Principles of Language Learning and Teaching

Mobile devices such as laptops, personal digital assistants, and mobile phones have become a learning tool with great potential in both classrooms and outdoor learning. Although there have been qualitative analyses of the use of mobile devices in education, systematic quantitative analyses of the effects of mobile-integrated education are lacking. This study performed a meta-analysis and research synthesis of the effects of integrated mobile devices in teaching and learning, in which 110 experimental and quasiexperimental journal articles published during the period 1993-2013 were coded and analyzed. Overall, there was a moderate mean effect size of 0.523 for the application of mobile devices to education. The effect sizes of moderator variables were analyzed and the advantages and disadvantages of mobile learning in different levels of moderator variables were synthesized based on content analyses of individual studies. The results of this study and their implications for both research and practice are discussed. This is a meta-analysis and research synthesis study for mobile-integrated education.110 published journal articles that were written over a 20-year period were coded and analyzed.The application of mobile devices to education has a moderate mean effect size.The effect sizes of moderator variables were analyzed.The benefits and drawbacks of mobile learning were synthesized.

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The effects of integrating mobile devices with teaching and learning on students' learning performance

Integration of Information, Communication, and Technology (ICT) will assist teachers to the global requirement to replace traditional teaching methods with a technology-based teaching and learning tools and facilities. In Malaysia, ICT is considered as one of the main elements in transforming the country to the future development. The Ministry of Education, through the latest Education Blue print (2013-2025), insights the importance of technology-based teaching and learning into the schools’ national curriculum. This study aims to analyze teachers’ perceptions on effectiveness of ICT integration to support teaching and learning process in classroom. A survey questionnaire was distributed randomly to the total of 101 teachers from 10 public secondary schools in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The data for this quantitative research were analyzed for both descriptive and inferential statistic using SPSS (version 21) software. The results indicate that ICT integration has a great effectiveness for both teachers and the students. Findings indicate that teachers’ well-equipped preparation with ICT tools and facilities is one the main factors in success of technology-based teaching and learning. . It was also found that professional development training programs for teachers also played a key role in enhancing students’ quality learning. For the future studies, there is a need for consideration of other aspects of ICT integration especially from management point of view in regard to strategic planning and policy making.

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Teaching and Learning with Technology: Effectiveness of ICT Integration in Schools

Arthur Chickering is Distinguished Professor of Higher Education at Memphis State University. On leave from the Directorship of the Center for the Study of Higher Education at Memphis State, he is Visiting Professor at George Mason University. Zelda Gamson is a sociologist who holds appointments at the John W. McCormack Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Massachusetts-Boston and in the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education at the University of Michigan.

Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education: Faculty Inventory. Institutional Inventory.

Ease of use and usefulness are believed to be fundamental in determining the acceptance and use of various, corporate ITs. These beliefs, however, may not explain the user’s behavior toward newly emerging ITs, such as the World-Wide-Web (WWW). In this study, we introduce playfulness as a new factor that reflects the user’s intrinsic belief in WWW acceptance. Using it as an intrinsic motivation factor, we extend and empirically validate the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) for the WWW context. # 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

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Beyond the Usefulness and Ease of Use : Extending the TAM for a World - Wide - Web Context

The interactive digital technologies in education is an effective means used to widen educational opportunities. However, many faculty members do not use or adopt digital technologies as instructional tools. The purpose of this study was to predict faculty members’ use of digital technologies in Nigerian Universities. 492 university lecturers from Southwest Universities in Nigeria constituted the sample for the study. Faculty Members Technology Use Scale was used for collecting the data that were analysed at .05 significance level. Descriptive statistics such as simple percentage mean and standard deviation, and inferential statistics such as Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient, Analysis of Variance, and Multiple regression were used for the data analysis. The study provides evidence which support that most faculty members are yet to adopt emerging digital technologies for teaching and learning. Furthermore, findings of the study also indicate that some environmental factors motivate and frustrate faculty members’ use of digital technologies in the classroom. Similarly, the use of digital technologies by faculty members was found to be influenced by their academic status. In addition, the study reveals that gender, academic qualification, academic status, motivating and discouraging factors jointly contributed to the prediction of faculty members’ use of digital technologies. Meanwhile, all other variables except gender relatively and significantly contributed to the faculty members’ use of digital technologies.

