A research on the effect of computer assisted language learning on the students success

SUMMARY A RESEARCH ON THE EFFECT OF COMPUTER ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING ON THE STUDENT SUCCESS. Keywords : Computer, computer assisted education, education technology, computer assisted learning language. The aim of this research is to observe the effect of computer assisted language learning on student's success; for this reason, a pre-test and post-test were applied to model groups and the research was done in a classroom and a laboratory. The sample was taken from the seventh grade students in the Private Enka Primary School in Sakarya, Adapazarı. There were 13 students in the Experimental Group, and 13 students in the Control Group, and there were totaly 26 students in the research. As a result of the research it was found out that the experiment group having computer assisted language learning is considerably more successful than the control group taught using the traditional methods in terms of academic success. Therefore, it is suggested that computer assisted language learning should be applied in language learning. Vll