Development and Evaluation of a Web-Based College English Outside Reading System for Efl Freshmen

Development and Evaluation of a Web-based College English Outside Reading System for EFL Freshmen

Ching-Ying Pan
Associate Professor of Institute of Education, Tzu Chi University
No. 701, Sec. 3, Zhoungyang Rd., Hualien, 97004, Taiwan [e-mail] 011-886-3-856-5301 ext. 2930

Pei-Ching Huang
English teacher, Taipei County Hai-San High School
215, Han-San East Rd., Ban Chiau City, Taipei County, Taiwan
[e-mail]
011-886-2-2951-7475

About the authors

Dr. Ching-Ying Pan is an Associate Professor in the Institute of Education, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan. Dr. Pan focuses her study on the field of English learning and instruction.

Pei-Ching Huang is a graduate of the Institute of Education, Tzu Chi University. She is an English teacher at Hai-San Junior High School, Ban Chiau City, Taipei County, Taiwan.
Development and Evaluation of a Web-based College English Outside Reading System for EFL Freshmen

ABSTRACT

The main purpose of this study was to design a web-based English outside reading learning system for college students to study English reading outside the classroom by themselves. In addition to the main purpose, we explored the web-based learning system’s effects on students by comparing it with the reading of traditional printed materials. This web-based learning system included nine units whose topics were the life stories of nine contemporary celebrities. This study adopted the pretest-posttest nonequivalent group design. Control group students studied English outside reading by studying paper materials on their own. Experimental group students studied the same materials in an asynchronous web-based learning system. The results of this research found that the group using the web-based learning system had significantly better English reading comprehension, higher English learning motivation, and greater learner satisfaction. Furthermore, most of the web-based learning students held very

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