RT Journal Article
T1 A digital tool designed to support secondary education teachers’ professional development and to develop students’ oral language competence
A1 Gràcia Garcia, Marta
A1 Alvarado Izquierdo, Jesús María
A1 Vega Llobera, Fàtima
A1 Jarque, Maria Josep
A1 Castillo Mardones, Pamela
A1 Adam Alcocer, Ana Luisa
AB Digital tools can guide and support teachers in professional development programmes. The aim of this study was four-fold: (1) to explore changes introduced in classroom methodology by secondary school teachers during their participation in a professional development programme, using the digital tool EVALOE-DSS, based on conversational methodology; (2) to analyse the impact of introducing conversational methodology in the development of students’ oral competence; (3) to determine the relation between students’ self-perception of oral competence and self-perceived emotional competence; and (4) to find out the teachers’ opinion about  their experience in the programme. The instruments used were the digital tool EVALOE-DSS, the Test of Self-Perceived Oral Competence, the Self-Report of Emotional Intelligence, the Trait Meta-Mood Scale, and a satisfaction questionnaire. The study was developed in four phases: initial intensive training, intervention using the digital tool for four months, students’ assessments and teachers’ evaluations. The results of teachers’ self-assessments using the EVALOE-DSS showed that their self-assessment of classes significantly improved throughout their participation in the programme. In addition, students whose teachers participated in the programme were self-perceived as more competent at oral language, and this had a positive influence on their self-perception of emotional competence. Finally, teachers were positive about their participation in the training process using the EVALOE-DSS. In conclusion, this study seems to suggest that a professional development programme using a Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) tool could provide an important strategy for increasing teachers’ oral language teaching quality and improving student learning.
PB Taylor & Francis
SN 1744-3210
YR 2023
FD 2023-04
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/123114
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/123114
LA eng
NO Marta Gràcia, Jesús M. Alvarado, Fàtima Vega, Maria Josep Jarque, Pamela Castillo & Ana Luisa Adam-Alcocer (2025) A digital tool designed to support secondary education teachers’ professional development and to develop students’ oral language competence, Computer Assisted Language Learning, 38:3, 426-452, DOI: 10.1080/09588221.2023.2197963
NO Received 19 Jul 2022, Accepted 28 Mar 2023, Published online: 17 Apr 2023
NO Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España)
DS Docta Complutense
RD 18 mar 2026