Exploring Students' Interactions in a CALL-based Environment in a Malaysian Secondary ESL Classroom
This explorative study aimed to gain insight of the general nature of the students' interactions in a CALL-based environment in a Malaysian Secondary ESL classroom with the purpose of finding out the types of oral interaction that took place and the factors that may have influenced those...
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| Format: | Final Year Project Report / IMRAD |
| Language: | en |
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Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS)
2007
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| Online Access: | http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/48260/1/Lily%20ft.pdf http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/48260/ |
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| Summary: | This explorative study aimed to gain insight of the general nature of the students'
interactions in a CALL-based environment in a Malaysian Secondary ESL classroom
with the purpose of finding out the types of oral interaction that took place and the factors
that may have influenced those types of interaction. The study employed methodology
that incorporated classroom observations, audio-recording and field notes. Both
qualitative and quantitative analyses were undertaken in this study. Students' interactions
were coded based on a selected framework and the frequencies of the types of interaction
that occurred were tabulated quantitatively. Students who participated in the study were
72 Form Five students working in pairs, trios and groups to complete two types of
CALL-based tasks (Web-based tasks and CD-ROM tasks). The analysis showed tar
lesser amount of cognitive interactions expected in the students' interactions and factors
of' grouping size and type of CALL-based task did influence the students' interactions.
Nevertheless, the CALL-based environment did encourage the students to use the target
language |
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