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Effectiveness of an educational software system (Desire2Learn) in teaching English grammar
Mohammad Seemab Khan1, Fatimah Ali2, Ghulam Mustafa3, Shahzad-ul-Hassan Farooqi4.
Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) has brought enormous developments in teaching
and learning process recently. Teaching with computer technology using different methodologies
is one of the widely investigated areas in education sector nowadays. This research aims at
exploring the efficacy of Computer Assisted Language Teaching (CALT) using Desire2Learn
(D2L) Educational software, for teaching subject-verb agreement deductively at Al-Majma’ah
University in Saudi Arabia. This study also investigates the attitude of Saudi EFL learners towards
CALT-D2L’s effect on their learning achievement. Sixty nine undergraduate students of level
three from Department of English, College of Education, Al-Majmaah University, were involved
in this study. The sample was divided into two groups: (CALT-D2L “Experimental Group” while
the other traditional chalk and talk method based as “Control Group”. Analysis of the data of both
groups indicates that experimental group outperformed control group in term of the percentage of
result compared. Moreover students exhibit positive attitude towards using D2L software in
grammar learning.
Affiliation:
- Majmaah University, Saudi Arabia
- Universiti Malaysia Pahang, Malaysia
- Majmaah University, Saudi Arabia
- Majmaah University, Saudi Arabia
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