scholarly journals The Effect of Using Web-Cam Chat on the Undergraduate EFL Learners᾽ Socio-Cultural Competence

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 242
Author(s):  
Ahmad Mousa Bataineh ◽  
Ahmed I. Al-Abdali
Keyword(s):  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
English As Foreign Language ◽  
Foreign Language Learners ◽  
Conversational Skills ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Experimental Group ◽  
Year 2013

<p>This study aimed at investigating the use of web-cam chat as one of the most effective tools of<br />Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC), and measuring its effect on the sociocultural<br />competence of the English as foreign language learners. The sample of the study consisted of<br />38 undergraduate EFL learners who registered for a Conversational Skills Course at Al-alBayt<br />University during the academic year 2013-2014. However, the chosen sample of the study was<br />of two groups: Group one consisted of (20) students, which was chosen as an experimental<br />group, and group two consisted of (18) students, which was assigned as a control group. Data<br />were collected within 8 weeks and statistical analysis was prepared (T-test, one-way analysis of<br />variance, and Scheffe). To assess the effect of using web-cam chat on EFL learners<br />sociocultural competence, students in both groups sat for a written and an oral test at the<br />beginning of the second semester of the academic year 2013-2014 so as to determine their<br />actual sociocultural knowledge before starting the experiment. After 8 weeks, the same test<br />was administered as a posttest. The results of the study indicated that the experimental group<br />performed better that the control group in the sociocultural aspects of language due to the new<br />method of teaching that is Web-cam chat. The results of the study showed that the experimental<br />group acquired some sociocultural aspects rather than the others. Additionally, the findings of<br />the study revealed that the experimental group students have developed their language skills.<br />This might be due to the effect of web-cam chat through which the experimental groups'<br />students interacted a lot with native speakers of English. Accordingly, a set of<br />recommendations were provided at the end of this study.</p>

A Qualitative Study of the Perceptions of Iranian EFL Learners’ Attitudes towards CMC Tools Usefulness

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (8) ◽  
pp. 682
Author(s):  
Sanam Mehri ◽  
Siros Izadpanah
Keyword(s):  
Student Perceptions ◽  
English Language ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Before And After ◽  
E Mail ◽  
Experimental Group

This project examined the perceptions of Iranian EFL learners’ attitudes towards online computer-mediated communication tools usefulness. Few researches have been done to evaluate student perceptions of the helpfulness of CMC tools in online learning. In this regard, based on convenient sampling method, 60 English Language Teaching students (B.A) of Zanjan Azad University were selected. The students attended in two classes that were held by two different instructors. To homogenize the participants, PET was administered. Those participants whose scores was ±1 above and below the standard deviation were selected as the statistical sample (n= 60). Then, the selected participants were randomly assigned to one experimental (n= 30) and one control group (n= 30).The Community of Inquiry (CoI) questionnaire was distributed among the participants in groups before the treatment. During the study, the experimental group was taught using e-mail and telegram chat. In the control group, the learners were taught through traditional way of teaching. At the end of the treatment, the CoI questionnaire was re-administered among the learners in the both groups. Responses before and after the treatment revealed that the perceptions’ of the learners in the experimental group were significantly influenced as a result of instructing by e-mail and telegram.

scholarly journals The Effect of Computer-mediated Communication Tools in Online Setting on Iranian EFL Learners’ Teaching, Social and Cognitive Existence

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 978 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanam Mehri ◽  
Siros Izadpanah
Keyword(s):  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Communication Tools ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Online Setting ◽  
Online Communication Tools ◽  
Experimental Group

