Abstract
Online learning environment and strategies provide ample and valid opportunities to explore, discover and perform with the wonders of technology. This paper surveys and analyses the online language learning environment of college students in Tamil Nadu. The study examines the specific advantages of the learning environment and the instructional methods employed in the virtual learning environment. The study is undertaken with college students from different districts of Tamil Nadu who underwent a pre-assessment and a post assessment before and after they participated in the structured online English language classes constituting the research. The study puts forward the use of technology, different modern teaching theories and practises, a deviation from normal teaching, innovative online teaching methods of English language skills, a difference of learning scenario, all intended to benefit students with different language levels and comprehensive capacities, and most significantly to balance and tone down lapses, if any, in online learning environment. The pre and post assessments of the participant students are statistically presented herewith which depicts the benefits as well as barriers of online language learning environment of college students in Tamil Nadu.
Highlights
There are countless means to connect technology with education (Kenning, 2007)
The students produced better second language output when listening, speaking, reading and writing in the provided online learning environment compared to the output shown before the commencement of the study
The study reveals that if students are provided an open and anxiety free environment to write, they take the required initiative to create their own output in writing which will develop their writing skill in the process
Summary
There are countless means to connect technology with education (Kenning, 2007). The platform of online classes is a part of online learning which includes web-based learning, online journals, educational movies, etc, all related to the technology in education. There are a number of pedagogic approaches that employ technology in education, like, project-based approach, web-based approach, online-based learning, etc. These approaches are either studentcentered, where the students have to do self-access learning; or teacher-centered, where the teacher plays the main role in delivering knowledge. In online-based learning approach for English language, the teacher acts as an instructor of the language subject and guides the students to look for information on the internet. Enhanced means to encourage effective communication between the instructor and the students is a specific advantage of online English language teaching and learning among many other advantages. The researcher is committed to be a research initiative in providing quality English language programs relevant to the future career of the students, programmed with desired course materials and to make their communication skill, which was a challenging one all these years, an easy – go process
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