nai Technology University. With their features of flexibility and efficiency, they have been being used as crucial tools for teaching and learning in various faculties in the university especially during the widespread of Covid-19 pandemic. The present study aimed at identifying the views of the EFL learners from Faculty of Foreign Languages on the application of e-learning platform. A group of 100 EFL students was chosen randomly to participate in this study. Data was collected using questionnaire. After analyzing student’s responses, the results proved that the introduction of e-learning was effective. E-learning also stimulates students to learn English and brings them comfort and joy.


2018 ◽  
pp. 2274-2287
Author(s):  
Utku Kose

With the outstanding improvements in technology, the number of e-learning applications has increased greatly. This increment is associated with awareness levels of educational institutions on the related improvements and the power of communication and computer technologies to ensure effective and efficient teaching and learning experiences for teachers and students. Consequently, there is a technological flow that changes the standards of e-learning processes and provides better ways to obtain desired educational objectives. When we consider today's widely used technological factors, Web-based e-learning approaches have a special role in directing the educational standards. Improvements among m-learning applications and the popularity of the Artificial Intelligence usage for educational works have given great momentum to this orientation. In this sense, this chapter provides some ideas on the future of intelligent Web-based e-learning applications by thinking on the current status of the literature. As it is known, current trends in developing Artificial Intelligence-supported e-learning tools continue to shape the future of e-learning. Therefore, it is an important approach to focus on the future. The author thinks that the chapter will be a brief but effective enough reference for similar works, which focus on the future of Artificial Intelligence-supported distance education and e-learning.


Author(s):  
C. Candace Chou

This study explores student views of various E-Learning tools as teaching and learning media in an online course for pre-service and in-service teachers. This chapter also examines the pedagogical applications of E-Learning tools in an online course. The capabilities of a system that allows meaningful interaction, reflection, personal identification, and a sense of community play a key role in the degree of social presence. This study highlights some key findings regarding the efficacy of E-Learning tools from student perspectives and make recommendations for future pedagogical practice.


Author(s):  
Nikolas Galanis ◽  
Enric Mayol ◽  
María José Casany ◽  
Marc Alier

E-learning has experienced an extraordinary growth over the last years. We have reached a point in time when most learning institutions have adopted an LMS as an integral element of their teaching and learning infrastructure. In parallel, the number of educational tools available for learning is increasing and keeps evolving. This variety means that it is not always easy or possible to add these educational tools into LMSs to enhance the learning process. It would, however, be in everyone´s interest for these tools to interact with the LMSs. To solve the problem of interoperability between LMS and learning tools, several interoperability standards define ways so that LMSs can interface with external learning tools in order to make them accessible from within the learning platform in an intuitive and concise way. This chapter is focused on the service-oriented approach to interoperability and specifically on the IMS LTI standard and the TSUGI hosting environment that aims to simplify the integration of external learning tools.


2022 ◽  
pp. 67-89
Author(s):  
Shanru Yang

In a mobile society where information and knowledge become accessible to anyone, anywhere, and anytime on the internet, online education has been transformed fundamentally. By the end of 2020, Mandarin Chinese was taught to over 20 million people in over 180 countries around the world. By critically reviewing 15 recent studies from 2013 to 2021 on mobile-assisted language learning (MALL) in teaching and learning Chinese as a second or foreign language (CSL/CFL), this chapter emphasizes the need for pedagogical diversity in goals, practices, and context. In the second theme of ‘connectivity', the new theory of online education connectivism is applied to evaluate the official Chinese language learning mobile app named ‘e-Learn Chinese'. In the final theme of ‘sustainability', it demonstrates an ecosystem of MALL through an ecological perspective based on a critical discussion of the mostly reviewed ten mobile language learning apps, which could innovate sustainable pedagogies in a life-long learning society.


Author(s):  
Mary D. Oriol ◽  
Gail Tumulty

This chapter presents a theoretical framework and research base for the successful transition of an established Master of Science in Nursing program from that of traditional classroom delivery to one that is Web-based with no geographic limitations to students. The application of socio-technical systems theory to facilitate creation of a positive learning environment for future nurse leaders is described. Use of social processes and application of technology to optimize learning is explained and the latest research on content presentation and student engagement in an e-learning environment are presented. The authors hope that through examination of successful online teaching/learning strategies, readers will have a clear understanding of the competencies necessary for students and faculty to be successful in online education.


Author(s):  
Jared Keengwe ◽  
Joachim Jack Agamba

The emergence of e-learning tools such as Course Management Systems (CMS) offer instructors a practical means to transition from face-to-face to blended delivery modalities that could better serve the needs of digital learners. However, instructors fail to take advantage of such existing modern classroom technologies to provide better learning experiences for their learners. Part of this is due to the lack of a system to determine the underuse of technological tools in a CMS. This project focused on examining the degree of Moodle technology integration into course instruction to support effective student teaching and learning by three instructors. This article stimulates reflections on pedagogical experiences with regard to course content material and instructor practices. The study illustrates that instructors and learners can believe technology is being used well in a CMS course site when the opposite is true.


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