The Influence of Implementing the Personalized Learning Approach on Improving EFL learners Engagement

Abstract

21st century education focuses on upgrading the quality of the teaching-learning process, through introducing teaching approaches that improve learners’ enthusiasm and engagement towards their learning. Therefore, the present study is an attempt to investigate the influence of implementing the personalized learning approach on enhancing EFL learners’ engagement towards their learning process. Moreover, it sheds light on the effectiveness of embracing this approach within the teaching - learning process for the purpose of providing learners with an engaging and lifelong learning experience. Hence, to achieve the objectives, one means of data collection tools was used. It consists of a teachers’ questionnaire which has been administrated to middle school EFL teachers to investigate their varied point of views regarding the integration of the personalized learning approach as a means to foster their learners ‘engagement. Thus, the findings revealed that the implementation of the personalized learning approach has a significant influence on the learners’ engagement. In the sense that, it accounts for learners’ diversity by aligning the learning process in a way that fosters the learners’ sense of belonging and engagement towards their learning experience.