Student Performance, Assessment and Language Skills Development in a Wikis Environment

Abstract

Communication technologies are used in every field of life in today’s globalizing world and using them in foreign language teaching has become a requirement rather than a choice. Enabling learners who use information technology resources often in their daily lives to benefit from these tools while studying a foreign language can improve their learning and motivation to learn. Learning media is a tool to deliver learning material from the teacher to students. Due to the advancement of web 2.0, there are numerous learning media that has many contributions to the teaching and learning process in the classroom, including wikis, blogs, or video blogging etc. There continue to be emphasize on how wikis can encourage the students for learning a language and keep them motivated. Although the wiki was introduced more than ten years ago, its use is relatively new in academia. Therefore, this research investigates and aggregate the available literature regardingthe experience of using wikis for foreign language learning. In conclusion, we aim to study various methods used for teaching a foreign language using wikis content. We focus on the role of wikis in foreign language learning out of classroom settings or impacts of motivation levels. This article advocates the use of wiki as a language learning tool, as wikis enable students to collaborate in the language learning process by allowing themto post and edit messages. Also, we think that wikibased language learning can have a positive effect on learners.