The use of technology - enhanced language learning tools in English language among EFL students at Minh Dam Senior High School: Master of TESOL

Abstract

In the era 4.0 of information and technology explosion, learning English is a must which not only helps the students know how to communicate well, but also know how to access, evaluate, analyze, and synthesize the vast quantities of information from the Internet in order to solve complex problems. Therefore, teaching is now becoming a more difficult job in which the teachers’ role and responsibility is also becoming as crucial as they are expected to lead the change of strategies, approaches, and tools in language learning and teaching. They have to replace their obsolete methods with the new one, the student-centered approach, where teachers should not teach everything to the students by using their own tools, strategies, approaches in order to guide them the way to study by themselves. One of the methods the teacher can apply to improve the effectiveness of English teaching and learning is to motivate and help students using technology in learning themselves. From these views, the research aims at investigating EFL students’ attitudes toward the use of technology-enhanced language learning (TELL) tools in English language learning, finding out EFL students’ use of TELL tools in English language learning, and examining the relationship between EFL students’ attitudes toward the use of TELL tools in English language learning and their use of TELL tools. The results show that they strongly agree TELL tools are good methods to help them improve English and encourage them autonomy learning effectively.