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%T Investigating the Effectiveness of an Online Course in English Language Teaching Program in a Rural Iranian Context
%A Mehdi Moqadam Tabrizi
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%D 2018
%X Technological developments have attracted the attention of educational stakeholders around the globe and tempted them to incorporate these developments into their decisions in training students. Rural areas, on the other hand, have suffered from deprivation and unavailability of educationally relevant instruments and gadgets in education in general and foreign language teaching in particular. Educational centers, therefore, have suffered a lot and students bore the consequence of this deprivation and a lack of basic facilities which is directly because of lack of resources, time restriction and inequalities of budgeting, and even because of human resources. However, thanks to the development of online educational gadgets and related technology the situation has improved. The present study intends to evaluate the effectiveness of implementing the principles of online distance education in foreign language teaching and learning in a rural Iranian EFL context. In so doing, both concurrent and non-concurrent forms of online distance teaching in thirteen schools from rural areas of Gilan, Iran were put into practice. The study, through using a quantitative survey, showed that rural areas` students had more satisfaction in distance online teaching regarding their achievement and having more equal opportunities
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%U http://dergipark.org.tr/later/issue/41915/467535