Students’ Attitudes Towards the Effect of Using Zoom Lecturing Application to Enhance EFL Learning during Covid-19 Lockdown. A case study: IRISS Private School in Tizi-Ouzou.
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2021
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Mouloud Mammeri University OF Tizi-Ouzou
Abstract
The present study is mainly concerned with students’ attitudes towards the effect of using Zoom
Application to enhance EFL learning during Covid-19 lockdown. It investigates and determines
the attitudes that students exhibit toward this modern technology. This research has two main
objectives. The first objective is to evaluate EFL students’ attitudes in IRISS private school in
Tizi-Ouzou towards using Zoom Lecturing Application as a new tool to enhance EFL learning
during Covid-19, and the second objective is to identify EFL teachers’ purposes towards the
use of Zoom Application during Covid-19. The research approach that is adopted in this
dissertation is Davis’ Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and Vygotsky Collaborative
Learning Theory. In order to collect the relevant data for this research, an online questionnaire
has been administered to forty-five (45) learners at IRISS private school in Tizi-Ouzou and a
structured online interview has been conducted with four (4) teachers from the same setting by
using Zoom Application. The data which has been obtained from the closed-ended questions of
the questionnaire has been analysed by using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS),
and Qualitative Content Analysis (QCA) has used to interpret and explain the open-ended
questions of the interviews. The findings from this research provide evidence that EFL students
in IRISS private school in Tizi-Ouzou have positive attitudes towards the effect of using Zoom
Application and they perceive it as an effective and a motivating tool for EFL learning.
Moreover, most of the teachers find this application as a useful and an easy additional support
way for learning and teaching. The main conclusions drawn from this study is that since
students have positive attitudes towards using Zoom Application, its implementation would be
a helpful step for learning English as a foreign language.
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71p. ; Ill. en coul. ; 30cm. +(cd)
Keywords
Zoom lecturing Application, Covid-19, students’ attitudes, Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), Collaborative Learning Theory.
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Language and Communication