TITLE:
ELT Teachers’ Role Within E-Learning and Communicative Teaching from Students’ Perceptions
AUTHORS:
Jie Xie, Genlin Zhang
KEYWORDS:
Students’ Perception; Teachers’ Role; E-learning; Communicative Teaching
JOURNAL NAME:
Creative Education,
Vol.3 No.7B,
January
16,
2013
ABSTRACT: The present thesis aims to
empirically determine the effects of technology, specifically the integration
of e-learning within English language teaching, on students’ perception of
teachers’ role. Participants were divided into experimental (e-learning)
E-group and controlled (traditional) T-group. SPSS was used to analyze the data
collected. The results show that, in both groups, students’ perceptions of the
teachers’ role remain positive form the beginning of the term to the end. Such
findings reveal that the role of ELT teachers within e-learning is analogous to
an interactive teacher of the earlier conventions, a multifaceted one with
strategy-oriented tasks ranging from Facilitation, Advising, Conducting
experiments, Engineering activities, to Supporting divergent learning styles,
pathways and creative productions (FACES). However, in the aspects of giving
advice, offering educational and technological support and engineering various
activities, e-learning group of students holds more positive attitude than the
traditional group.