1Higher Studies Department, University of Babylon, College of Basic Education. Babylon, Iraq
*Corresponding author: Ibaa'ddeen Hussam Abbas Higher Studies Department, University of Babylon, College of Basic Education. Babylon, Iraq; E-mail: Ibaahussam44@gmail.com
Online published on 1 November, 2018.
Clicker's technology has been achieving a tremendous success all around the world in teaching by utilizing them as a classroom innovation. The presented study aims at investigating the psychological effects of clickers on English language students in an Iraqi setting. The study uses quantitative research method. The samples of the study were randomly selected from the fourth preparatory school students. The study adopted a pre-test treatment-post-test design and a satisfaction survey. The first hypothesis was accepted and was concluded that clicker's technology classroom was better than the traditional teaching in both the overall achievement and vocabulary items acquisition. The study also concluded that the utilization of the Clickers technology has had a positive psychological effect on the learning experience of the students and that they would like for the implementation of the device to continue. Future studies could very well expand and support the findings of this study or yield different results.
Clickers Technology, Psychological, Students