عنوان

An exploration of student and academic uses and perceptions of social network sites in foreign language learning

شماره

TLets784693

عنوان اصلي

An exploration of student and academic uses and perceptions of social network sites in foreign language learning

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Alghafri, Maryam

نام ساير پديدآوران

Sikes, Pat ; Davies, Julia

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

University of Sheffield

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2019

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Thesis (Ph.D.)

امتياز متن

2019

متن يادداشت

In this thesis, I explore how Omani students use social network sites (SNSs) as part of their everyday lives and as a tool to learn English. I paid particular attention to the students' uses of SNSs in their English learning. I adopted a sociocultural framework to explore and understand the students' and teachers' practices. I collected the data for this study using a mixed methods approach in the academic year 2014-2015. The data consisted of responses to a questionnaire of 549 students and focus group discussions with 32 participating students from five Colleges of Technology in Oman. The data also consisted of three semi-structured interviews with three English teachers. The findings show that the students' daily uses of SNSs seem to be influenced by many contextual and cultural factors. The findings also show that the majority of Omani students used SNSs in their informal learning of English as a foreign language (EFL). Influenced by their positive approach to SNSs in everyday uses, the students expressed positive perceptions about using SNSs in formal English teaching. The teachers also had positive views about using SNSs in their teaching; however, they faced many challenges in integrating them in teaching. This study shows that integrating SNSs in EFL learning is not always as easy as many of us would believe because SNSs are already an essential part of youths' lives. The findings contribute to our understandings of how the context influences and mediates EFL learning practices.

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Alghafri, Maryam

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Sikes, Pat ; Davies, Julia

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

University of Sheffield

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y