Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.2478/exell-2020-0013

English goes digital: Framing pre-service teachers’ perceptions of a learning management system in their EFL studies

Oleksandr Kapranov ; Department of Language, Literature, Mathematics and Interpreting, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen

Abstract

This article introduces and discusses an empirical investigation that aimed to establish how pre-service teachers of English (hereinafter “participants”) framed their perceptions of Canvas, a learning management system (LMS), in their studies of English as a Foreign Language (EFL). In the present study, the participants and their respective controls (i.e., non-teacher EFL students) were requested to write a short reflective essay associated with the use of the LMS in their EFL course. All participants and the control group used Canvas as their LMS. The corpus of the participants’ and controls’ reflective essays was analysed qualitatively by means of framing analysis. The results of the qualitative framing analysis revealed that whilst there were similari-ties in the participants’ and controls’ framing, the corpus of the participants’ essays involved instances of framing that were specific to the participants’ perceptions of Canvas. These findings and their linguo-didactic implications were further presented in the article.

Keywords

learning management platform; framing analysis; English as a Foreign Language (EFL)

Hrčak ID:

249974

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/249974

Publication date:

14.1.2021.

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