Effects of CALL-mediated TBLT on motivation for L2 reading

Task-based language teaching (TBLT) has been drawing researchers’ and practitioners’ interest since its early onset in the 1980s. In a task-based approach, students learn language by doing interesting, relevant, and hands-on pedagogic tasks that raise their interest and keep their involvement. The r...

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Main Authors: Hossein Tavakoli, Ahmad Reza Lotfi, Reza Biria
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2019-01-01
Series:Cogent Education
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2331186X.2019.1580916
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description Task-based language teaching (TBLT) has been drawing researchers’ and practitioners’ interest since its early onset in the 1980s. In a task-based approach, students learn language by doing interesting, relevant, and hands-on pedagogic tasks that raise their interest and keep their involvement. The rich and still developing literature on TBLT is helping to evolve both its theoretical conceptualization and practical implementation in foreign and second language education. Likewise, computer-assisted language learning (CALL) has developed as a field, with the use and integration of technology in the classroom continuing to increase and will continue to play a key role in this maturation process. The present study, hence, reports on an empirical study that investigated the effectiveness of CALL-mediated TBLT on the motivation of Iranian university non-English major EFL students. A significant effect was found for CALL-mediated TBLT (F = 267.932, p = .000, partial eta squared = .770), suggesting CALL-mediated TBLT had a positive effect on the motivation of the students in the experimental group on the posttest. Results of this study have both theoretical and practical implications and might shed light on the gap between the potentials and affordances of CALL-mediated TBLT.
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spelling doaj.art-4708f0870ea84a0c84c25b810965b7d52023-08-02T00:27:57ZengTaylor & Francis GroupCogent Education2331-186X2019-01-016110.1080/2331186X.2019.15809161580916Effects of CALL-mediated TBLT on motivation for L2 readingHossein Tavakoli0Ahmad Reza Lotfi1Reza Biria2Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad UniversityIsfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad UniversityIsfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad UniversityTask-based language teaching (TBLT) has been drawing researchers’ and practitioners’ interest since its early onset in the 1980s. In a task-based approach, students learn language by doing interesting, relevant, and hands-on pedagogic tasks that raise their interest and keep their involvement. The rich and still developing literature on TBLT is helping to evolve both its theoretical conceptualization and practical implementation in foreign and second language education. Likewise, computer-assisted language learning (CALL) has developed as a field, with the use and integration of technology in the classroom continuing to increase and will continue to play a key role in this maturation process. The present study, hence, reports on an empirical study that investigated the effectiveness of CALL-mediated TBLT on the motivation of Iranian university non-English major EFL students. A significant effect was found for CALL-mediated TBLT (F = 267.932, p = .000, partial eta squared = .770), suggesting CALL-mediated TBLT had a positive effect on the motivation of the students in the experimental group on the posttest. Results of this study have both theoretical and practical implications and might shed light on the gap between the potentials and affordances of CALL-mediated TBLT.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2331186X.2019.1580916task-based language teaching (tblt)computer-assisted language learning (call)call-mediated tbltmotivation
spellingShingle Hossein Tavakoli
Ahmad Reza Lotfi
Reza Biria
Effects of CALL-mediated TBLT on motivation for L2 reading
Cogent Education
task-based language teaching (tblt)
computer-assisted language learning (call)
call-mediated tblt
motivation
title Effects of CALL-mediated TBLT on motivation for L2 reading
title_full Effects of CALL-mediated TBLT on motivation for L2 reading
title_fullStr Effects of CALL-mediated TBLT on motivation for L2 reading
title_full_unstemmed Effects of CALL-mediated TBLT on motivation for L2 reading
title_short Effects of CALL-mediated TBLT on motivation for L2 reading
title_sort effects of call mediated tblt on motivation for l2 reading
topic task-based language teaching (tblt)
computer-assisted language learning (call)
call-mediated tblt
motivation
url http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2331186X.2019.1580916
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