Technologies in English Online Learning for Vendors

Abstract

The purposes of the present investigation were: 1) to scrutinize whether, after us-ing the English for Vendors (EV hereafter) program, the vendors improve their language learning achievement; and 2) to explore vendors’ attitudes toward learn-ing through the EV program. There were twenty participants involved in this in-vestigation. The main research instruments were EV program and a questionnaire of vendors’ attitudes toward EV program. After completing the EV program, the participants were asked to answer the questionnaire about their attitudes toward learning through the EV program. The results of the present investigation re-vealed that the participants’ performance scores between the pretest and the post-test were statistically and significantly different at p<.00. Consequently, the EV program is shown to have improved the vendors’ performance in their communi-cative competence. According to their attitudes toward learning through the EV program, the results obtained from the questionnaire showed that the vendors be-lieved the EV program was appropriate (