초록 열기/닫기 버튼
Multimedia courseware is considered to be very effective in motivating students by providing game-like functions and appealing visual images, with moving characters, authentic language input/output, as well as repetitive language to better facilitate language learning. However, implementation of multimedia courseware in public schools does not prevail at the moment in spite of its success in some school classrooms. Therefore, the purpose of this quantitative and qualitative study is to make a suggestion to use multimedia courseware in on-offline setting(blended learning) to normalizing school English education. This study exemplifies the effectiveness of a multimedia courseware, entitled Reading Assistant, which enables students to achieve reading fluency by raising phonic awareness through guided reading. Research was conducted in three different schools: a primary school, a middle school, and a high school. The results show positive effects that students achieved in reading fluency, listening, and speaking. Furthermore, students displayed improvement in academic tests and positive attitude toward using multimedia courseware. It is concluded that the blended model of combining conventional classroom teaching with multimedia courseware is likely to maximize the effect in learning English for the public schools in Korea.
키워드열기/닫기 버튼
Multimedia courseware/Blended learning/reading courseware/oral reading
