Volume: 6 Issue: 2 Year: 2009 A comparative study on the use of information technologies in the development of students’ ability to comprehend what they listen to and watch Nesrin Özdener* Sezin Eşfer** Abstract The purpose of this study is to determine the effects of a computer-aided method called ELVES and video-aided instruction on the development of young students’ ability to comprehend what they listen to and watch. Using the video-aided instructions and computer- aided ELVES method, it also analyses the likelihood of the video-aided instruction method being used with different techniques, and compares the instructional methods involved with levels of student success of three different experimental groups. An analysis of the students’ post-test results shows a considerable difference in favour of the computer-aided ELVES method for achieving the target behaviours. Keywords: Information technologies; video-aided instruction; ability to comprehend what is listened or watched; language teaching; ELVES method. ________________________ *Marmara University, Ataturk Faculty of Education, Department of Computer and Instructional Technologies, nozdener@marmara.edu.tr **Marmara University, Institute of Education, sesfer@gmail.com CORE Metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk