Reading Roed's 2003 study about how students personality
emerges in classrooms vs. online is quite an eye opinion experience.
Personally, I predicted that it would result in choosing one of two mediums as the most efficient one. However, to my surprise some students such as Anna and Nick in this study showcase a different type of personality. Things such the exclamation marks and how long one pauses for in a chat-room are the virtual equivalence of body language in classroom. This point is quite interesting. Today I encouraged my students to have an online conversation using What's App; I told them that I want them to convey themselves as virtually rude. Even the most quiet ones seemed to be able to act in a rude way, virtually of course. Tomorrow, we will have the same conversation, but this time we must be as polite as we could. Later we will analyze virtual manners.
According this study, the extrovert students aren't the ones who benefit the most from a more web based learning experience, for they never shine through in class. Online environments allow them to be equally significant. This to me is a great revelation. I have been trying so many strategies to involve those less dominant students. Maybe as teachers when we plan our course module, we should emerge some digital interaction to offer all students chances to express themselves.
Going back to Anna and Nick, their different personality traits are determined from teachers' points of view. If I am do conduct this study differently, I would ask the learners themselves which personality would they like to claim as their own. I feel that this would give us some insights about which medium is more enabling to learners to be themselves.
References:
Roed, Jannie. "Language Learner Behaviour in a Virtual Environment."Computer Assisted Language Learning (2003): 155-72.
Personally, I predicted that it would result in choosing one of two mediums as the most efficient one. However, to my surprise some students such as Anna and Nick in this study showcase a different type of personality. Things such the exclamation marks and how long one pauses for in a chat-room are the virtual equivalence of body language in classroom. This point is quite interesting. Today I encouraged my students to have an online conversation using What's App; I told them that I want them to convey themselves as virtually rude. Even the most quiet ones seemed to be able to act in a rude way, virtually of course. Tomorrow, we will have the same conversation, but this time we must be as polite as we could. Later we will analyze virtual manners.
According this study, the extrovert students aren't the ones who benefit the most from a more web based learning experience, for they never shine through in class. Online environments allow them to be equally significant. This to me is a great revelation. I have been trying so many strategies to involve those less dominant students. Maybe as teachers when we plan our course module, we should emerge some digital interaction to offer all students chances to express themselves.
Going back to Anna and Nick, their different personality traits are determined from teachers' points of view. If I am do conduct this study differently, I would ask the learners themselves which personality would they like to claim as their own. I feel that this would give us some insights about which medium is more enabling to learners to be themselves.
References:
Roed, Jannie. "Language Learner Behaviour in a Virtual Environment."Computer Assisted Language Learning (2003): 155-72.
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