The development of learner autonomy through internet resources and its impact on English language attainment
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2012
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Adam Mickiewicz University
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Since the arrival of the Internet and its tools, computer technology has become of considerable
significance to both teachers and students, and it is an obvious resource for foreign language
teaching and learning. The paper presents the results of a study which aimed to determine the
effect of the application of Internet resources on the development of learner autonomy as well as
the impact of greater learner independence on attainment in English as a foreign language. The
participants were 46 Polish senior high school students divided into the experimental group (N =
28) and the control (N = 18) group. The students in the experimental group were subjected to
innovative instruction with the use of the Internet and the learners in the control group were
taught in a traditional way with the help of the coursebook. The data were obtained by means
questionnaires, interviews, learners’ logs, an Internet forum, observations as well as language
tests, and they were analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. The results show that the experimental
students manifested greater independence after the intervention and they also outperformed
the controls on language tests.
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Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, vol. 47.2-3 (2012), pp. 69-91
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0081-6272