ENGLISH OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM IN THE AGE OF TECHNOLOGY: A CONCURRENT TRIANGULATION MIXED METHOD STUDY

The hegemony of technology and its dominance over education caused the necessity to\rmake changes in the philosophy of language teaching. With the introduction of technology and\rextensive use of distance education thanks to pandemic, this philosophy change has increased\rthe importance of students' out-of-class language learning activities. Therefore, in this mixed\rmethod research, which is conducted at an English Preparatory department of a state university\rsituated in Turkey, it is aimed to investigate students’ resources and strategies that they use for\rEnglish outside the class (EOC) activities. For this purpose, a 34-question five-point Likert\rtype scale was conducted to 242 students, and both focus group interviews with seven students\rand individual semi-structured interviews with five students were conducted in order to obtain\rthe EOC strategies and sources. According to the results, it is revealed that the students mostly\remploy EOC activities for their listening skill, and least for speaking skill, and using EOC\ractivities has a significant relationship with academic achievement, gender, and section. Also,\rstudents started to use many different technological social media websites, online applications,\rand techniques. As a result, with the changing educational philosophy and spending time more\routside the school, all stakeholders should be aware of the massive transformation in language\reducation and plan their instruction accordingly.