This paper is not meant as a treatise on the use of IT in education, in particular rural primary/elementary schools. However, as the title suggests, the paper does want to open up for discussion some of the following issues. 1. How is IT being used or might be used as an effective learning tool in school education, and rural primary/elementary schools specifically? 2. What are the barriers, if ...

This dissertation study examined a broad question of whether computer-based grammar tutorials are effective and welcome tools to review grammar for language learners by investigating effects of three different modes of such tutorials on learners’ knowledge and satisfaction. For this study, I developed experimental tutorials in three different modes (a static text with a voice-over narration, an...

The purpose of this study is to examine the responses English teachers utilizing an AI-based interactive application, Odinga English. To determine their views, a case was conducted with four teachers. findings are as follows. First, contents application consisted fun elements graphics which had positive effect on increasing learners’ interest and motivation. In addition, learners improved self-...

There is questionable educational benefit in elementary/middle school in having learners surfing the Web without a clear task in mind. This is a report on the barriers and solutions encountered by three elementary/middle level teachers during their creation of two science WebQuests during the WebQuest/PDN Project, a joint university/school network venture in Maine. In the development phase, the...

Several researchers indicate that to pose arithmetical word problems is an important way to learn arithmetic. However, the problem posing practice actually is not popular. In this paper, we describe an Intelligent Learning Environment which realizes the problem posing practice. In the problem posing practice, the learners pose problems by using the tools provided by the ILE. The ILE has a facil...

The present study investigated the effect of the keyword method of vocabulary teaching on the learning and longterm retention of vocabulary in a normal EFL classroom context. Fifty elementary EFL students were selected and assigned into experimental and control groups. The experimental group received vocabulary instruction using mnemonic keyword method and the control group received conventiona...

Being able to read well is crucially important for language learners. Successful performance at elementary and high school level, as on higher levels of academic education, partly dependent the ability read. It believed that good learners are those who proficient in reading. However, building such a connection between reader written information complex both English second (ESL) foreign (EFL) st...