Document Type
Conference Paper
Rights
Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence
Disciplines
5.3 EDUCATIONAL SCIENCES, *pedagogy
Abstract
The following article relates to an experiment with a group of second year students learning an applied language as a minor subject of their degree. Personal Response Devices were introduced to improve the students’ listening skills by creating more engagement with the course material. It led to 100% participation in class activities run through clickers, facilitated the students in self-evaluating their performance at the tasks and was fun, despite some technical issues occasionally. The experiment fell short however on the reflective aspect. Students were either incapable of or unwilling to reflect on the questions they found difficult. The lecturer was left with improved performances in listening assignments, but no usable feedback on how to support her students in transferring those improved skills to the related area of speaking performance.
DOI
10.21427/D7WR17
Recommended Citation
Hascoet, V.: "Listen and Click": enhancing Listening Comprehension Skills in the Language Classroom through the Use of Clickers. Conference paper. Annual Graduate Student Conference, Learning, Teaching and Technology Centre, Dublin Insititute of Technology, 2012.
Funder
Clicker Award: Learning,Teaching and Technology Centre, DIT, 2011.
Publication Details
Paper presented at the Annual Graduate Student Conference from the Learning, Teaching and Technology Centre, Technological University Dublin, 12 June 2012.