Technology – Enhanced Oral Communication Skills Learning

Abstract

This research paper aimed at investigating the role of technology in helping secondary school English language learners in learning oral communication actively. The research paper is divided into seven main sections that contain the introduction, keywords, the materials and the methods, analysis, findings and conclusion. The main objective of this research paper is to see how can technology help in promoting the ways of learning oral communication actively in secondary schools. The method used for this study was a questionnaire and the participants who had been chosen were two hundred English language teachers. They were requested to give their views on sixteen items of the questionnaire. The following statistical instruments are used for analyzing the collected data (graphical figures, frequency distribution, person correlation co-efficient, median and non=parametric chi-square test). In order to obtain accurate results, statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) was used. The results of the study showed that over seventy five percent of the teachers’ views ranged between (strongly agree / agree ) and less than twenty five percent ranged between (undecided, disagree and strongly disagree). Even in figures, the response answers showed that two thousands, five hundred and forty views ranged between (strongly agree / agree). All the findings in the tables confirmed the importance and the effective role of technology in promoting the oral communication side in secondary schools. The most important findings are technological aids can improve learners’ skills and make school fun. Learners can learn good pronunciation through the computer besides improving their vocabulary.