چکیده:
Given the burgeoning interest in the use of technology and electronic tools for educational purposes among students,this study set out with the purpose of investigating medical students’ perception of using e-learning tools andapplications in an English for Specific Purposes (ESP) program at an Iranian medical university. The study also aimedto discover the extent to which the students prefer to use paper dictionaries, offline mobile dictionaries, computerbased
dictionaries and Internet-based dictionaries. To do so, an electronically-mediated course plan was designed andimplemented for eight weeks. The course plan required the students to use different types of resources, includingelectronic learning tools. Then, a questionnaire eliciting the students’ perception of the significance of using electroniclearning tools in the program and asking the students the extent to which they used different resources (paper
dictionaries, offline mobile dictionaries, computer-based dictionaries and software and Internet-based applications andtools) was developed and used. The results showed that the majority of the students perceived that employingelectronic tools and applications for educational purposes in the program was highly significant. It was also discoveredthat the students gave a high priority to offline mobile dictionaries; Internet-based applications, paper dictionaries and
computer-based dictionaries were other resources they used in the program in order of priority. The study carriespractical implications for teachers and educational policymakers, especially in the developing countries whereproblems with the Internet linger on.
خلاصه ماشینی:
"com Received: December 24, 2017 Accepted: February 11, 2018 Online Published: March 20, 2018 Abstract Given the burgeoning interest in the use of technology and electronic tools for educational purposes among students, this study set out with the purpose of investigating medical students’ perception of using e-learning tools and applications in an English for Specific Purposes (ESP) program at an Iranian medical university.
Then, a questionnaire eliciting the students’ perception of the significance of using electronic learning tools in the program and asking the students the extent to which they used different resources (paper dictionaries, offline mobile dictionaries, computer-based dictionaries and software and Internet-based applications and tools) was developed and used.
To examine the perception Iranian medical students have of employing electronic learning tools and to enrich the literature in this area, the present study investigated medical students’ perception of the significance of using e- learning tools in an ESP course at an Iranian medical university.
To cope with translation problems, medical students use paper dictionaries, offline electronic dictionaries on cellphones (mobile dictionaries), dictionaries on personal computers, and Internet-based or online dictionaries.
Some researchers in the area of second or foreign language teaching (Bataineh, 2014; Osaki, Ochiai, Iso, & Aizawa, 2003) believe that e-dictionaries compared to paper dictionaries help foreign language learners to learn language skills better.
Other studies have also reported that students are very familiar with electronic devices such as cell phones, laptops, personal computers, social networking sites, etc and use them frequently (Green & Hannon, 2007; Kennedy et al."