This study was conducted to explore the effect of computer-mediated communication tools in online setting on Iranian EFL learners’ teaching, social and cognitive existence. The population of the study included 60 English Language Teaching students (B.A) of Zanjan Islamic Azad University using convenient sampling method. Experimental group included half of the participants (n=30) and other half of the participants (n=30) was assigned to control group. As a pretest, participants were asked to fill in the Community of Inquiry (CoI) questionnaire in both experimental and control groups. The learners in the experimental group were taught through electronic mail and chat and the assignments and homework were sent to the learners by E-mail. The teachers asked the learners to answer the questions and send the fulfilled assignments in the telegram group. The learners in the control group were taught conventionally. After the treatment, the questionnaire was re-administered among the learners in the both groups as posttest. The learners who received synchronous online communication tools, compared to the respondents who received no treatment, gained higher mean scores on social, teaching and cognitive presence. The findings of the present study can have implications for ESL/EFL contexts from several aspects.

scholarly journals Improving Upper-intermediate EFL Learners’ Communicative Competence through Authentic Materials

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 956
Author(s):  
Mohammad Hossein Keshmirshekan
Keyword(s):  
Language Learners ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Placement Test ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Authentic Materials ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Course Content ◽  
Foreign Language Learners ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Experimental Group

The present study aimed to investigate the effects of authentic materials on enhancing Iranian English as a foreign language learners' communicative competence. To this end, 106 upper-intermediate participants out of 136 were selected based on their performance an Oxford Placement Test (OPT) and randomly assigned to two equal groups- one experimental group and one control group. Then a pre-test was administered to assess the participants' communicative competence at the beginning of the course. Then, the experimental group received the treatment. The control group was taught the course content using the regular communicative method through which students received teacher-course from the textbook. After the treatment, the two groups took the post-test. The data analysis through paired and independent sample t-tests revealed that the experimental group outperformed the control group on the posttest. In other words, teaching authentic materials showed to have a significant effect on improving learners' communicative competence. The implications, limitations, and suggestions of this study are explained at the end of the study.

scholarly journals Demonstration Technique to Improve Vocabulary and Grammar Element in Teaching Speaking at EFL Learners

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 26
Author(s):  
Muhammad Husnu
Keyword(s):  
T Test ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Paired Samples ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Class Iib ◽  
And Control ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Experimental Group

This study aimed at examining the effectiveness of demonstration technique to improve vocabulary and grammar element in teaching speaking at EFL learners. This research applied true-experimental design. The respondents of the study were 32 students (class IIA) as experimental group and 32 students (class IIB) as control group from the second semester of Economic Departments of Hamzanwadi University in the academic year 2016-2017. To collect the data, a pre-test and a post-test were given to the EFL learners. To analyze the data, the researcher applied SPSS 17 for windows. To analyze whether there was a significant difference in the mean score between pre-test and post-test, the researcher used a paired-samples t-test to get answer of the hypothesis. After performing a paired-samples t-test, the researcher found that there was a significant difference in mean scores between experimental and control group and t-test score is higher than t-table, it meant that demonstration technique was significantly effective in teaching speaking, especially to improve the element of vocabulary and grammar in teaching speaking at EFL learners.

scholarly journals Language Proficiency through Vocabulary Development: A Framework

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boumediène BENRABAH
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Proficiency ◽  
Threshold Level ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
English As Foreign Language ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Language Proficiency Test ◽  
Experimental Group

The global aim of the present research paper is an attempt to reach a threshold level of the learning of a foreign language (English) through the development of vocabulary. Observing the very limited rate of use of English in the Algerian community, English as Foreign Language (EFL) students, actually, need to progress in the mastery of that language by reading and/or listening to texts or messages intensively. To achieve this goal, subsequent procedures should take place by giving the foreign language a rather more appreciable position in the community such as the one held by a second language. To be down-to-earth, a brief survey on the linguistic situation in Algeria is exposed where neat clarification of second-foreign language status in the community is laid out to show that the more a (foreign) language is explicitly exposed in its manifold forms, the more are learners, in that community, likely to acquire it as a second language. However, the assumption of presenting the receptive skills (reading and listening) as the most appropriate means for the growth of foreign language vocabulary is supported by Krashen’s input theory where any input to be understood, should come at EFL learners’ capacity to read/listen and decode easily the meaning. In due course, First year EFL students have been subject to a language proficiency test-‘a pre-test then a post-test’. This typical experimental design is an intervention study which contains two groups: ‘the treatment or experimental’ group which receives the treatment, or which is exposed to some special conditions of intensifying vocabulary learning through a varied, comprehensible input; and a second group of EFL learners- the control group- whose role is to provide a baseline. The findings showed better scores among the experimental group compared to the other group. Actually, the results proved the adequacy of the adopted theory.

