EFL Learners’ Attitudes towards Integrating Multimedia Technology to Develop Intercultural Communicative Competence:A Case Study of Third Year Students at Abdelhafid Boussouf Mila University
Abdelfettah Guerdouh, Dhiya Eddine Abassi, Messaouda Boudjerida
معهد الآداب واللغات-المركز الجامعي عبد الحفيظ بو الصوف · الجزائر
The core purpose of this dissertation is to explore students‟ attitudes towards integrating multimedia technology to enhance their personal development in intercultural communicative competence. It is the case study of third-year students at the Department of Foreign Languages at Abdelhafid Boussouf Mila University. A question was raised in order to have a dependable answer to the problem statement: what do students have as attitudes towards integrating MT tools in teaching to enhance their ICC? Accordingly, the following hypothesis is provided: EFL learners would show positive attitudes towards the use of multimedia technology as a means to develop their intercultural communicative competence if they were taught using it inside the classroom and were exposed to English culture via multimedia technology outside the classroom. To achieve our objective, the research involved both quantitative and qualitative tools. The dissertation is divided into two chapters. The theoretical chapter is comprised of two sections which give an overview on different aspects about intercultural communicative competence and multimedia technology in education. The practical chapter deals with the analysis and discussion of the results of questionnaire and the interview along with a section dedicated to the pedagogical implications of the study. The questionnaire was distributed to one hundred (100) studentswhereas the interview was conducted with ten (10) teachers picked up according to their specialty in the field of the target culture. The findings of the study showed that the majority of the surveyed population held positive attitudes towards the great benefits that they took from using multimedia technology in studying and their total agreement on integrating it more in class. Ultimately, the positive outcomes gathered from this study elevate the need for integrating multimedia technology in class to meet students‟ demands and most importantly to ensure a better educational experience for all