Evaluation of the call courseware on enhancing grade seven students' English language

Evaluation of the call courseware on enhancing grade seven students' English language

International conference on computers in education 2003: A conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), 2-5 December, 2003, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre: The second wave…

• Kwok, Percy Lai Yin Dept of Educational Policy and Administration, Hong Kong Institute of Education
• Tze, Luke Kam Chuen Hong Kong Institute of Educational Research, Chinese University of Hong Kong

• Lee, Kar Tin Queensland University of Technology, Australia
• Mitchell, Koren

Hong Kong

International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE 2003)

2003

• G Curriculum, Teaching & Learning: Specific Disciplines
  • GB English Language
    • GBF Teaching Methods of Grammar & Rhetoric & Their Outcomes
• F Learning & Teaching
  • FD Application of Communicative Media, IT in Learning & Teaching

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Secondary Education

This paper is an evaluative report of forty Grade Seven students using a CALL courseware on enhancing learning English, in comparison with a control group of the same size with traditional pedagogy (non-IT) within two weeks. Unlike previous CALL research done on their students' learning attitude or oral ability in Hong Kong, the research focused on testifying the benefits of CALL to junior secondary students' learning English usage through a linguistic post-test, and depicting their perceptions of its user-interface design and instructional activities through a semi-structured survey. Research findings confirmed that in each academic ability group, mean post-test scores were higher when using CALL than not, and that median-ability students had the best post-test performance, compared with other ability groups. Survey responses helped improve the user-interface design with an attention to academic ability factor for future instructional activities.

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• English

Conference Papers

• 9629491443

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2011-05-27