DOES TECHNOLOGY

HELP WITH

VOCABULARY

ACQUISITION IN A

WORLD LANGUAGE

CLASSROOM?

Piedmont College

Tamara Linares

LET ME SET THIS UP….

MY PERSONAL DISCLAIMER

• 15 years since I received my Masters @ Piedmont

College

• Enjoyed the personal growth and development

• Fabulous and well prepared professors

• Excellent colleagues

• I am a lot more confident with the new educational

trends

• I found out I needed glasses

• I owned it!!

Second Language Acquisition…With/Without Technology

Beliefs/Attitudes/Perceptions of Stakeholders

Surveys of parents/students/WL educators at CCSD

T-test of 1 Unit without Technology

T-test of 1 Unit with Technology

Results

INTRODUCTION

REVIEW OF

LITERATURE

Does Technology Help

With Vocabulary

Acquisition in a World

Language Classroom?

PROBLEM QUESTION

METHODOLOGY

PARTICIPANTS

Beliefs, Perceptions, Results

27 teacher

s

30 student

s

41 parents

RESULTS QUALITATIVE APPROACH SURVEYS

UNDERSTAND BELIEFS AND PERCEPTIONS WITH SLA & TECHNOLOGY

QUANTITATIVE APPROACH ASSESSMENTS WITH TECHNOLOGY

ASSESSMENTS WITHOUT TECHNOLOGY

75% of the

parents believe

that there

should be

technology

within the World

Language

classroom.

PARENT SURVEY

83% of the students believe that technology has a place in the World Language classroom.

STUDENT SURVEY

100% of the World

Language

teachers surveyed

believe that

technology has a

place in the World

Language

classroom.

WL TEACHER SURVEY

A t-test has shown that

comparing the pre-test and

post-test of a unit without

using technology AND a

pre-test and post-test of a

unit with technology have

no statistically

significant difference.

(p>.05)

T-TEST RESULTS

CONCLUSION

SLA

W/TECH

W/OUT TECH

EATING CROW

I am eating crow when it comes to DMR’s

Data Analysis is where it is at

We have always done it

Now it is formalized to enhance learning &

instruction Without data there is no analysis because no information has

been collected. Without analysis of information, informed

decisions cannot be made.

Thank you for

coming!

Any

questions?