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ARMY POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL
DEPARTMENT OF LANGUAGES
APPLIED LINGUISTICS IN ENGLISH CAREER - DISTANCE
LEARNING EDUCATION
VIRTUAL CLASSROOMS AS A
STRATEGY TO IMPROVE THE ENGLISH
LANGUAGE ACQUISITION OF STUDENTS
OF THE COMPUTING FACULTY
BELONGING TO “UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA
DE CUENCA” DURING THE TERM
OCTOBER – DECEMBER 2010
BY:
Jenny Karina Vizñay Durán
Part I
Problematic
Situation
IDENTIFICATION OF THE PROBLEM
VARIABLES WORKING OUT
GENERAL
SPECIFIC
To demonstrate that the use of
technological teaching methods as Virtual
Classrooms assist the students to
improve
their
English
language
acquisition.
• To promote the use of Virtual Classrooms to
practice the target language.
• To show that the use of this technology
influences on the English learning in a
better way.
• To explain how to use Virtual Classrooms
for the teaching-learning purpose.
JUSTIFICATION
Chapter
1
• Theoretical and Conceptual Focus
Chapter
2
• English Language Teaching
Methodology
Chapter
3
• Technological tools as a complement
in education
Chapter
4
• New trends to improve English
Language acquisition
Part II
CHAPTER I
Theoretical and Conceptual Focus
TEACHING
LEARNING
PROCESS
CHAPTER II
English Language Teaching Methodology
Cognitive
Affective
CONSTRUCTIONISM
Direct
The
natural
approach
Grammar
Translation
Total
physical
response
Audio-
lingual
Community
Language
Learning
Suggestopedia
Silent way
CONSTRUCTIVISM
Linguistic
CHAPTER III
Technological Tools as a Complement
in Education
REAL
VIRTUAL
SPACES
VIRTUAL
HOMOGENIZER
synthetic reality
Methodologies of Virtual Classrooms
Asynchronic
Polarizing
CHAPTER IV
New Trends to improve English
Language Acquisition
Methodology
Experimenting with Methodology
Research
Procedure
Part III
Population
230
Sample
29
GROUPS
PRE-TEST
TREATMENT
POST-TEST
Eg
Prt1
X
Pot2
Cg
Prt3
-
Pot4
Hypothesis
Analysis & Interpretation
of results
Part IV
Hypothesis System
WORKING HYPOTHESIS
NULL HYPOTHESIS
The application of Virtual
Classrooms in English classes help
students of Computing Faculty
belonging to “Universidad Católica
de Cuenca” to improve their
English language acquisition
There is no any improvement in the
learning of English in the students
exposed to Virtual Classrooms
methodology.
EXPERIMENTAL GROUP
PRE-TEST
EXPERIMENTAL
GROUP
POST-TEST
20
27
28
30
12
21
22
21
18
26
10
19
23
28
26
30
Experimental Group Pre-test
Experimental Group Post-test
Sample
n2 = 8
n2 = 8
Mean
x 159
å
x =
= = 19.88
i
2
Variance
8
8
x 202
å
x =
= = 25.25
i
2
8
8
2
2
(
x
x
)
(
x
x
)
2
2
280.88
131.5
2 å i2
2 å i2
s2 =
=
= 40.13 s2 =
=
= 18.79
n2 - 1
7
n2 - 1
7
Standard s = 40.13 = 6.33
x2
Deviation
s x2 = 18.79 = 4.33
EXPERIMENTAL GROUP:
Sample:
n=8
!
d=
di
8
Pretest
=
Difference in mean:
41
= 5.13
8
s2
²
=
(di ! d )2
n! 1
=
Posttest
Difference
20
27
5
28
30
2
12
21
9
22
21
-1
18
26
8
10
19
9
23
28
5
26
30
4
Variance:
86.87
= 12.41
7
sd = 12.41 = 3.52
Standard Deviation:
tobs =
t student:
d
=
sd / n
Region of aceptance
Region of rejection
5.13
= 4,12
3.52 / 8
Significance level:
a = 5%
= 1.628
Degrees of freedom:
ncont - 1 = 8 - 1 = 7
t! = 1.895
tobs= 1,895
MEAN
EXPERIMENTAL GROUP
Series1
Pretest
19.88
Posttest
25.25
GRAPHICAL INTERPRETATION OF THE
MEAN VALUE IN THE EXPERIMENTAL
GROUP (PRE & POST TEST)
CONCLUSION
 The use of Virtual Classrooms
as
a
Strategy
to
improve
English Language Acquisition
had positive results.
RECOMMENDATION
 Suggest to English teachers and train them
in the use of technological tools like Virtual
Classrooms as a complement in the
English Language Acquisition, because it
was demonstrated this strategy allows you
to grab the students’ attention to work in an
interactive way and learn in a funny way.
Part V
GENERAL OBJECTIVES
To develop a technical
guide for helping students
to create an account in:
www.busuu.com
for
learning English in a
funnier way.
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
DEVELOPMENT
To persuade students to In this technical guide students will learn how to:
create
his/her
own
account to have access to 1.Create an account in busuu
this
virtual
classroom
(virtual community) for 2.Use busuu for learning grammar, listening,
learning English.
speaking, writing and chat sessions.
1. Create an account in busuu
2. Use busuu for learning grammar,
listening, speaking, writing and chat
sessions.
Conclusion of this Research Project
* Eg have improved their English
Language Acquistion with the help of
virtual classrooms.
* Students are happy with the use of
this Strategy as a complement in their
education.
* Virtual Classrooms help to teachers in
their classes.
* Virtual Classrooms can be considered
as an assistant to teachers.