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Hamzaoglu, Harika; Koçoglu, Zeynep – Educational Media International, 2016
The present study was designed to investigate: (a) the effect of podcasts in EFL students' oral performance, (b) the effect of podcasts in EFL students' speaking anxiety, (c) the relationship between speaking anxiety and oral performance, and (d) EFL students' perceptions of using podcasts. This study was conducted in a high school in Istanbul,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multimedia Instruction, Multimedia Materials, Speech Communication
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Wentao, Chen; Jinyu, Zhang; Zhonggen, Yu – International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education, 2016
English for Library Science is an essential course for students to command comprehensive scope of library knowledge. This study aims to compare the learning outcomes, gender differences and affective factors in the environments of blended and traditional learning. Around one thousand participants from one university were randomly selected to…
Descriptors: Library Science, Affective Objectives, Blended Learning, Outcomes of Education
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Bassili, J. N. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2006
When presented with the option to use a new instructional technology, students often face an approach-avoidance conflict. This study explored promotion and prevention orientations, concepts linked to approach and avoidance in Higgins's regulatory focus theory, in the choice to attend lectures or watch them online. Openness, a core disposition in…
Descriptors: Personality Assessment, Internet, Teaching Methods, Individual Differences
Schimmel, Barry J. – 1988
This study investigated the relationship between learner attitudes (self-efficacy and anxiety), students' selection of feedback containing different amounts of information (no feedback, correct answer, the explanation alone, and the answer with an explanation), and achievement. Subjects were two clusters of college students (N=49) enrolled in a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Anxiety, College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction
McCombs, Barbara Leherissey; And Others – 1973
The influences of two different instructional techniques--media adjunct programing (MAP) and traditional instructor classroom (TIC) methods--upon several variables were examined. These dependent variables included student learning and retention, state anxiety, state curiosity, time-to-criterion, and student and instructor attitudes. Matched groups…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Anxiety, Conventional Instruction, Curiosity
Bohlin, Roy M. – 1992
This investigation of the relationship of computer anxiety reduction to instructional strategies and learner characteristics used multiple repeated measures in a 2x2x2 quasi experimental design with arousal-seeking tendency, coping style, sex, computer skill mastery, and locus of control as the independent variables. Discrete dependent variables…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Anxiety, Attitude Change, Computer Literacy