Week 5 Reflection

     This week, we have read the How a web-based course facilitates acquisition of English for academic purposes by  Chen, J., Belkada, S. & Okamoto, T. This article provided a lof of terms, like intra-personal task, inter-personal task, SLA, etc. This case study has based on a lot of research findings.
     The experimental study has the focus to examine the form, function, and impact of interaction in the course. In the experiment, the students has been divided into two treatment groups, a controlled group with inter-personal task treatment; an experiment group with intra-personal task treatment. There are 20 dialogues. Each dialogue contained three videos from simple to complex and a set of questions in different task types. During the experiment process, the study consisted of six one-hour sessions and took place over a 2-week period. The participants were required to access the course at the same time each session. There are 3 major processes, the first one is Pre-treatment Questionnaire. The second procedure is Experimental Session: Each time, the participants were allowed to select their preferred video clips. While listening, they participated in question and answer sessions and received feedback from remote sites after each interaction. The last procedure is Post-Treatment Questionnaire: fill out 5 statement questionnaire after each course. It was expected that the participants’attitudes would gradually change as they got more familiar with the Web-based course.  The result of the experiment is that web-based course was well designed to maximize the students’ language learning experience as well as to improve their language abilities in English.
     From the reading, I have also learned that the well using of technology can help students to improve their language abilities. In the future, I will try to use proper technology to make my teaching more efficient.