The Effect of Scripted Songs as a Teaching Technique on English Competence of 4th Grade Students of Primary School in SD Saraswati Tabanan in Academic Year 2013/2014

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
I.G.P. Adhitya Prayoga ◽  
N.M. Ratminingsih ◽  
I.G. Budasi
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Fourth Grade ◽  
Conventional Technique ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Fourth Grade Students ◽  
Teaching Technique ◽  
English Competence ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Experimental Group ◽  
Year 2013

This study aimed at investigating the effect of Scripted Songs as a teaching technique on English competence of the fourth grade students of primary school in SD Saraswati Tabanan in academic year 2013/2014. Posttest only control group design was used as a research design. The population was all the fourth grade students. Through Cluster Random Sampling technique, two classes were taken as the samples in this study, namely class 4B and 4C. Class 4B was assigned as the control group while class 4C as the experimental group. In total, seventy five students were taken as representative of the population. The students in experimental group were taught by using Scripted Songs, while the students in control group were taught by using Conventional Technique. At the end of treatment, both groups were given a posttest. The result of the posttest was then analyzed descriptively and inferentially. Based on the result of data analysis, it was found that the students who were taught by using Scripted Songs obtained better result than those who were taught by using Conventional Technique. It was proven by the mean score of the experimental group was 79.05, while the control group was 69.5. Moreover, the result of the independent sample t-test showed that the value of t observed (tobs) was 5.000. It was higher than the value of t critical value (tcv)was 1.99 (α= 0.05). This proved that there was a significant effect on English competence between experimental and control group.

The Effect of Learners’ Autonomous Textbook Selection on Intermediate Iranian EFL Learners’ Speaking Ability

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Parisa Farrokh
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Superior Performance ◽  
Placement Test ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
English As Foreign Language ◽  
Design Activities ◽  
Quantitative Results ◽  
Textbook Selection ◽  
Experimental Group

Abstract The ability to employ the language as a communicational tool often serves as a measure of one’s speaking success in the language learning class. This research sought to investigate the effect of learners’ autonomous textbook selection on the speaking ability of Iranian English as foreign language (EFL) learners. Moreover, finding and analyzing factors considered by the learners in selecting the textbooks were another aim of this research. Sixty Iranian intermediate EFL learners from the Simin Language Institute in Ramsar, Mazandaran, Iran, were selected as the participants of the study based on their scores on Oxford Placement Test. This test determines the level of the students’ English proficiency. These participants were randomly assigned into the control and experimental groups. An interview procedure was run as their pretest. The experimental group studied from their selected books, besides the researcher’s teaching in the class. After 16 sessions, a posttest, the same as the pretest, was run as well. The quantitative results indicated the superior performance of the experimental group over the control group. Furthermore, an analysis of the Litz’s (2000) questionnaire shows that learners considered criteria such as practical considerations, layout and design, activities, skills, language type, subject and content of the selected books.

scholarly journals The Effect of Using Web-Cam Chat on the Undergraduate EFL Students’ Pragmatic Competence

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 350
Author(s):  
Ahmad Mousa Bataineh ◽  
Nadhim Obaid Hussein
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Pragmatic Competence ◽  
Control Group ◽  
College Level ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Pragmatic Aspects

