Exploring New Frontiers: What Do Computers Contribute to Teaching Foreign Lnguages in Elementary School?  

Oleh:

Nutta, Joyce W. ; Feyten, Carine M. ; Norwood, Annette L. ; Meros, John N. ; Yoshii, Makoto ; Ducher, Jeannie

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Foreign Language Annals (Full Text; di PROQUEST 2004 - terbaru) vol. 35 no. 3 (2002), page 293-306.
Fulltext: 35_03_Nutta.pdf (1.31MB)

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Two growing trends in foreign language education, the study o fforeign languages in the elementary school (FLES) and the use of computer-assisted language learning (CALL), have been well researched independently but rarely in concert. This study compares the use of a print and multimedia program to teach Spanish to second through fqth graders from quantitative and qualitative perspectives. The eqerimental portion of the study showed that the achievement and proficiency of students using print or multimedia materials did not differ at postest. However; a small but statistically significant difference in achievement emerged at the delayed test point in favor of the students who used the multimedia materials, although this finding is limited by participant attrition over the 13-month study. The qualitative portion of the study detected differences in language behavior; with the students who used multimedia spending more time to stop, check,

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