History has many examples of powerful companies that seem to be unbeatable. Then in a short time they become irrelevant due to new companies with new ideas. One of the factors in such transformation is technology. Never in history has technological change been so important in building and destroying companies.
We look at few examples of successful companies that fail to address the changing times and become disrupted. We also look at why technology emerges when it does and why some ideas can only be realised when certain conditions are met.
In this first lecture we set the tone for the course and define the themes that we will be looking at.
THE IMPACT OF ICT ON STUDENTS LANGUAGE SKILL IMPROVEMENTSamitha Dilshan
The impact of globalization, the spread of language and technological development have transformed our learning and language skill improvement. Recent years have shown an explosion of interest in using technology for language teaching and learning. A decade ago, the use of technology in the language classroom was of concern only to a small number of specialists. However, with the advent of information communication technology, the role of computers in language instruction has now become an important issue confronting large numbers of language teachers throughout the world. In early days Sri Lankans, did not use ICT based devices for language skill improvement. However, since more recent times, a gradual movement towards the use of ICT based devices for language development can be observed. There are more factors effecting for language skill development. Those are demographic factors, availability of ICT, family background, usage of ICT, Knowledge of ICT, living environment and legal system of the country. This research can be considered as an applied research under social behavior and it is important to find what factors influence on usage of ICT for student language skill improvement. According to the reliability analysis all the values of Cronbach’s Alpha were above 0.7 and according to, descriptive analyses of the study all the variable have been recorded with values above 3.4. Therefore, it indicates a relatively high mean value of the variables. Hypothesis for the research considers the positive relationship between Availability of ICT adoptions of students’ language skill improvement. Another two sub-hypothesis considers the positive relationship between all the variables namely Usage of ICT & Knowledge of ICT significant with adoption of language skill development with the support of ICT. The finding of this study can be applied to enhance the ICT on student skill improvement.
History has many examples of powerful companies that seem to be unbeatable. Then in a short time they become irrelevant due to new companies with new ideas. One of the factors in such transformation is technology. Never in history has technological change been so important in building and destroying companies.
We look at few examples of successful companies that fail to address the changing times and become disrupted. We also look at why technology emerges when it does and why some ideas can only be realised when certain conditions are met.
In this first lecture we set the tone for the course and define the themes that we will be looking at.
THE IMPACT OF ICT ON STUDENTS LANGUAGE SKILL IMPROVEMENTSamitha Dilshan
The impact of globalization, the spread of language and technological development have transformed our learning and language skill improvement. Recent years have shown an explosion of interest in using technology for language teaching and learning. A decade ago, the use of technology in the language classroom was of concern only to a small number of specialists. However, with the advent of information communication technology, the role of computers in language instruction has now become an important issue confronting large numbers of language teachers throughout the world. In early days Sri Lankans, did not use ICT based devices for language skill improvement. However, since more recent times, a gradual movement towards the use of ICT based devices for language development can be observed. There are more factors effecting for language skill development. Those are demographic factors, availability of ICT, family background, usage of ICT, Knowledge of ICT, living environment and legal system of the country. This research can be considered as an applied research under social behavior and it is important to find what factors influence on usage of ICT for student language skill improvement. According to the reliability analysis all the values of Cronbach’s Alpha were above 0.7 and according to, descriptive analyses of the study all the variable have been recorded with values above 3.4. Therefore, it indicates a relatively high mean value of the variables. Hypothesis for the research considers the positive relationship between Availability of ICT adoptions of students’ language skill improvement. Another two sub-hypothesis considers the positive relationship between all the variables namely Usage of ICT & Knowledge of ICT significant with adoption of language skill development with the support of ICT. The finding of this study can be applied to enhance the ICT on student skill improvement.