Using Writing Assistive Technology to Improve EFL University Students Performance

  • سال انتشار: 1403
  • محل انتشار: دوفصلنامه آموزش از دور، دوره: 5، شماره: 2
  • کد COI اختصاصی: JR_IDEJ-5-2_010
  • زبان مقاله: انگلیسی
  • تعداد مشاهده: 25
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نویسندگان

Boukhechba Hicham

Research Assistant, Department of English, Faculty of Letters, Languages, and Arts, University Ziane Achour Djelfa, Algeria

Bouhania Bachir

Professor, Department of English, Faculty of Letters, Languages, and Arts, Ahmed Draia University -Adrar, Algeria.

چکیده

It is a truism that success at university depends on the possession of outstanding writing skills. Yet of all language skills, writing is the most arduous to master and the situation gets even worse in the case of second or foreign languages. The current study aims at investigating the suitable ways to overcome the difficulties students of English face with writing especially in terms of vocabulary items and spelling mistakes by exploring the effects of adapting autocorrect and spell- checkers technologies on their writing skills. The research data comes from an experiment conducted at Adrar University, south of Algeria, in which ۱۸ LMD (Licence-Master-Doctorat, equivalent to the BMD, Bachelor-Master-Doctorate) students utilize autocorrect and spell-checkers as assistive technology. The finding of the experiment shows that the use of assistive technology has perceptible effects regarding the quality of students’ production as these technologies displace the attention from worrying about spelling mistakes to other aspects of writing. The paper does also propose some suggestions regarding the improvement of the writing skill at the level of Algerian Higher educational institutions (HEIs).

کلیدواژه ها

"Assistive technology", "auto-correct technology", "EFL students", "Spell-checkers", "writing skills"

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