EFL Teachers' and students' attitudes twords the effect of using portable electronic dictionaries for vocubulary learning
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2016
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university of Oum-El-Bouaghi
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The present study is intended to investigate teachers' and students' attitudes concerning the use of portable or pocket electronic dictionaries for vocabulary learning at Abd El Hafidh Boussouf university, MILA. It aims mainly at answering the following questions: what are the teachers' and students' attitudes towards portable electronic dictionaries as a tool for vocabulary learning? Do EFL teachers and students find any differences between portable electronic dictionaries and printed dictionaries? To answer these questions, it was hypothesized that EFL teachers and students have positive attitudes concerning the use of portable electronic dictionaries as a strategy to enhance vocabulary learning. To verify our hypotheses, we have administered two questionnaires as suitable tools for our research to both teachers and first year LMD students of the departments of English at ABD EL HAFID BOUSSOUF University, who have been chosen randomly during the academic year 20015/20016. Teachers' questionnaire was composed of twenty questions administered to fifteen teachers of different modules and students' questionnaire consisted of twenty- three questions to a sample of forty five students. Both questionnaires dealt with the different aspects of electronic and portable electronic dictionaries and their impact on students' vocabulary learning. The results of the present study reveal that portable electronic dictionaries can be considered an as effective tool for vocabulary learning. Portable electronic dictionaries and printed dictionaries are different in terms of use.
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Langue (anglais) : vocabulaire : enseignement