ATTITUDES OF STUDENTS TOWARDS LEARNING OBJECTS IN WEB-BASED LANGUAGE LEARNING

Language education is important in the rapidly changing world. Every year much effort has
spent on preparing teaching materials for language education. Since positive attitudes of
learners towards a teaching material enhance the effectiveness of that material, it is
important to determine the attitudes of learners towards the material used. Learning
objects (LOs) are a new type of material on which many studies have been conducted in
recent years. The aim of this study is to determine the attitudes of students towards LOs in
web-based language learning. To this end, the study was conducted in English I Course at
the Department of Computer Programming in Kırıkkale University in 2010-2011 Fall
Semester. Seventy LOs appropriate for six-week long lecture program were integrated into
the Learning Management System (LMS) of Kırıkkale University. The study group consisted
of 38 students. After the six weeks long implementation period of the study, an attitude
scale was administered to the students. The findings indicated that students in web based
language education have positive attitudes towards LOs.