Exploration Study on Group Work with Interactive Whiteboard and Computer Feedback System for Primary Students

Abstract

This paper presents a case study of one teacher and 28 first-grade primary students utilizing the interactive whiteboard (IWB) and computer feedback system (CFS) to improve the group works in their language learning activities. The classroom observation and a content analysis method were conducted for investigating the teaching and learning interactions, and total 72 instructional events were considered to be the data in the coding procedure. The results indicated that 44.44% of instructional events embraced students’ learning interest, active participation, and peer cooperation behaviors, which reveal the students were very engaged in the cooperative group works. Consequently, the IWB plus CFS improved the teaching and learning interactions, especially on whole-class discussion and cooperative group work, in which student’s concept was constructed by those efficient dialogic interactions among teacher and students.