Al Fryan Latefa Hamed
Department of Education Technology, College of Education, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, P.O. Box 84428, Riyadh, 11671, Saudi Arabia.
Heliyon. 2024 Aug 17;10(16):e36436. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e36436. eCollection 2024 Aug 30.
The utilization of educational technologies has become a mainstream issue in recent years, particularly in the post-pandemic era. The need for technologies and the procedures for implementing them is, therefore, increasingly becoming a core subject and an interesting area of research in foreign language instruction. The present research aimed to explore the utilization of technology in teaching and learning FLT at Princess Nourah University in Saudi Arabia. The research adopted a quantitative survey study based on the data collected from 169 students using a 48-item questionnaire. The results showed that the most used technologies by students are FLT learning videos on YouTube, browsing electronic sites, and searching educational sites. The findings also revealed that the most common technologies used by teachers include e-mail, learning management systems, and gamification. The least used technologies were artificial intelligence, Boostlingo, and Kahoot, which are considered more relevant to FLT instruction [30]. For FLT students, the most challenging obstacles in utilizing technologies were a lack of training on using relevant technologies and limited electronic sites supporting FLT learning. Amongst the recommendations that the researcher highlighted based on these study findings include the fact that students must still utilize more innovative technology relevant to FLT learning, as most of this technology is considered common. All recommendations highlighted aim to develop technology-based FLT teaching and learning in the College of Languages at PNU. For research ethics purposes, the researcher achieved Approval Exempt (IRB Log # 22-0348), date: 29/May 2023.
近年来，教育技术的应用已成为一个主流问题，尤其是在疫情后时代。因此，对技术的需求及其实施程序日益成为外语教学中的核心主题和一个有趣的研究领域。本研究旨在探讨沙特阿拉伯努拉公主大学在对外语言教学（FLT）中技术的应用情况。该研究采用了定量调查研究方法，基于从169名学生那里收集的数据，使用了一份包含48个条目的问卷。结果显示，学生最常使用的技术是YouTube上的对外语言教学学习视频、浏览电子网站以及搜索教育网站。研究结果还表明，教师最常用的技术包括电子邮件、学习管理系统和游戏化。使用最少的技术是人工智能、Boostlingo和Kahoot，这些技术被认为与对外语言教学更相关[30]。对于对外语言教学专业的学生来说，在使用技术方面最具挑战性的障碍是缺乏相关技术使用培训以及支持对外语言教学学习的电子网站有限。基于这些研究结果，研究者强调的建议包括，学生仍必须更多地使用与对外语言教学学习相关的创新技术，因为大多数此类技术被认为很常见。所有强调的建议旨在发展努拉公主大学语言学院基于技术的对外语言教学。出于研究伦理目的，研究者获得了豁免批准（IRB日志编号#22 - 0348），日期：2023年5月29日。
