Analyzing the Effect of Technology-Based Intervention in Language Laboratory to Improve Listening Skills of First Year Engineering Students

<div>First year students pursuing engineering education face problems with their listening skills. Most of <span style="font-size: 10px;">the Indian schools use a bilingual method for teaching subjects from primary school through high </span><span style="font-size...

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Main Author: Pasupathi Madhumathi
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Language:English
Published: Universidad Nacional de Colombia 2013-04-01
Series:Profile Issues in Teachers' Professional Development
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Online Access:http://www.revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/profile/article/view/37873
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spelling doaj-9f1012054f7348d895a5c0f11bdde5ad2020-11-25T00:31:01ZengUniversidad Nacional de ColombiaProfile Issues in Teachers' Professional Development1657-07902013-04-01151125138Analyzing the Effect of Technology-Based Intervention in Language Laboratory to Improve Listening Skills of First Year Engineering StudentsPasupathi Madhumathi<div>First year students pursuing engineering education face problems with their listening skills. Most of <span style="font-size: 10px;">the Indian schools use a bilingual method for teaching subjects from primary school through high </span><span style="font-size: 10px;">school. Nonetheless, students entering university education develop anxiety in listening to classroom</span></div><div>lectures in English. This article reports an exploratory study that aimed to find out whether the listening <span style="font-size: 10px;">competences of students improved when technology was deployed in language laboratory. It </span><span style="font-size: 10px;">also investigated the opinions of the students about using teacher-suggested websites for acquiring </span><span style="font-size: 10px;">listening skills. The results of the study indicated that the use of technology in a language laboratory </span><span style="font-size: 10px;">for training students in listening competences had reduced the anxiety of the students when listening </span><span style="font-size: 10px;">to English. Further, there was a significant improvement on the part of students in acquiring listening </span><span style="font-size: 10px;">skills through technology-based intervention.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><div>Muchos estudiantes de ingeniería de primer año en India tienen problemas con sus habilidades de <span style="font-size: 10px;">escucha en inglés; experimentan ansiedad al momento de escuchar conferencias en inglés, pese a que </span><span style="font-size: 10px;">provienen de colegios donde se sigue un modelo bilingüe para enseñar materias desde la primaria</span></div><div>hasta la secundaria. Con el objetivo de averiguar si las competencias de escucha de los estudiantes <span style="font-size: 10px;">mejoran cuando se introduce la tecnología en el laboratorio de idiomas, se realizó un estudio </span><span style="font-size: 10px;">exploratorio en el que se tuvieron en cuenta las opiniones de los estudiantes acerca del uso de sitios </span><span style="font-size: 10px;">web sugeridos por el docente para adquirir habilidades de escucha. Los resultados indican que el uso </span><span style="font-size: 10px;">de la tecnología en el laboratorio de idiomas reduce la ansiedad de los estudiantes al momento de </span><span style="font-size: 10px;">escuchar conferencias en inglés y que progresan significativamente en sus habilidades de escucha.</span></div></div>http://www.revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/profile/article/view/37873English as a second language, English for academic purposes, higher education, listening skills, technology based learning.
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Analyzing the Effect of Technology-Based Intervention in Language Laboratory to Improve Listening Skills of First Year Engineering Students
Profile Issues in Teachers' Professional Development
English as a second language, English for academic purposes, higher education, listening skills, technology based learning.
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title Analyzing the Effect of Technology-Based Intervention in Language Laboratory to Improve Listening Skills of First Year Engineering Students
title_short Analyzing the Effect of Technology-Based Intervention in Language Laboratory to Improve Listening Skills of First Year Engineering Students
title_full Analyzing the Effect of Technology-Based Intervention in Language Laboratory to Improve Listening Skills of First Year Engineering Students
title_fullStr Analyzing the Effect of Technology-Based Intervention in Language Laboratory to Improve Listening Skills of First Year Engineering Students
title_full_unstemmed Analyzing the Effect of Technology-Based Intervention in Language Laboratory to Improve Listening Skills of First Year Engineering Students
title_sort analyzing the effect of technology-based intervention in language laboratory to improve listening skills of first year engineering students
publisher Universidad Nacional de Colombia
series Profile Issues in Teachers' Professional Development
issn 1657-0790
publishDate 2013-04-01
description <div>First year students pursuing engineering education face problems with their listening skills. Most of <span style="font-size: 10px;">the Indian schools use a bilingual method for teaching subjects from primary school through high </span><span style="font-size: 10px;">school. Nonetheless, students entering university education develop anxiety in listening to classroom</span></div><div>lectures in English. This article reports an exploratory study that aimed to find out whether the listening <span style="font-size: 10px;">competences of students improved when technology was deployed in language laboratory. It </span><span style="font-size: 10px;">also investigated the opinions of the students about using teacher-suggested websites for acquiring </span><span style="font-size: 10px;">listening skills. The results of the study indicated that the use of technology in a language laboratory </span><span style="font-size: 10px;">for training students in listening competences had reduced the anxiety of the students when listening </span><span style="font-size: 10px;">to English. Further, there was a significant improvement on the part of students in acquiring listening </span><span style="font-size: 10px;">skills through technology-based intervention.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><div>Muchos estudiantes de ingeniería de primer año en India tienen problemas con sus habilidades de <span style="font-size: 10px;">escucha en inglés; experimentan ansiedad al momento de escuchar conferencias en inglés, pese a que </span><span style="font-size: 10px;">provienen de colegios donde se sigue un modelo bilingüe para enseñar materias desde la primaria</span></div><div>hasta la secundaria. Con el objetivo de averiguar si las competencias de escucha de los estudiantes <span style="font-size: 10px;">mejoran cuando se introduce la tecnología en el laboratorio de idiomas, se realizó un estudio </span><span style="font-size: 10px;">exploratorio en el que se tuvieron en cuenta las opiniones de los estudiantes acerca del uso de sitios </span><span style="font-size: 10px;">web sugeridos por el docente para adquirir habilidades de escucha. Los resultados indican que el uso </span><span style="font-size: 10px;">de la tecnología en el laboratorio de idiomas reduce la ansiedad de los estudiantes al momento de </span><span style="font-size: 10px;">escuchar conferencias en inglés y que progresan significativamente en sus habilidades de escucha.</span></div></div>
topic English as a second language, English for academic purposes, higher education, listening skills, technology based learning.
url http://www.revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/profile/article/view/37873
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