Understanding Digital Divide in English Language Classrooms: A Case Study on Its Causes, Effects, and Solutions

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2023

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Department of Modern Languages
In DML, post prep students are offered higher level academic English to help further their education and non-prep students are given basic English courses depending on their needs. In the departments students are exposed to various teaching learning methods and techniques and offline and online facilities to help develop learning strategies, analysing, questioning, synthesising, internalising, applying and evaluating the skills and knowledge to utilize them throughout their lives.

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This chapter aims to help understand digital divide in English language classrooms by focusing on its causes, effects, and solutions. The present study was designed as a case study. Two Turkish EFL teachers participated in the study. The data were collected through a semi-structured interview and analyzed through content analysis. The findings of the present study have indicated that, according to the participants, there were two causes of digital divide in English language classrooms, digital divide could affect both EFL students and teachers generally negatively, and it could be handled with individual and social solutions. The findings of the present study were discussed. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

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Springer Briefs in Education

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25006-4_2
 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14411/4164

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