A Case Study on: Improving Iranian High School Students' Listening Comprehension via Internet-based Listening Tasks.
By:
Morteza Barin
[email protected]
Islamic Azad University- Khoy Branch
Asiatefl 8th , Hanoi_ Vietnam
6 to 8 August 2010
Abstract
In our modern world, the Internet is known as a superhighway information source. Interest in Internet technologies for communication and education has recently increased greatly all over the world. It is possible that online language teaching and learning will replace much of the traditional means of education. In this study, we wanted to investigate the effect of Internet-based listening tasks on the listening comprehension of EFL Iranian high school students in the city of Khoy in West Azerbaijan (Iran). We studied work that had already been done, and based on these studies, designed a research project. The method we used in this study was experimental. 70 male students were selected randomly from the 210 students in grade 3 at Imam high school. Then, we randomly divided 70 students into two different groups. Each group had 35 students. At the beginning of our research project we administered a pre-test in each group to assess their background knowledge of listening comprehension topics. The experimental group received their input from the Internet and the control group received their input from a tape-recorder. At the end, a post-test was administered for both groups and the Analysis of Variance (a one way ANOVA) was used for data analysis. It revealed that Internet-based tasks can be used as a rich source of improving listening skills. Finally, we came to the conclusion that the students who used Internet-based listening tasks were more active and successful than the traditional group.
Key Words: Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL),
Cyberspace, Distance –Learning, e-Learning, Hypermedia, Web-based
training (WBT)
Biodata:
Morteza Barin is an English teacher in Khoy (West-Azarbayjan) for 26 years teaching English language for different groups both in Ministry of Education and different universities in Iran. He has M.A degree in TEFL and is a part-time lecturer in English language Department of Islamic Azad University of Khoy . He has written several Articles on problems of language teaching and learning in Iran. Also he is interested in CALL and working on Distance Learning, Virtual Universities and Web-based language Teaching & Learning. He has presented several papers and workshops in Malaysia ( 2007), Indonesia( 2008) and Japan(2007).
