Questionnaire for Instructors.pdf
Creators: name: Ahmed, Arif
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 130305 Educational Counselling
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: The ELT scenario in Saudi Arabia has undergone a sea change since the pandemic. With an aim to maximize resource utilization and at the same time, ensure wide learner base, college students (male and female) are taught simultaneously, the former in a face-to-face mode and the latter in an audio-only mode. The nomenclature given to this unique classroom design by the researchers is Lateral Multimodal Learning (LML), one which has its own advantages and disadvantages. Positively, this mode of learning puts a great deal of pressure on the teachers as they have to attend to a huge number of students with different needs and levels of competence, whereas it ensures best utilization of infrastructural and human resources by the administrations. Being a newly developed educational model, it is important to assess the efficiency of this type of learning as undertaken by this study which evaluates the model from the point of view of students (99), using a questionnaire, and that of teachers (06), using semi-structured interviews. The results show that Saudi female students present high perceptions of learning via LML (M=4.03); are satisfied with this type of learning (M= 3.81) and the aids applied in learning via LML (M= 4.02). Findings also show moderate perceptions on the difficulties they encountered while emerging in LML mode (M =3.39). Further, the study shows correlation between the four domains, i.e., perceptions, satisfactions, challenges, and aid. The highest correlations were between perceptions and satisfactions (r=.719); perceptions and aids (r=.659), and satisfaction and aids (r=.656). The teachers’ interviews show their agreement on the efficacy of LML as being professionally fulfilling and one that they would like to continue with in the future too. The study concludes with recommendations, which would be of great benefit and help for all parties/ stakeholders involved. <br>Two five-point Likert scale questionnaires were designed by the researchers themselves. The first questionnaire was designed to check Saudi female students' perceptions due to the participation in LML. The students' questionnaire consists of four domains: (1) students' perceptions on LML, (2) students' satisfaction for being indulged in such learning, (3) the difficulties that Saudi female students encountered and (4) the aids they received from others. The first domain includes 17 items, the second comprised six items, while the third has four items and the last domain includes five items. The questionnaire was sent to three ELT professors to referee its content validity. All their comments were considered. The teachers' questionnaire includes only 11 items and grouped in one domain that is to examine their perceptions toward LML mode.<br>The qualitative data were collected from the six EFL teachers that form the total faculty of EFL at the university where the study was conducted. The researchers isolated themes that have been shown by prior research to be predominant issues in EFL classrooms from the teachers’ point of view. Out of these, eleven themes relevant to the Saudi EFL context were picked to form the questions of the semi-structured interviews. The last question, numbered twelve, was an open ended one which required teachers to list the positive and negative points of the LML practices in Saudi Arabia. Data from the eleven interview questions were quantified to establish leading trends. <br>