The language classroom and digital environment: social representations and the prevalent practices among university students

Nowadays the importance of educational technology and digital environment is an undeniable fact. The important point is to be aware of various training dimensions of the educational technology and to introduce them to the teachers and students. The number of researches about the same subject clarifies the importance of educational Technology. First of all, we should inform this importance to the teachers and students and prepare their minds to use these technologies in training and learning processes. Therefore, we should realize social representations, level of knowledge and their interest or in using such a technology. In this research, we are going to focus on the students’ social representations about these technologies and how effective could they be on the students' autonomy. We are going to indicate that the students' social representations have a huge influence on their prevalent practices of these technologies and also have a proximate influence on the students' autonomy in their learning process. Our Sample Rate is some of the students of foreign languages in the Faculty of Languages and foreign literature, university of Teheran. Our research device was the interview and, according to quantitative approach, we parsed the response. At the end, we are going to provide a table of the usages of the training technologies that the students referred. Our aim is to find out the strengths and weaknesses of the digital environment to present a pattern to help future researches.