4.6.1 Questionnaire Design

In order to capture the beliefs of a wider group of teachers, a mail-out, open-ended questionnaire was used. The sampling for the questionnaire targeted a wide geographic range including all ten school districts in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador as well as a range in grades, programs and small versus large schools. The instrument (see Appendix O) included a consent form and a two-page questionnaire with eight, open-ended questions. The questions were designed to elicit responses that would reveal underlying beliefs. No attempt was made to ask explicit questions such as "What are your beliefs about the value of the Internet as a teaching and learning environment?". Instead, the aim was to provide teachers with an opportunity to provide information on or to "discuss", in general, issues related to the following:

• their approach to teaching with and without the Internet;
• the strategies needed by teachers and students for Internet use;
• the impact of the Internet on their teaching;
• their experiences in using the Internet;
• the types of activities in which they engage when using the Internet;
• why they do or do not use the Internet.

The questionnaire was designed to assist teachers in revealing implicitly their personal theories about the teaching of FSFL in online learning environments. The following section of this chapter outlines the procedures of the questionnaire.

A program designed for non-French-speaking individuals in which French is the language of instruction in the classroom for all or some of the subject areas.