Investigating the Effectiveness of the Bca Web-Based Learning and Teaching Materials in Supporting Primary Students Learning English

This dissertation, "Investigating the Effectiveness of the BCA Web-based Learning and Teaching Materials in Supporting Primary Students Learning English" by Yuet-chu, Mickey, Cheong, 張月珠, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: Abstract Educational reforms are being put into practice in countries all over the world. There is apparently an urgency to reform our education system to improve the quality of teaching and learning. In addition, the rapid development of Information Technology has brought profound changes to language classrooms. It is generally agreed that Information Communication Technology (ICT) should be an essential element of the English Language Teaching and learning. As part of its curriculum reform process, the Education and Manpower Bureau has launched a series of "Web-based Learning and Teaching Support for Basic Competence Assessments" to empower teaching and learning in 2003. It is aimed at providing teaching and learning support for teachers and students. Teachers may make reference to or use the resources according to students' performance in terms of the basic competencies of the curriculum. The web-based interactive tasks and the classroom activities are designed to help students work towards the learning targets in different strands. Included are some questions to enable teachers to reflect on their teaching and students' learning, together with some multimedia tasks, resources, useful websites and suggestions for improvement which teachers may adopt or adapt to improve students' learning. This study has focused on investigating the effectiveness of the Basic Competence Assessments (BCA) Web-based Learning and Teaching materials in supporting primary students learning English. ICT offers new challenges for language teaching. Hong Kong primary teachers' and students' attitudes towards integrating ICT into the language classroom will also be discussed. The researcher has also examined the factors influencing teachers' attitudes towards ICT in education and its integration into their teaching of English. The data come from lesson observations, reflection forms and teacher and student interviews. The results show that integrating technology into teaching and learning is not easy to achieve. In fact, success largely depends on how teachers used the web-based materials to support teaching and learning, their attitudes towards ICT in teaching and the quality of the materials. As teachers implement technology into the classroom, theirexpectations of the role of technology in teaching and learning will undoubtedly change. Administrators and schools need to continually support teachers in their quest to discover how technology can best enhance children's learning. DOI: 10.5353/th_b2960041 Subjects: Web-based instruction - China - Hong Kong English language - Computer-assisted instruction - China - Hong Kong English teachers - China - Hong Kong - Attitudes School children - China - Hong Kong - Attitudes