VIEWS OF DIGITAL NATIVES IN A LANGUAGE CLASSROOM: ARE TECHNOLOGICAL GADGETS AN ASSISTANCE OR OBSTRUCTION?
DİL EĞİTİM SINIFLARINDA DİJİTAL YERLİLERİN BAKIŞ AÇISI: TEKNOLOJİK AYGITLAR DESTEK Mİ ENGEL Mİ?

Author : Özlem ZABİTGİL GÜLSEREN
Number of pages : 190-204

Abstract

Technology pervades every aspect of our life today from everyday practices to different learning contexts. Inclusion of technology and technological tools in language education is a well-accepted phenomenon by language practitioners nowadays (Bozdoğan & Özen, 2014: Berk, 2009; Koehler & Mishra, 2005; El Semary, 2002; Christensen, 2002). Technology is evolving the experience of learning and reshaping the language experience in the classroom both for learners and educators. Language practitioners accept that right technological tools used in appropriate contexts could engage learners through the stimuli of the several senses and increase the learning output for learners. This paper draws on an empirical study carried out in the school of foreign languages in a university in Northern Cyprus (University of Mediterranean Karpasia, Nicosia) in April of 2013. The study inquires the view of learners in a mixed proficiency level learning context about technology use in language classes. There h

Keywords

Technology and Multiple Intelligences Theory, Technological Gadgets, Second Language Learning

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