Last modified: 2017-01-17
Abstract
The current study sheds light on the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers as well learners’ perceptions of the E-learning role in the EFL learners’ skills development. The aim is to investigate the possible role of the E-learning practicalities in solving the problem realised with the EFL learners’ language use. This research work is an exploratory, descriptive and mixed-methods one. In other words, it aims at describing two variables: the role of E-learning as the independent variable and EFL learners’ language skills’ development as the dependent variable. The data were gathered through qualitative as well as quantitative means. Self-completion interviews and questionnaires administered to twenty-five EFL teachers out of fifty teachers as well as one hundred and seventy students out of eight hundred and fifty of first year EFL students in the Department of English Language and Literature at Mohamed Lamine DEBBAGHINE SETIF-2, ALGERIA. The results have shown that E-learning has an effective role in the development of EFL learners’ language skills. This study has certainly its limitations, but its findings revealed interesting implications. Thus, future research should be done experimentally to test out the applicability of the findings to a larger population of subjects.
Key terms: E-learning- EFL learning- EFL teaching- language skills.