<p>This study aimed to investigate the effect of using web-cam chat on developing of the pragmatic aspects of language by college-level English as foreign language (EFL) learners in Jordan. A quantitative approach was applied to determine first, whether the use of web-cam chats had a positive effect on EFL learners’ pragmatic competence. Second, the effect of presenting pragmatic through two delivery systems face-to-face, in-class activities and computer-mediated communication (CMC) via web-cam chats i.e. Facebook and Skype was investigated in this study. The sample of the study consisted of thirty-two undergraduate students who made up two intact classes in a "Conversation Skills course, which call Penguin Functional English by Peter Watcyn-J0nes .Code N 1302109” at AL al-Bayt University in Jordan, during the second semester of the academic year 2013/2014. The students were interviewed in order to know their actual levels in the pragmatic aspects of English before starting the experiment. The sample  was divided into two groups; the control group (15 students) was taught the course content using the regular communicative method through which students received instructor-led lessons from the textbook, while group two, the experimental (17 students) was taught using web-cam chat. After conducting the activities, a post test was administered. Scores were tabulated and prepared for statistical analysis. The results showed that web-cam chat had a positive impact on the EFL learners’ pragmatic competence. Learners who studied via web-cam chat performed better on the pragmatic aspects of English post-test than those who did not. The findings also indicated that technology can be a valuable tool for delivering pragmatic instruction. Moreover, the findings of the study revealed that students acquired the speaking and listening skills in web-cam chat more efficiently and effectively than in the regular communicative method.</p>

scholarly journals The Effect of Talking Story Books on Saudi Young EFL Learners’ Reading Comprehension

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 204
Author(s):  
Hashem Ahmed Alsamadani
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Comprehension Test ◽  
Comprehension Skills ◽  
Reading Comprehension Skills ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Experimental Group

The current research study investigated the effects of talking story books on Saudi young EFL learners’ reading comprehension skills. A sample of Saudi-young-EFL learners were randomly selected and divided into two groups: an experimental group (40 students) and a control group (39 students). Students of both groups took a pre reading comprehension test at the mid of the 2016 academic year. The researcher used the talking story books when teaching the experimental group for four weeks whereas the students in the control group were taught without the use of talking story books. After four weeks of instruction, both groups completed the same reading comprehension test again. Measures of the means, standard deviations, and MANCOVA were used to determine the differences between the two groups. The study revealed that students who attended reading classes using talking story books outperformed their control group counterparts in many reading-based skills. This is indicative of the positive effects of talking story books on EFL young learners reading comprehension skills.

scholarly journals Development of Responsive Writing Ability: the Chance Virtual Instruction Creates

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 881-889
Author(s):  
Gholam-Reza Abbasian ◽  
Atiyeh Zeinalian Bafandeh
Keyword(s):  
Control Group ◽  
Writing Ability ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Written Responses ◽  
Foreign Language Learners ◽  
Virtual Instruction ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Effective Role ◽  
Based Instruction ◽  
Experimental Group

The ability to write and respond in a formal manner is an important skill in different areas. It has been seen that learners have problem with how to write and/or to respond in a formal manner. Being a quasi-experimental study, this study investigated the opportunities virtual instruction creates for the development and assessment of English responsive writing ability. The underlying premise was that virtual instruction, i.e., e-learning, can assist foreign language learners in the development of their general responsive writing ability. However, the role of instructional setting could not be so easily overlooked. So, the purpose of the present study was to recognize if there is any difference between EFL and ESL learners general responsive writing ability. In order to meet the objectives, 60 learners, divided into ESL and EFL groups, participated in this study. The ESL group consisted of 20 participants and 40 EFL learners were divided into two groups; one as the experimental group which received virtual instruction, while the other as the control group received class-based instruction. The study employed a process of exchanging emails in order to trace responsive writing ability development. Findings indicate that virtual instruction as far as the responsive writing ability was concerned, has an effective role in enhancing the learners written responses. Furthermore, these findings also show that the learners of the two EFL and ESL experimental groups significantly outperformed the EFL Control group, though the EFL experimental group outperformed both ESL and control groups. The findings also indicate that the EFL learners development depends on the researchers responsive written feedback.

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