Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Tezin Türü: Yüksek Lisans
Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi, EĞİTİM BİLİMLERİ ENSTİTÜSÜ, EĞİTİM BİLİMLERİ ENSTİTÜSÜ, Türkiye
Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2018
Tezin Dili: İngilizce
Öğrenci: SELİN ÇELİKBAŞ
Danışman: İlknur Savaşkan
Özet:As an international language, English, is used by more than three hundred twenty eight million people (Richards & Burns, 2012) as a first, second, or foreign language for communicative purposes. This being the case, one of the aims of teaching English has become the ability to use language for online learning. The present research analyzes the teacher reflections recorded in a diary belonging to the teacher responsible of conducting online English conversation classes and also investigates the students' opinions relating to the Live Learning Program (LLP) conversation classes conducted at a private online language school. These LLP conversation classes which are conducted on weekday evenings are named as "LLP" by the private language school. Students take these courses synchoronously in an online learning environment in order to practice their English and their conversation skills. The lessons are offered to a small number of students taking online English language lessons in a Pre-Intermediate proficiency level classroom on LLP. The purpose of this study is to investigate the reflections of the teacher conducting conversation classes through the LLP and to explore the opinions of the students towards LLP conversation classes. In this sense, a qualitative case study was conducted by gathering data through a reflective teacher diary and student interviews. As a researcher teacher, I kept a diary to take detailed notes about my reflections entailing my particular experiences and exploration of the teaching and learning process during the LLP conversation classes. The interviews (each interview lasted around one hour) were conducted with five students on a voluntary basis throughout eight weeks in the conversation classes and they were recorded and transcribed verbatim. In the light of findings, the study revealed that LLP conversation classes offered various advantages to language learning in the way of the effective design of LLP, interaction between student and instructor, and between student and student. The overall findings of the study revealed that the students were very interested in LLP and pleased with the conversation classes and they had positive views on the integration of online English classes on the LLP because of its being time saving, motivating and cost saving. The findings emerged from the teacher's reflective diary notes and the interviews also showed that students prefer online lessons to face-to-face classes. In addition to these findings, the study revealed that these online conversation classes were very beneficial to students in terms of enjoyable and useful online conversation activities and their enhanced interaction with the instructor and peers in an online comfortable environment. This case study may contribute to similar future research studies of online learning by revealing the advantages and disadvantages of the online learning environment. The teacher reflections assisted with the results attempts to inform researchers of the factors that need to be taken into account, and presents recommendations for successful online learning based on the data collected from the researcher and the students. Student opinions can also contribute to a knowledge base for successful planning and implementation of effective conversation classes through online language learning programs.