Technology at the Service of Grammar: Grammatical Development through Computer

Computers have made a remarkable entrance into language education in the past decade, and no one would deny that they have brought significant benefits to teachers and students.In educational contexts, Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) is among those programs which have caused this drastic change. There has been increasing interest in the application of computers and technology in EFL classes in Iran, but for the purpose of teaching grammar, there have been a few studies, if any. The present study investigated the effects of CALL on improving EFL learners' grammatical ability. For this purpose, a multiple-choice test of grammar whose reliability was 0.78 was administered to 80 available TEFL students out of whom 60 students were selected as homogeneous and randomly divided into two groups of 30: a control group and an experimental group. The experimental group was taught English grammar through CALL and the control group received a non-CALL instruction on grammatical structures. The results of the study through a posttest revealed the fact that the experimental group outperformed the control group. It can be suggested that CALL appeared to be useful in developing English grammar of the TEFL students.

کلیدواژه ها:

Technology ، CALL ، Foreign Language learning ، Grammar Development