TY - JOUR
T1 - ANALYZING INFORMATION, COMMUNICATIVE AND TECHNOLOGICAL SUPPORT IN SKILLS’ DEVELOPMENT OF LANGUAGE LEARNERS IN OMAN
AU - Tuzlukova, Victoria
AU - Al-Busaidi, Saleh
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - This paper aims at examining information, communicative and technological support of linguistic and generic skills’ development of EFL learners currently existing in the Language Centre of Sultan Qaboos University in Oman. It is founded on understanding the importance of contemporary progress in technologies for empowering language teachers and learners with a variety of information and communication tools (Scully, 2008) and computer software programs that imbibe from “all the specifically human characteristics of development” (Vygotsky, 1987, p.210) and reside on such features as flexibility, facility of access, open dialogue, prompt response to feedback, learning from all parties involved, collaborating, imitating, creating personal learning environments and shared information resources. The examination is conducted from a multidimensional perspective in relation to the concepts of source of learning, support to learning and teaching, stimulation and motivation, and reference (Dudley-Evans, 1998).
AB - This paper aims at examining information, communicative and technological support of linguistic and generic skills’ development of EFL learners currently existing in the Language Centre of Sultan Qaboos University in Oman. It is founded on understanding the importance of contemporary progress in technologies for empowering language teachers and learners with a variety of information and communication tools (Scully, 2008) and computer software programs that imbibe from “all the specifically human characteristics of development” (Vygotsky, 1987, p.210) and reside on such features as flexibility, facility of access, open dialogue, prompt response to feedback, learning from all parties involved, collaborating, imitating, creating personal learning environments and shared information resources. The examination is conducted from a multidimensional perspective in relation to the concepts of source of learning, support to learning and teaching, stimulation and motivation, and reference (Dudley-Evans, 1998).
KW - Language Centre, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, technology-based learning, information resource
M3 - Article
SN - 2334-9212
VL - 4
SP - 105
EP - 112
JO - Journal of Teaching English for Specific and Academic Purposes
JF - Journal of Teaching English for Specific and Academic Purposes
IS - 1
ER -