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ARMY POLYTECHNIC SCHOOLDEPARTMENT OF LANGUAGES
APPLIED LINGUISTICS IN ENGLISH CAREER - DISTANCE LEARNING EDUCATION
VIRTUAL CLASSROOMS AS A STRATEGY TO IMPROVE THE
ENGLISH LANGUAGE ACQUISITION OF STUDENTS OF THE COMPUTING
FACULTY BELONGING TO “UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CUENCA” DURING THE TERM OCTOBER – DECEMBER 2010BY:Jenny Karina Vizñay Durán
Problematic Situation
Part I
IDENTIFICATION OF THE PROBLEM
VARIABLES WORKING OUT
GENERAL
To demonstrate that the use of technological teaching methods as Virtual Classrooms assist the students to improve their English language acquisition.
SPECIFIC
• To promote the use of Virtual Classrooms to practice the target language.
• To show that the use of this technology influences on the English learning in a better way.
• To explain how to use Virtual Classrooms for the teaching-learning purpose.
Part II
T E A C H I N G L E A R N I N G
P R O C E S S
CHAPTER ITheoretical and Conceptual
Focus
Cognitive Affective Linguistic
CONSTRUCTIONISM
CONSTRUCTIVISM
CHAPTER IIEnglish Language Teaching
Methodology
CHAPTER IIITechnological Tools as a
Complement in Education
VIRTUALSPACES
synthetic reality
REALVIRTUA
L
HOMOGENIZER
NO
GEOGRAPHIC
LIM
ITS
NO TIM
E
ALL Y
OUR SENSES
WORKIN
G
EASY ACCESS
Methodologies of Virtual Classrooms
Synchronic
Asynchronic
Polarizing
Methodology
Experimenting with Methodology
CHAPTER IVNew Trends to improve English
Language Acquisition
ResearchProcedure
Part III
Population230
Sample 29
HypothesisAnalysis &
Interpretation of results
Part IV
Hypothesis System
EXPERIMENTAL GROUP
PRE-TEST
EXPERIMENTAL GROUP
POST-TEST
20 27
28 30
12 21
22 21
18 26
10 19
23 28
26 30
GRAPHICAL INTERPRETATION OF THE MEAN VALUE IN THE EXPERIMENTAL
GROUP (PRE & POST TEST)
CONCLUSION
The use of Virtual
Classrooms as a Strategy to
improve English Language
Acquisition had positive
results.
RECOMMENDATION
Suggest to English teachers and train them in the use of technological tools like Virtual Classrooms as a complement in the English Language Acquisition, because it was demonstrated this strategy allows you to grab the students’ attention to work in an interactive way and learn in a funny way.
Part V
GENERAL OBJECTIVES To develop a technical guide for helping students to create an account in:www.busuu.com for learning English in a funnier way. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES To persuade students to create his/her own account to have access to this virtual classroom (virtual community) for learning English.
DEVELOPMENT In this technical guide students will learn how to:
1.Create an account in busuu
2.Use busuu for learning grammar, listening, speaking, writing and chat sessions.
1. Create an account in busuu
2. Use busuu for learning grammar, listening, speaking, writing and chat sessions.
Conclusion of this Research Project
* Eg have improved their English Language Acquistion with the help of virtual classrooms.
* Students are happy with the use of this Strategy as a complement in their education.
* Virtual Classrooms help to teachers in their classes.
* Virtual Classrooms can be considered as an assistant to teachers.