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Poster: Mark Warschauer mwarscha@AEDEGYPT.ORG
Subject: Re: Internet and Language
Teaching
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I would suggest to Fatemeh, as well as to others contemplating research in this
area, that comparative experimental research is not always the best approach.
(Fatemeh has hit on the right problem: what kind of "placebo" can be
considered comparable to introducing new online teaching techniques?) Perhaps Fatemeh might want to consider
qualitative research involving observation of the students, examinations of the
messages they send and receive, interviews with students and teachers, etc., to
try to assess the process of online language learning in a particular context.
For examples of this kind of research available online, see a couple of my recent
papers:
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http://www.lll.hawaii.edu/web/faculty/markw/online.html
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http://www.lll.hawaii.edu/web/faculty/markw/online-learning.html
Or also Seppo Tella's 3-part study done a number of years ago:
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http://www.helsinki.fi/~tella/95.pdf
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http://www.helsinki.fi/~tella/99.pdf
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http://www.helsinki.fi/~tella/110.pdf
Cheers,
Mark Warschauer
http://www.lll.hawaii.edu/markw
>>> Fatemeh Alipanahi <alipanahi@IASBS.AC.IR> 04/08 9:45 AM
>>>
Dear colleagues
I, Fatemeh Alipanahi, a student
of Ph.D. in TESL at Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, IRAN, have finished
my courses and have passed my comprehensive exam successfully and now I will be
writing my thesis if my proposal is accepted. It is about INTERNET and LANGUAGE
TEACHING. The research is experimental involving 2 groups, each 20 students.
The experimental group will be taught by Internet and the control group will
receive the placebo. The substantive hypothesis is "the achievement scores
of the students taught with Internet is significantly greater than that of
those taught by non Internet techniques. But I need help. I am stuck in the
procedure of doing this research. I do not know which variable to consider to
conduct it easily but perfectly, (reading comprehension or vocabulary, or..etc.
), how to apply the internet, how to act as a teacher, and what to use as
placebo in control group. I also need some addresses for on line books,
articles, and lesson plans, etc, to get print to read, since none is available
in IRAN. I have some like Belisle 1996 e-mail Activities in TESL Writing
Classes, Frizzy l995 INTERNET AS A TOOL FOR TESL WRITING CLASS, LELOuP, AND
PONTERIO L998 INTERNET TECH. FOR AUTH.LANG. LEARNING EXPERIENCE AND ONE MORE
THE EVAULATION OF THE INTERNET IN FL CLASSROOM L999 BY GARAUS, but as you know
these are not enough for writing such a thesis, and none is experimental one to
give help of the procedure. Therefore, I am impatiently waiting for help. There
is no one in IRAN who can be a help. I also would like to have an advisor to
help me to write my thesis who will be paid all expenses along with some
payment to travel IRAN to attend the defense session. I must say that I am a beginner
in using the Internet, and my subjects will be university students in chemistry,
physics, maths,... learning English at Language Institute. Any help will highly
be appreciated. Please excuse me for any misunderstandings caused by being a
new Internet and computer user.
Sincerely yours
F.Alipanahi
A faculty member of Zanjan Universtiy
Zanjan IRAN
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