Face-to-face and mouth-to-ear modes.pdf

Two five-point Likert scale questionnaires were designed by the researchers themselves. The first questionnaire was designed to check Saudi female students' perceptions due to the participation in LML. The students' questionnaire consists of four domains: (1) students' perceptions on LML, (2) students' satisfaction for being indulged in such learning, (3) the difficulties that Saudi female students encountered and (4) the aids they received from others. The first domain includes 17 items, the second comprised six items, while the third has four items and the last domain includes five items. The questionnaire was sent to three ELT professors to referee its content validity. All their comments were considered. The teachers' questionnaire includes only 11 items and grouped in one domain that is to examine their perceptions toward LML mode. The participants of this part of the study comprised Saudi EFL female students studying for their bachelor’s degree in English language and Translation at Qassim University, College of Language and Translation via the LML mode. They enrolled in different levels from one into four. Their median age is 23 years. The researchers shared the link of the digital questionnaire with all the female students. The responses received were 101 and two of them were deleted because they were not complete. All the ethical considerations were ascertained, students were assured that they did not need to divulge their names or other personal information. It is important to briefly mention how the authors performed the research ethics during this research. Beginning from the top to the bottom, the researchers got a consent letter from the committee of ethical issues in the college of Language and Translation at Qassim University. That consent letter was submitted to the head of the English department to follow-up the procedures including scheduling a time for the researchers to meet with the student and teachers to explain them the aim of the study. Likely, both participants, (the 99 female students and 6 EFL teachers) were assured that their names are not required to be mentioned on the survey and were requested to select as precise alternatives as possible to assure the truthfulness of the study. Finally, the researchers promised them to share with them the finding of the study as soon as the study being completed. The qualitative data were collected from the six EFL teachers that form the total faculty of EFL at the university where the study was conducted. The researchers isolated themes that have been shown by prior research to be predominant issues in EFL classrooms from the teachers’ point of view. Out of these, eleven themes relevant to the Saudi EFL context were picked to form the questions of the semi-structured interviews. The last question, numbered twelve, was an open ended one which required teachers to list the positive and negative points of the LML practices in Saudi Arabia. Data from the eleven interview questions were quantified to establish leading trends. <b>Data analysis and </b><b>Results</b> After collecting the students' responses to the questionnaire over the period of a week, the data were analyzed using SPSS 23 version. The data were coded in which the alternative strongly agree was coded into 5 and strongly disagree into 1. Both descriptive and inferential analyses were adopted. <b> </b>