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Exploring Wiki Use as a Motivational Tool in an EFL Classroom

This paper investigates the relationship between wiki usage and student motivation in an English Preparatory Programme at Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul. Over ten weeks, a class of 16 elementary-level EFL learners engaged with a class wiki, leading to insights on preferred activities, interaction, and confidence enhancement. Findings indicate that students found the wiki motivating, while certain activities were less engaging. The study suggests improvements in wiki design to enhance effectiveness in language instruction and offers implications for teachers and further research.

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Exploring Wiki Use as a Motivational Tool in an EFL Classroom

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  1. WIKI IN ACTION:BEYOND CLASSROOM LIMITS BEYZA YILMAZ İstanbul,2010

  2. As thispaperexplorestherelationbetweenwikiandmotivationthen it is time towatch a video decribingwikis. • http://www.commoncraft.com/video-wikis-plain-english

  3. Overview This paper explored the results obtained from a class consisting of 16 elementarystudents who attended a tenweek coursein which a class wiki was used as an instructional tool in the EnglishPreparatory Programme at Bahçeşehir University.

  4. CLASS WIKI http://bahcesehira1y.pbworks.com Sections homework (editedbystudents) students’ ownpages (editedbystudents) vocabularyjournal linkscompiledbythestudentsandtheinstructor sectionsrequiringthestudentstocommunicatewithpeopleoutsidetheclass sectionsrequiringthestudentstoworktogether & reporttheirfindings errorcorrectionpages

  5. Purposeof thestudy • to find out the relationship between the particular use of a web tool, wiki, and the motivation levels of the students • to reflect upon the relationship between wiki use, and motivation of the students • to find out the activities the students enjoyed doing most and the ones they disliked for the improvisation of the researcher’s wiki design

  6. Research Questions • Does the particular use of wiki motivate EFL learners in the PreparatoryProgrammeatBahçeşehir University, İstanbul? • Which wiki activities do the learners find less motivating?  • Which wiki activities do the learners find more motivating? Which ones do they like most?  • What can be done in order to improve the use of wiki in order to make it more motivating/ appealing to EFL learners? • What activities need to be added or changed into the programme?

  7. Method Subjects • sixteenelementarylevelTurkish EFL learners in BahçeşehirUniversityFoundationProgramme, • gender of thesubjects (11 M, 5 F) • ages of thesubjects (18-29) Settings • BU EPP • extraquotaschedule

  8. Data CollectionProcedures

  9. ideasof EFL studentsabouttheparticularwikiuse as a motivatingtool findingsparalleltothehyphothesis activitiesfoundmotivatingbythesubjects findingsparalleltothehyphothesistosomeextent activitiesfoundlessmotivatingbythesubjects storytelling activitiessuggestedbythesubjects: online exercisesandquizzes animations chatoption invitingotherpeopletowritesentences in thevocabularyjournalsection keeping a learningdiary essaywritingactivities video tutorials Results

  10. CONCLUSION • Theresponsesfromthesurveyandtheinterviewssupportedtheresearcher’smainhyphothesisclaimingthatstudentsfindtheresearcher’sparticularuse of wikimotivating. • Theyalsorevealedthreeaspects of wiki,interaction, enhancement of self confidenceandhaving a realaudiencemotivatedthesubjects. • Thefindingsalsopointedoutsomedeficiencies in theresearcher’sparticularwikiuse.

  11. ACTION TO BE TAKEN Inthelight of thestudents’ overallresponsestothequestionnaireandtheinterviews,theresearcherdecidedtoimprovise her classwikiusetakingthefactorsemergedfromthisstudywhicharetheimportance of interactioneitherwrittenorspoken, realisticandrelevanttasks,intoaccount.

  12. IMPLICATIONS Implicationsforteachers • newinsights on thistopic • furtheractionresearch on wikiandmotivation • sometipsaboutwikidesign • a clearerunderstanding of howwikismightbest be used in languageinstructiontoscaffoldlanguagelearningafterneedsanalyses Implicationsforfurtherresearch • conducting a research on differentuses of wikiespecially on theonesrequiringstudentstousemicrophonesandwebcams • creating/adaptingnewPLNsbasedupontheresults of thisstudyandtestingwhethertheyincreasemotivationlevels of EFL learnersor not • conductingtheresearch on learnershavingdifferentproficiencylevels

  13. Screenshots of the class wiki Vocabulary journalsection

  14. StudentsGivingAdviceto a TeacherfromBrazil

  15. A video andsomecommentsunderneath

  16. How do youthinkwiki can be used in yourowncontext?

  17. CONTACT INFORMATION e-mail beyzayilmaz@gmail.com beyza.yilmaz@bahcesehir.edu.tr twitter @beyza blog http://beyzasfirstblog.blogpot.com

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