scholarly journals Exploring the effective use of mobile devices by previously disadvantaged English language student educators the Constructivist way

Per Linguam ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
M Sylvia Lediga ◽  
Lucia Junia Ngoepe
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
English Language ◽  
Effective Use

scholarly journals Self-efficacy of Art Undergraduates in Mobile-assisted English Learning

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
BI SHANSHAN
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Mobile Learning ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
English Language ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
English Learning ◽  
Art Students ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Teachers And Students

This research adopts the questionnaire survey method and selects 208 freshmen from the Guangxi Arts University as the research objects. The research studies the English self-efficacy and mobile learning situation of art college students and understands students’ views on using mobile devices/platform to assist in their learning of the English language. Results found that all students have mobile phones which allow teachers and students to use them for English learning. Besides, most art college students have a low sense of English self-efficacy, including low self-confidence, low enthusiasm in English learning, and average level of solving English learning difficulties. In addition, more than half of the students agree with the use of mobile devices/platforms to assist in English learning. Only a small number of people oppose it. This finding lays a preliminary foundation for later empirical research on using mobile learning to cultivate the English self-efficacy of art students.

scholarly journals A look at the advanced learners' use of mobile devices for English language study: Insights from interview data

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 18
Author(s):  
Mariusz Kruk
Keyword(s):  
Learning Styles ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
English Language ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Advanced Learners ◽  
Personal Learning ◽  
Foreign Language Learners ◽  
The One

<p>The paper discusses the results of a study which explored advanced learners of English engagement with their mobile devices to develop learning experiences that meet their needs and goals as foreign language learners. The data were collected from 20 students by means of a semi-structured interview. The gathered data were subjected to qualitative and quantitative analysis. The results of the study demonstrated that, on the one hand, some subjects manifested heightened awareness relating to the advantageous role of mobile devices in their learning endeavors, their ability to reach for suitable tools and retrieve necessary information so as to achieve their goals, meet their needs and adjust their learning of English to their personal learning styles, and on the other, a rather intuitive and/or ad hoc use of their mobile devices in the classroom.</p>

scholarly journals The Effective use of Authentic Materials in the English Language Classrooms

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Parupalli Srinivas Rao
Keyword(s):  
Educational System ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Teaching Profession ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Authentic Materials ◽  
English Classrooms ◽  
Language Classrooms ◽  
Effective Use ◽  
English Language Classrooms

Due to the technological innovations, the twenty-first century has witnessed tremendous changes in all walks of life. The new technology abetted the extant educational system and it gifted the contemporary educational system with a newfangled drift. As a result, there have been several innovations in the field of education and English has no exception. The concept of teaching English has drastically changed and the present generation of teachers as well as the learners depend more on the latest technology that brings a greater change in teaching and learning. In the modern world, the teachers of English have been using a variety of teaching materials in order to satisfy the needs and interests of the learners. In this process, they also go for the authentic materials in addition to the prescribed textbooks with an aim to improve the standards of the learners and to develop their learners’ language skills enormously in the regular English classrooms. According to Peacock (1997), “Authentic materials are more motivating for students, even lower level students, than artificial materials”. Furthermore, Briton (1991 cited in Qura, 2001) states, “Authentic materials relate more closely to learners’ need, for they build a connection between the language classroom and the outside world. The teachers have to use all the available authentic materials such as newspapers, magazines, story books, movies, radio, TV ads, songs, label products, bus or train timetables, realia like phones and dolls so that the learners show more interest towards their leaning. As authentic materials play a vital role in promoting the learners’ learning and creates interests among learners to learn the English language in a natural way with proper motivation, the teachers of English should use these authentic materials in their day-to-day teaching profession. The present paper brings to light to the effective use of authentic materials by the teachers in the English language classrooms. For this purpose, this paper initially discusses the advantages of authentic materials in the field of education. Then this paper brings out the importance of the authentic materials that are used in the English language classrooms. Later, this paper emphasizes primarily on the effective use of the authentic materials and how they assist the teachers in their teaching and also how they help the learners to learn English in a better and easier way. Finally, this paper gives some expedient hints both to the teachers and the learners of English to how improve their teaching and learning skills colossally using the authentic materials in the English classrooms.

The Usability of Mobile Devices in Distance Learning

2020 ◽  
pp. 262-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fırat Sarsar ◽  
Tarık Kişla ◽  
Melih Karasu ◽  
Yüksel Deniz Arıkan ◽  
Murat Kılıç
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environments ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Communication Techniques ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Effective Use

Thanks to technological developments, distance education helped new techniques and strategies to emerge in the instruction field. However, these developments may cause problems about integration of the interaction between students and instructors. Communication is seen as one of the biggest problems. Instructors' online communications and their attitudes towards this process affect quality of teaching and learning processes. Other factors affecting this process are learning environment and its effective use. This study is designed to incorporate a mixed method with the aim of reflecting instructors' experiences about different communication techniques and learning environments. In scope of this research, the researchers planned a four-week process using the communication that the researchers have been establishing with Ege University Faculty of Education's instructors. The researchers will use different mobile devices and feedback methods for the process.

