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TOJET: The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology – October 2012, volume 11 Issue 4 Prensky, M. (2001). Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants Part 1. On the Horizon.9(5).Pp: 1 – 6. Ras, E. &Rech, J. (2009).Using Wikis to support the Net Generation in improving knowledge acquisition in capstone projects. The Journal of Systems and Software. 82. Pp: 553–562 Székely, L. & Nagy, Á. (2011). Online youth work and eYouth — A guide to the world of the digital natives. Children and Youth Services Review. 33. Pp: 2186–2197. Tilfarlioglu, F. Y. (2011). An International Dimension Of The Student’s Attitudes Towards The Use Of English In Web 2.0 Technology. TOJET: The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology – July 2011, 10(3), 63 – 68. Valtonen, T., Dillon, P., Hacklin, S. &Vaisanen. P. (2010).Net generation at social software: Challenging assumptions, clarifying relationships and raising implications for learning. International Journal of Educational Research. 49. Pp: 210–219 Wu, S., Wang, S., Liu, E. Z., Hu, D. & Hwang, W. (2012).The Influences Of Social Self-Efficacy On Social Trust And Social Capital – A Case Study Of Facebook. TOJET: The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology – April 2012, 11 (2), 246 – 254 Copyright © The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology 147
TOJET: The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology – October 2012, volume 11 Issue 4 EXPLORING COLLEGE STUDENTS’ ATTITUDES AND SELF-EFFICACY OF MOBILE LEARNING Assoc. Prof. Dr. Shih-hsien Yang National Formosa University (Department of Applied Foreign Languages), No. 64 Wen-Hua Rd. HuWei Jen, YunLin, Taiwan shiyang@nfu.edu.tw ABSTRACT Previous studies have indicated that computers and the internet play very important roles in students’ acceptance and use of new information technology. In recent years, with the rapid development of mobile technology, mobile learning (m-learning) has becoming another popular topic. However, little is known about the students’ attitudes and self-efficacy with the use of a mobile device in language learning. The purpose of this study was to investigate the attitudes and self-efficacy of using mobile learning devices for college students in a language class by employing task-based instruction. The sample group of the study comprised 58 second-year students at a technical university in central Taiwan who used mobile devices for m-learning in an English class to complete assigned tasks under the guidance of the instructor. Results showed that most students agreed that their motivation for English learning was enhanced and most of them had positive attitudes towards m-learning. Implications for future research and the practice of m-learning are discussed. Keywords: computer self-efficacy, m-learning, language learning, task-based approach INTRODUCTION The growth of mobile technologies, like mobile phones, smart phones, personal digital assistants (PDA), and Tablet PCs have attracted the attention of the educators and researchers (Mcconatha, Praul & Lynch, 2008; Motiwalla, 2007; Thornton & Houser, 2002; Patten, Sa´nchez & Tangney, 2006) to consider its pedagogical implications. Seppala and Alamaki (2003) pointed out that the instruction via mobile devices would play an important role in the educational realm, given that 98% of the university students possessed cell phones. The educational use of the mobile devices was referred to as mobile learning (m-learning) with the focus on facilitating and extending the reach of the teaching and learning, such as the knowledge construction, the information collection and exchange, the collaborative learning (Hine, Rentoul, & Specht, 2004), independent learning (Bull & Reid, 2004) and lifelong learning (Attewell & Savill-Smith, 2004). Huang, Jeng, and Huang (2009), for example, adopted a mobile blogging system as a means for generating collaboratively interactive and learning opportunities for geographically dispersed persons and groups. Vavoula et al. (2009) used mobile phones for inquiry-based learning to allow learners to gather information during school visits to museums. Mobile learning has been acknowledged as a useful approach in language skills training, particularly for English as Foreign Language (EFL) students (e.g., Chen & Huang, 2010; Chang, Chen, & Hsu, 2011; Hwang & Chang, 2011; Lee, 2009; Sandberg, Maris, & Geus, 2011). Due to the spontaneous, informal, contextual, portable, ubiquitous, pervasive, and personal features of the mobile learning, students were provided with more access and greater exposure to abundant authentic learning contexts (O’Malley et al, 2003). The authentic learning contexts via mobile learning in turn have positive effects on second language acquisition (Gulati, 2008; Judd, Kennedy, & Cropper, 2010; Kreijins, Kirschner, & Jochems, 2003; Mompean, 2010). The authentic learning contexts help students bridge the gap between formal and informal learning experiences (Kolb, 2006; Wagner &Wilson, 2005). In other words, the authentic tasks in real word situations allow students to connect the contents of the textbooks with real world materials to achieve better comprehension and learning outcomes (Kolb, 2006). Wagner and Wilson (2005) also highlighted that students can better transfer the acquired language skills into the real life situations if they have developed the language skills in authentic contexts. In addition, students demonstrated high learning motivation when they became engaged in the authentic learning tasks. Related empirical studies have manifested the effectiveness of mobile learning upon the language teaching and learning. For example, Attewell (2005) designed a mobile learning project to motivate students to learn a foreign language. She found that 82% of the students improved their reading comprehension and spelling skills via mobile learning, and 62% of the students expressed their continual use of mobile devices to learn the language. Basoglu and Akdemir (2010) recruited 60 university students to examine the effectiveness of the mobile devices and conventional flashcards upon English vocabulary learning. The findings showed that students displayed better academic performance in the learning vocabulary and had positive attitudes toward learning English vocabulary via mobile learning. Many factors may negatively influence the effectiveness of mobile learning upon language instruction which result in a lower percentage of the students’ learning participation in mobile learning (Gulati, 2008; Isman & Copyright © The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology 148
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