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Learning styles of Iranian EFL male high school seniors in computer-based and traditional face-to-face contexts

The Iranian education system has pursued the trend of using computers, especially at secondary school level, to help students cope with their learning problems independently. This study is an attempt to find out the different trends of learning style preferences among Iranian male high school senior...

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Main Authors: Moharrer, Zahra, Wong, Bee Eng
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Language:English
Published: M. S. Thirumalai 2013
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/27933/1/Learning%20styles%20of%20Iranian%20EFL%20male%20high%20school%20seniors%20in%20computer-based%20and%20traditional%20face-to-face%20contexts.pdf
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spelling my.upm.eprints.279332016-03-07T00:53:36Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/27933/ Learning styles of Iranian EFL male high school seniors in computer-based and traditional face-to-face contexts Moharrer, Zahra Wong, Bee Eng The Iranian education system has pursued the trend of using computers, especially at secondary school level, to help students cope with their learning problems independently. This study is an attempt to find out the different trends of learning style preferences among Iranian male high school seniors in two instructional formats, namely, computer-based and face-to-face learning. Willing's (1988) questionnaire was distributed among 236 students in the electronic distance education and traditional schools in Shiraz, Iran. The different types of language learners in this EFL context were investigated using Exploratory Factor Analysis. The findings indicated that learners in the computer-based context were largely not oriented adequately to learning English language through an interactive multimedia CD-ROM program independently. The findings also showed that although students in the traditional face-to-face context preferred the conventional classroom, they also showed communicative preference towards the opposite condition which is not prevalent in the Iranian traditional schools; in other words, they strongly preferred communication which was not highlighted in the school curriculum. Such findings have implications for the Iranian EFL classroom. M. S. Thirumalai 2013-12 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/27933/1/Learning%20styles%20of%20Iranian%20EFL%20male%20high%20school%20seniors%20in%20computer-based%20and%20traditional%20face-to-face%20contexts.pdf Moharrer, Zahra and Wong, Bee Eng (2013) Learning styles of Iranian EFL male high school seniors in computer-based and traditional face-to-face contexts. Language in India, 13. pp. 380-404. ISSN 1930-2940 http://www.languageinindia.com/dec2013/zahralearningstyles.html
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description The Iranian education system has pursued the trend of using computers, especially at secondary school level, to help students cope with their learning problems independently. This study is an attempt to find out the different trends of learning style preferences among Iranian male high school seniors in two instructional formats, namely, computer-based and face-to-face learning. Willing's (1988) questionnaire was distributed among 236 students in the electronic distance education and traditional schools in Shiraz, Iran. The different types of language learners in this EFL context were investigated using Exploratory Factor Analysis. The findings indicated that learners in the computer-based context were largely not oriented adequately to learning English language through an interactive multimedia CD-ROM program independently. The findings also showed that although students in the traditional face-to-face context preferred the conventional classroom, they also showed communicative preference towards the opposite condition which is not prevalent in the Iranian traditional schools; in other words, they strongly preferred communication which was not highlighted in the school curriculum. Such findings have implications for the Iranian EFL classroom.
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title Learning styles of Iranian EFL male high school seniors in computer-based and traditional face-to-face contexts
title_short Learning styles of Iranian EFL male high school seniors in computer-based and traditional face-to-face contexts
title_full Learning styles of Iranian EFL male high school seniors in computer-based and traditional face-to-face contexts
title_fullStr Learning styles of Iranian EFL male high school seniors in computer-based and traditional face-to-face contexts
title_full_unstemmed Learning styles of Iranian EFL male high school seniors in computer-based and traditional face-to-face contexts
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