Using wordless books to support clinical consultations

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 260-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheila Hollins ◽  
Barry Carpenter ◽  
Elspeth Bradley ◽  
Jo Egerton
Keyword(s):  
Visual Information ◽  
Word Processing ◽  
English Language ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Illustrative Case ◽  
Service Access ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Case Examples ◽  
Practice Review ◽  
Effective Use

Purpose Based on a literature and practice review, the purpose of this paper is to examine the theoretical and clinical basis for using wordless books with patients who have intellectual disabilities (ID) and/or autism. Design/methodology/approach A literature review identified seminal peer-reviewed English language articles relating to the neuroscience of information and emotion processing for adults with ID and/or autism. In addition to published examples, illustrative case examples were contributed by clinicians regularly using wordless books. Findings Many people, including those with ID, selectively attend to visual information. Minimising the cognitive load by using wordless pictorial narrative reduces anxiety, and empowers the patient. Clinicians using such resources describe positive clinical outcomes. Only the Beyond Words wordless books have been identified in published clinical trials. Research limitations/implications Although existing evidence suggests a strong positive impact, further research into the use of wordless books for people with ID is needed. Practical implications Wordless books are reported to help develop staff skills and empathy for supporting adults with ID. The books facilitate some legally required reasonable adjustments to increase service access. Staff training is needed for effective use of wordless books. Originality/value Wordless books specifically designed with and for adults with word processing difficulties, ID and/or autism to enhance health literacy and explore their own narratives and emotional responses around health experiences and personal traumas are a unique approach. This paper may also offer the first exploration of their neuropsychological underpinnings.

The English Language and Afro Saxons: A Systemic Study of the Communicative Qualities of a Selection of African Prose Passages

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 463
Author(s):  
Bassey Ufot ◽  
Idara E. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
First Language ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Systemic Functional Grammar ◽  
Global Status ◽  
Discourse Strategies ◽  
African Writers ◽  
Effective Use ◽  
Linguistic Phenomenon ◽  
Selection Of

This paper studies the discourse strategies and communicative potential of the English language in a selection of Afro Saxon prose passages. The term ‘Afro Saxons’ was first coined by Kenyan scholar, Ali Mazrui, in 1975, by analogy with ‘Anglo Saxons’, to refer to the linguistic phenomenon in which the English language is increasingly becoming the ‘first language’ functionally of a great many black and African people. This study, therefore, enlarges upon this concept and undertakes to elaborate on the ways in which the communicative and expressive possibilities of English are exemplified in a selection of some of the most lyrical and dramatic prose extracts by some African writers. Mounted upon the theoretical platforms of Mazrui, and Halliday’s systemic functional grammar (SFG) with its contextual parameters of the ideational (field), interpersonal (tenor) and textual (mode) metafunctions, the research appraises the attitudes to the increasing global status of English. Then employing two Anglo Saxon prose passages as the control, it investigates in some detail the organic configurations of discourse such as transitivity, mood, thematic structure, cohesion and coherence in passages from Armah, Achebe and Soyinka, and concludes that, based on the effective use of the figurative and expressive metafunctions of the language, these authors may indeed be referred to as Afro Saxons.

Development of English Language Based Cognitive Rehabilitation Using Mobile Devices

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seongsoo Cho ◽  
◽  
Jongsup Lee ◽  
Bonghwa Hong ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Cognitive Rehabilitation ◽  
English Language

scholarly journals Design Guidelines for Creating Mobile Language Learning Applications

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fazeena Jamaldeen ◽  
Priyantha Hewagamage ◽  
Yamaya Ekanayaka
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Mobile Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Design Guidelines ◽  
English Language Learning ◽  
User Groups ◽  
Primary Medium

<p class="0abstract">Mobile devices have proven to be an appropriate tool which expands the horizons of learning beyond the classroom through means of flexibility and portability. Throughout this study, the authors have worked with a set of design guidelines which were derived from the literature. The artifact developed considering these design guidelines has been evaluated among various user groups for better understanding of m-learning as a tool to support English Language Learning. Findings of these evaluations have been used to improve the design guidelines.  The authors also identify the effectiveness of mobile learning as a supporting medium of learning and as a primary medium of learning among different learner groups, which is another outcome of this study. </p>

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