Title: Designing a blended learning environment to enhance low achieving students' Tamil language learning

Authors: Vemalathevey Manikiam

Addresses: Ministry of Education, Unit #05-603, Block 953 Jurong West Street 91, 64095, Singapore

Abstract: Although Singapore's bilingualism policy encourages students to be bilingual in both English language (EL) and mother tongue language (MTL), due to the EL being widely used across nations, there are notable changes in the usage of MTL among the younger Singaporeans. This deterioration of MTL proficiency among the low-achieving students (LAS) students enrolled in the normal technical (NT) stream in Singapore is evidentiary. Perhaps, language learning may be transformed into a more exciting and engaging approach for the LAS with the help of ICT and the integration of blended learning. The goal of this study was to design a BLE for LAS to help them improve their Tamil language proficiency. In this study, 11 secondary level LAS who attend a specialised school for normal technical students will assess their Tamil Language learning skills through educational design research.

Keywords: low-achieving students; LAS; conversational framework; blended learning; BL; mother tongue language; MTL.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSMILE.2023.131522

International Journal of Social Media and Interactive Learning Environments, 2023 Vol.7 No.1, pp.56 - 69

Received: 07 Sep 2021
Accepted: 06 Dec 2021
Published online: 15 Jun 2023 *

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