Aula inteligente o aula tradicional en el aprendizaje de L2: Un estudio experimental

Abstract

This is an experimental study in the fields of linguistics and didactics, as applied to L2 English language learning, in the Intelligent Class and in the Traditional Class. Its main objective is to find out the higher or lower incidence that electronic texts and textbooks may have in language learning/acquisition.This study arose from the need to improve creative language learning so that the students can learn how to learn, learn how to act, learn how to be and learn how to work in groups.This work was begun in March and finished in July. The sample consisted of a control group and an experimental group with 15 university students of English as L2 each. The control group was trained in a three-hour Traditional Class. The experimental group was developed in a three-hour Intelligent Class: one hour in the computer lab and two hours in the workshop. The teacher’s duty was to teach and make the students work communicatively in the control group; and to guide the students in their learning and to assess the group weekly in the Experimental one. Data were taken from Pretests and Postests applied at the beginning and at the end of the semester, whose results were submitted to statistical tests.