LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS IN A TABLET BASED ENGLISH LANGUAGE LAB

Now days, ICT based language laboratories are being used in schools to teach children to communicate effectively. The language lab is a technological breakthrough for learning English and is a need of the hour to enhance English language skills in students.... More

Now days, ICT based language laboratories are being used in schools to teach children to communicate effectively. The language lab is a technological breakthrough for learning English and is a need of the hour to enhance English language skills in students. The present study attempts to study the learning environments in a tablet based English language lab and assess its effectiveness for use with 8thand 9th class students. A widely used questionnaire i.e. Technology-Rich Outcomes-Focused Learning Environment Inventory (TROFLEI) was used to study the learning environments in a tablet based English language lab and also to assess students’ attitude towards English. The study is quantitative in nature and the sample consisted of 138 students taken from one private school of Jammu (India) where this facility was available. Apart from the study of learning environments the other objectives of the study were to compare the actual and preferred learning environments, to investigate associati Less