Student views on learning grammar with web- and book-based materials

Jarvis, H; Szymczyk, M

Abstract

This paper reports on a study which examined students’ attitudes to learning
grammar in autonomous contexts and their preferences for the learning materials with which to do so. In all, 38 students were surveyed and 13 of these then spent some time working in a language resource centre (LRC) with web- and paper-based materials. Students then completed a series of questionnaires concerning what they liked and disliked about the two types of materials. Four participants were then interviewed in more detail about their responses. The data suggest that despite the well-documented advantages of the tutorial role of computers and the notion of the ‘digital native’, participants generally preferred working with paper-based materials. The paper concludes with a discussion of the implications of this for materials that LRCs stock and for the changing role of computers in self-study contexts

Citation

Jarvis, H., & Szymczyk, M. (2010). Student views on learning grammar with web- and book-based materials. ELT Journal, 64(1), 32-44. https://doi.org/10.1093/elt/ccp006

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2010
• Deposit Date: Dec 21, 2009
• Publicly Available Date: Dec 21, 2009
• Journal: English Language Teaching Journal
• Print ISSN: 0951-0893
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 64
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 32-44
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/elt/ccp006
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/elt/ccp006
• Related Public URLs: http://eltj.oxfordjournals.org/