Teachers’ and Master Students’ Attitudes Towards the Use of PowerPoint Presentations to Improve Students’ Note-Taking Skill in the Department of English at Mouloud Mammeri University of Tizi-Ouzou
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2020-12
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Mouloud Mammeri University of Tizi –Ouzou
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The present study is mainly conducted to investigate teachers’ and students’ attitudes towards the use of PowerPoint presentations to improve students’ note-taking skill. It attempts to determine whether EFL master students and teachers of the department of English at Mouloud Mammeri University of Tizi-Ouzou are interested in the use of PowerPoint for the sake of improving students’ note taking skill. This research is mainly based on one theoretical framework: Richard Mayer’s Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning and adopts a mixed method approach. In fact, an asynchronous online interview is conducted with five teachers, in addition to an online questionnaire designed using Google Forms and administered to Master students of Language and Communication and Didactics of Foreign Languages. In order to analyze the obtained data, the SPSS software is used with the quantitative data, while Qualitative Content Analysis is used with the qualitative one. On the basis of the outcomes of the study, it is revealed that both students and teachers have positive attitudes towards PowerPoint presentations and believe that their integration into the lecture enhance students’ note-taking abilities. Despite the limited use of PowerPoint, which is due to the lack of materials and equipment, both teachers and students recommend its implementation in the classroom.
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63p. : Ill. en coul. ; 30cm.(+CD-Rom)
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Attitudes, Note-taking skill, PowerPoint presentations
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Language and Communication