 Online Approaches to Learning Vocabulary: Teacher-Centred or Learner-Centred?Glenn Stockwell
International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching (IJCALLT), 2011, vol. 1, issue 1, 33-44 Abstract: Examples of learning vocabulary through the computer are appearing with increasing regularity in the recent CALL literature. Much of this learning, however, tends to be teacher-centred in that learners often rely on teachers to select the vocabulary items that they are to study. In the current study, pre-intermediate learners of English studying at a university in Japan were divided into two groups: a teacher-centred (TC) group where the learners were provided with online vocabulary learning activities composed of items selected by the teacher and a learner-centred (LC) group where the learners were required to compile their own vocabulary lists which were then entered by the learners themselves into a specially designed online system that would then create the vocabulary learning activities from these items. Data were collected in the form of pre- and post-testing of vocabulary items that appeared in the teaching materials and through questionnaires regarding their perceptions of the system. Date: 2011 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:igg:jcallt:v:1:y:2011:i:1:p:33-44 Access Statistics for this article International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching (IJCALLT) is currently edited by Bin Zou More articles in International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching (IJCALLT) from IGI Global |
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