Bećirović Senad, Brdarević-Čeljo Amna, Delić Haris
International Burch University, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
SN Soc Sci. 2021;1(10):246. doi: 10.1007/s43545-021-00254-y. Epub 2021 Sep 27.
Digital technology has become an essential factor in the process of language learning. This quantitative study investigates the use of technology as well as teacher's support in the process of technology-based learning of English as a foreign language (EFL) among high school students in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The data have been collected by the questionnaire modelling teachers' influence on learners' self-directed use of technology for language learning which consists of seven subscales. The results show that the participants' experience with technology-based language learning (TBL) is rather positive and that teachers have an important role in technology-based foreign language learning, indicating insignificant gender and EFL GPA differences but significant grade level differences on the combined dependent variables of teacher's support. Furthermore, the results revealed insignificant differences on the combined dependent variables of technology use based on the students' gender and grade level but significant differences based on the students' EFL GPA. The findings of this study may assist teachers in engaging students to efficiently use digital technologies in the process of foreign language learning at the high school level.
数字技术已成为语言学习过程中的一个重要因素。这项定量研究调查了波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那高中生在以技术为基础的外语(EFL)学习过程中对技术的使用以及教师的支持情况。数据通过一份问卷调查收集,该问卷对教师在学习者自主使用技术进行语言学习方面的影响进行了建模,问卷由七个子量表组成。结果表明,参与者对基于技术的语言学习(TBL)的体验相当积极,并且教师在基于技术的外语学习中发挥着重要作用,这表明在教师支持这一综合因变量上,性别和EFL平均绩点差异不显著,但年级水平差异显著。此外,结果显示,基于学生的性别和年级水平,在技术使用这一综合因变量上差异不显著,但基于学生的EFL平均绩点存在显著差异。本研究的结果可能有助于教师引导学生在高中阶段的外语学习过程中有效使用数字技术。