engleski

TEACHERS' ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE INFLUENCE OF NEW MEDIA ON STUDENTS' WRITTEN EXPRESSION AT SCHOOL

Since today the question is freqently asked whether or not the writing in new media has an influence on students writing at school and on the literacy of young people in general, the authors of this article wanted to examine the attitudes of the teachers of the Croatian language about the influence of new media on the written expression of primary school students in terms of age, work experience and the county where they work. The aim of the research was to explore the attitudes of the teachers of the Croatian language regarding the influence of new media on the written expression of students that are related to the written expression of the pupils at school by taking into consideration the structure of the compositions, sentence connections, originality, richness of the vocabulary and style, grammatical correctness, ortographical correctness, clarity of the text structure and letter readability. Participants in the study were teachers of the Croatian language (N = 109) from the Varaždin County, Međimurje County, Krapina-Zagorje County and Zagreb County who teach in primary school from grades 5 to 8. The results of the research show that teachers' attitudes about the influence of new media on written expression of students are mostly negative and fairly uniform as well as that there is no difference in the attitudes of teachers towards the influence of new media in terms of the age of teachers, work experience and the county where they work.

writing in new media, written expression of young people, attitudes of the teachers of the Croatian language

nije evidentirano