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Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal – Vol. 10, No. 8
Publication Date: August 25, 2023
DOI:10.14738/assrj.108.15458.
Alshahrani, N. (2023). Integration E-Learning Tools in Teaching and Learning English Language: Literature Review. Advances in Social
Sciences Research Journal, 10(8). 396-399.
Services for Science and Education – United Kingdom
Integration E-Learning Tools in Teaching and Learning English
Language: Literature Review
Nada Alshahrani
Faculty of English Language and Translation, University of Jeddah,
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and University of Reading, Reading, UK
ABSTRACT
This paper as a literature review, its primary goal is to examine the effect of the
employment of E-Learning tools technology in teaching and learning English
language. The English language play an important and crucial role in education
environment. As a result, it is an essential for students to acquire a good
understanding in education environment. Using traditional style in delivering
information to learners might not assist and expand their English skills. Integration
new technology in teaching and learning English language is a good technique that
can help learners to acquire information quickly. Hence, this research the impact of
the adoption of e-learning tools in teaching and learning English language. Also, this
paper will provide some recommendations and suggestions for the future work.
Keywords: English, Language, Teaching and learning
INTRODUCTION
Teachers of the English language in colleges and schools are currently looking for innovative,
effective teaching strategies to help them enhance their students' learning. The strategies and
methods used by teachers may have a significant impact on the students' level of knowledge.
The fact that certain students find it difficult to acquire the English language leads instructors
to look for innovative teaching strategies, approaches, methods, and training programs that will
help them fulfill the demands of the students who are learning English language.
However, despite the advantages of incorporating technology into English language teaching a
nd learning, Algahtani (2019) claims that educators rarely rely on it when instructing student
s. These advantages include time savings, simplicity of information acquisition and interaction
among teachers and students, all of which enhance the caliber of the learning process.
Additionally, it gives students a chance to observe how English is actually used in daily life
(Alahrbi and Lally,2017). English teachers should focus on developing their teaching methods
and styles as this inspire and motivate students to participate in the instructional activities.
Implementing E-Learning tools into teaching strategies can help students in many ways such
as allow them to study quickly and raise their achievements. As a result, the current review of
the literature will concentrate on prior studies that looked at the impact of utilizing e-leaning
tools in teaching and learning English language.
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Alshahrani, N. (2023). Integration E-Learning Tools in Teaching and Learning English Language: Literature Review. Advances in Social Sciences
Research Journal, 10(8). 396-399.
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.14738/assrj.108.15458
THE AIM
This paper is aimed to review the research that conducted related to adopt new technology in
teaching and learning English language in order to provide a comprehensive understanding of
the benefits of integration lates technology in teaching and learning process especially for
English language.
LITERATURE REVIEW
As the adoption of technology in teaching and learning process have become an essential part
of education in general and in teaching and learning English skills specifically, this section
presents and review the study that examine the integration and employment of technology in
teaching and learning English language.
Lin and Yang in 2011 conducted research in Taiwan. The sample consisted of 32 leaners in
English language department. The goal of the research was to investigate the wiki platform
technology by students’ perceptions in terms of improving their writing skills. The authors used
interview, observations and survey in order to collect the data. The study revealed that despite
the obstructions of functional and physiological that leaners encounter when they used the new
technology, they were enjoyable to learn by using wiki technic rather than traditional methods
which improve their writing skills and getting feedback immediately from their educators or
peers. Tao 2022 indicated that teaching English language for students based on internet of
things could assist to improve leaners skills and help them in terms of control their progress.
This means that incorporate technology in teaching and learning practices will help to improve
students’ performance. Another author such as Cutter 2015 mentioned that leaners were prefer
to adopt new technology in their learning practice instead of using textbooks. As a result, it is
essential to integrate e-learning tools by teachers in educational process when they teach their
students.
Kazu and Issaku carried out research in 2021 in one university in Turkey. The study aimed to
investigate the leaners views of the implementation of technology in teaching English language.
The authors used a questionnaire for collecting the data with 303 students from ELT college.
The results of the paper revealed that participants opinion of the integration of technology in
their lessons were positive. Also, participants mentioned that they can manage their learning
without their educators. Another result from the study is that learners indicted that they have
motivation to learn when their teachers teach by using technology. Participants also reported
that they can learn the concepts and ideas of English language. The authors mentioned some
challenges that affect the implementation of technology-based classroom.
The first challenges were that insufficient equipment of technology in the classrooms.
Secondly, educators suffering from inadequate training about the integration of technology in
teaching English language. The authors also mentioned that learners have lack of information
of the use of technology in learning English language. The study suggested some
recommendations such as that the educators should teach their learners how to use new
modern of technology when they learn English language. Also, the study indicated that
educators need support department that can help them with any technical issues.
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THE DISADVANTAGES OF THE USE OF TECHNOLOGY IN TEACHING AND LEARNING
Distraction and false information may be the most detrimental elements of using technology.
In other words, it might be challenging for teachers to get all of their pupils to pay attention to
the material when they use Twitter as a learning tool. Additionally, incorrect information could
be taught to kids from websites, affecting their prior knowledge and information. Additionally,
since face-to-face interaction between teachers and students is not possible with online
learning, it is possible for pupils to become demotivated and disheartened. Last but not least,
privacy concerns have been identified as a challenge for technology users in the educational
setting (Cruzd, Staves, and Wilk, 2012).
THE ADVANTAGES OF THE USE OF TECHNOLOGY IN TEACHING AND LEARNING
The usage of technology in the educational setting has a lot of benefits, according to the
literature studies. As an illustration, technology offer students a fun atmosphere where they
can connect with educators or their peers. Moreover, technology enables teachers to publish
assignments and questions students at any time. Additionally, students do not need to be in a
specific location to turn in their assignments, they can do it at anytime during the day. The
results of the literature review carried out by Alharbi et al. (2019) on the advantages of
integration new technology in Saudi context suggested that the employment of technology,
including google classroom tools, can assist to enhance the calibre of teaching and learning.
According to Alsolamy (2017) the use of new technology in teachning and learning can help
students think more in terms of critically and reflectively. The author also noted that how
technology can help in terms of sharing information quickly among students.
METHODOLOGY
The search method used for this research to locate the sources and pertinent publications was
carried out in a number of different ways. First, the researchers searched relevant websites and
databases using key phrases like techn logy, Elearning tools, social media, and the
Englishlanguage. These databases and websites included university libraries, Google Scholar,
conferenc procedures, etc. Each paper's referenclist was also examined to look for any further
reports orresearch that might be pertinent. Finally, the approach reached a saturation point
where no fresh publications could be found.
CONCLUSION, RECOMMENDATIONS AND LIMITATIONS
This study aimed to review the research that adopted technology for teaching and learning
English language. Also, this study tried to review the papers that presented the benefits of the
use of technology in teaching and learning English language. This paper presented that the
integration of technology in teaching English language can provide many benefits for learning
environment. Educators should pay attention to their technical skills in order to employ e- learning tools effectively in their daily classroom.
As this paper provide the comprehensive understanding of the use of technology education
process, however; there are some limitations such as there are not many studies included in
this paper that conducted in different nations. As a result; new paper can be carried out
including many types of research from different countries, which might help to find out more
understanding of the use of technology in teaching and learning English language.