THE ATTITUDES OF TEACHERS AND STUDENTS TOWARDS USING WEB 2.0 TOOLS IN EFL CLASS

Year 2021, Volume: 5 Issue: 1, 11 - 22, 27.06.2021

Nuray Okumuş Ceylan

Abstract

An important goal of the language learning process is to develop the student's interest in looking for opportunities for communication and the willingness to communicate in them. This will depend on many factors such as the student's personality, social situation, communicative competence, the desire to communi-cate with particular peer, etc. (Chapelle, 2001, p.50). Considering these factors, Web 2.0 tools can provide learners with realistic reasons to communicate and develop their communicative competence which is one of the main goals of the communicative language teaching applied in EFL settings in Turkish state uni-versity English prep schools. Since the learners in such schools do not have the opportunity to use English outside the classroom context except the internet fa-cilities. Therefore, implementing Web 2.0 tools into English language teaching curriculum in such contexts should seriously be taken into consideration to con-sider students with realistic reasons to communicate in English to develop their communicative competence. Thus, this paper aims to find out the attitudes of the teachers and students in Bülent Ecevit University Incirharmanı Prep School. The implications of this study may provide teachers who are to teach in a communi-cative language teaching based program and fail to provide their students with real aims and contexts to use the target language with some ideas on how to and why to implement Web 2.0 materials into their syllabus.

Keywords

Web 2.0, teacher attitudes, communicative language teaching

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