ICT를 활용한 고등학교 영어회화 교수학습의 효과

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether or not teaching and learning English using ICT in a high school English conversation class brings about the positive changes on students’ affective factors and communicative competence. Tasks from each unit of the English conversation textbook were reconstituted to carry out ICT using activities and ICT resources were selected which can provide supplementary or enriched lessons for the students. The findings of this study are as follows: Fisrt, communicative activities based on the teaching and learning model using ICT were effective in increasing high school students’ affective factors. Second, teaching and learning English using ICT showed statically meaningful improvement of the students’ listening ability. However, their speaking ability didn’t improve much because ICT was used just as the presentation tools for aiding the speaking activities. Third, students’ answers on the questionnaire and comments showed using on-line cafe in English class was useful for the students. In conclusion, teachers should make good use of ICT in high school English conversation classes. It would be better if ICT resources can be used as the supplementary or enriched learning materials relating to the topics or communicative functions of the textbook.