Analyzing the Effect of Technology-Based Intervention in Language Laboratory to Improve Listening Skills of First Year Engineering Students

dc.creator	Pasupathi Madhumathi
dc.date	2013-04-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-08-12T11:17:46Z
dc.date.available	2015-08-12T11:17:46Z
dc.identifier	1657-0790
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/9f1012054f7348d895a5c0f11bdde5ad
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/26457
dc.description	<div>First year students pursuing engineering education face problems with their listening skills. Most of <span style="font-size: 10px;">the Indian schools use a bilingual method for teaching subjects from primary school through high </span><span style="font-size: 10px;">school. Nonetheless, students entering university education develop anxiety in listening to classroom</span></div><div>lectures in English. This article reports an exploratory study that aimed to find out whether the listening <span style="font-size: 10px;">competences of students improved when technology was deployed in language laboratory. It </span><span style="font-size: 10px;">also investigated the opinions of the students about using teacher-suggested websites for acquiring </span><span style="font-size: 10px;">listening skills. The results of the study indicated that the use of technology in a language laboratory </span><span style="font-size: 10px;">for training students in listening competences had reduced the anxiety of the students when listening </span><span style="font-size: 10px;">to English. Further, there was a significant improvement on the part of students in acquiring listening </span><span style="font-size: 10px;">skills through technology-based intervention.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><div>Muchos estudiantes de ingeniería de primer año en India tienen problemas con sus habilidades de <span style="font-size: 10px;">escucha en inglés; experimentan ansiedad al momento de escuchar conferencias en inglés, pese a que </span><span style="font-size: 10px;">provienen de colegios donde se sigue un modelo bilingüe para enseñar materias desde la primaria</span></div><div>hasta la secundaria. Con el objetivo de averiguar si las competencias de escucha de los estudiantes <span style="font-size: 10px;">mejoran cuando se introduce la tecnología en el laboratorio de idiomas, se realizó un estudio </span><span style="font-size: 10px;">exploratorio en el que se tuvieron en cuenta las opiniones de los estudiantes acerca del uso de sitios </span><span style="font-size: 10px;">web sugeridos por el docente para adquirir habilidades de escucha. Los resultados indican que el uso </span><span style="font-size: 10px;">de la tecnología en el laboratorio de idiomas reduce la ansiedad de los estudiantes al momento de </span><span style="font-size: 10px;">escuchar conferencias en inglés y que progresan significativamente en sus habilidades de escucha.</span></div></div>
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Facultad de Ciencias Humanas
dc.relation	http://www.revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/profile/article/view/37873
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1657-0790
dc.rights	CC BY
dc.source	Profile Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, Vol 15, Iss 1, Pp 125-138 (2013)
dc.subject	English as a second language, English for academic purposes, higher education, listening skills, technology based learning.
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
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dc.title	Analyzing the Effect of Technology-Based Intervention in Language Laboratory to Improve Listening Skills of First Year Engineering Students
dc.type	article