Journal Articles - Educational and Pedagogy - 2021

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    Microsoft Teams in the context of freshmen ELF learning
    ( 2021)
    Trần Thị Thanh Mai
    The aim of this research paper is to determine how Microsoft teams worked when teaching the first-year English at Van Lang University through the COVID-19 pandemic. Microsoft Teams is a new application used by the university, and this paper reports on the experience of using it for other colleagues to critique and improve on. The sample for this study consisted of eighty freshmen selected from four classes. A set of questionnaires with fifteen Likert-scale items together with interviews served as instruments for data collection. The findings demonstrated that using Microsoft Teams for teaching and learning was an effective way to keep learning activities going on. In general, despite some inconveniences with the technological problems, the students were eager to a new means of learning but did not make good use of this collaboration tool in their learning. Also, the research paper results reveal that the participants possessed positive attitudes towards the benefits of using Microsoft Teams in online learning. In contrast, they expressed an unfavorable perspective on the drawbacks of using this tool respectively.
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    Non-English Majored Freshmen’s Perspectives on Benefits and Challenges of Using E-Learning: a Study at Van Lang University
    ( 2021)
    E-learning has been being used as a method of education around the globe.In the context of Vietnam, e-learning has been adopted during the COVID-19 pandemic; it, therefore, is still a new concept, especially among students. The study aimed to investigate students’ perception of the benefits and challenges of using e-learning. The study was conducted at Van Lang University with the participation of 152 first-year students from different faculties. The quantitative research approach was employed in the study. The quantitative data collected from the questionnaire were processed by SPSS (19.0) The findings showed that several participants valued the advantages of e-learning. Particularly, students could study at their preferred time and place. It was easy for them to get access to the online materials, so they could get deeper understanding of the lessons. What is more, e-learning allowed students to study at their own pace. They, therefore, could review the lessons whenever they wanted so as to attain the objectives of each lesson. However, the study also found that students encountered some significant issues including low-speed connectivity to the Internet, technical problems, and loss of face-to-face interactions. The most interesting finding of the current study was that almost all participants could afford to purchase a computer, which was considered the major problem for the participants in previous studies.