Teachers’ Perceptions and Students’ Attitudes towards the Use of “Socrative Application” as Smart Students Response System in EFL Classroom Case Study: Master 2 EFL Students at Chadli Bendjedid University

Abstract

advocate modernization to the teaching /learning arena at Chadli Bendjedid University. It is very important for university teachers and students to be up to date and follow innovations in the educational field such as Smart Response System. Before implementing such system, the opinions of the education agents about the application must be fully understood. For this reason, this study investigates teachers’ perceptions and students’ attitudes towards the use of Socrative application as an SSRS model. The research was conducted with Master 2 students and EFL teachers who explored Socrative during a period of implementation of one month which enable them to be familiar with the application before extracting their opinions. The data was collected using mixed method for the sake of reinforcing the results of the study and, thus, confirming or disconfirming the put forward hypotheses. Accordingly, the research results revealed that teachers have a very positive attitude towards innovation in general and SSRS Socrative in particular. Teachers of English department at Chadli Bendjedid University demonstrate their willingness for the integration of technology in ordinary classrooms without the need for Language Laboratory. Likewise, the research findings showed that students of today, who are considered as digital native students, exhibit a positive attitude after using Socrative in five modules; hence, the study discloses the huge interest and zeal of students in learning via digitization. Furthermore, this research affords a set of recommendations and suggestions in order to pave the path to future integration of SSRS at Chadli Bendjedid University which will help teachers in their teaching process, especially in the phase of formative assessment; in addition to some practical suggestions of Socrative activities that can be used in classrooms to approaching the line between teacher-oriented teaching and students-centeredness. Eventually, further research proposals have been offered as this study will be the starting point for exploring Socrative application and its efficiency from an experimental perspective.