Interactive digital technologies’ use in Southwest Nigerian universities

Interactive Computer Technologies (ICTs) have crept into education industry, thus dramatically causing transformation in instructional process. This study examined the relative and combined contributions of computer anxiety, self-concept and gender to teachers’ attitude towards the use of ICT(s). 454 Nigerian teachers constituted the sample. Three instruments were used to collect the data analysed with Pearson Product Moment Correlation, Multiple Regression and Analysis of Variance. The findings revealed that the combination of the three independent variables significantly predicted the independent variable. Gender did not make any significant contribution to the prediction of the dependent variable. Recommendations were made based on findings.

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Self-concept, computer anxiety, gender and attitude towards interactive computer technologies: A predictive study among Nigerian teachers

The student response system (SRS) is marketed as a reliable tool for improving students’ academic attainment. However, findings to the question of whether or not the SRS does improve the learning outcomes of ESL [English as a Second Language] learners in primary education are not well documented in the research literature. Despite the wide use of English as the medium of communication and instruction in many Anglophone countries such as Nigeria, a teacher’s ability to actively engage all students in the classroom is challenging and relatively difficult. Learners’ poor performance in school subjects, as well as national examinations conducted by bodies such as the West African Examination Council (W.A.E.C.) and the National Examination Council (N.E.C.O.) has been attributed to teachers’ reliance on, and use of, the traditional lecture method which deprives students of the necessary interaction, active engagement and dialogic communication that could promote improved learning outcomes. The adoption, as well as the use, of SRS in schools to enhance teaching and learning is yet to be a reality in Nigeria. Researchers argue that, for learners to experience improved academic attainment, they must possess a reasonable degree of communicative competence in the language of instruction. Moreover, language is best learnt when student learners are given the opportunity to interact in the class with a view of exploring the environmental artifacts to interactively use the target language in real life situations.

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Exploring the Efficacy of Student Response System in a Sub-Saharan African Country: A Sociocultural Perspective.

This study investigated the extent to which computer literacy dimensions (computer general knowledge, documents and documentations, communication and surfing as well as data inquiry), computer use and academic qualification as independent variables predicted primary school teachers’ attitude towards the integration of Personal Response System in English as a second language (ESL) classroom. Seventeen (17) Nigerian primary school teachers trained on why and how to effectively use Personal Response System (PRS) in ESL classrooms was the sample for the study. Data for the study were gathered through the use of Clickers Attitude Questionnaire (CAQ), Teachers’ Computer Literacy Questionnaire (TCLQ) and Computer Use Questionnaire (CUQ). Descriptive statistics such as simple percentage, mean and standard deviation, and inferential statistics such as Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient, and Multiple regression were used for data analysis at 0.05 significance level. The results show that the teachers’ computer literacy was more in the areas of documents and documentation as well as communication and surfing than in general knowledge and data inquiry. Further findings of the study indicated that general computer knowledge, documents and documentation, communication and surfing, and data inquiry combined to contribute to the prediction of teachers’ attitude towards the integration of PRS. Relatively, documents and documentation dimension was the potent predictor, while data inquiry was not a significant predictor of the outcome variable. Similarly, computer use, computer literacy and academic qualification jointly contributed to the prediction of the teachers’ attitude towards the integration of PRS in ESL classroom. Meanwhile, computer use made the most significant contribution to the prediction of teachers’ attitude towards PRS integration, while academic qualification did not make any significant contribution to the teachers’ attitude towards the integration of PRS in ESL classroom.

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Investigating Nigerian Primary School Teachers' Preparedness to Adopt Personal Response System in ESL Classroom

This study was designed to examine the statistical gender, academic qualification and marital status differences in primary school teachers’ use of Information and Electronic Technologies for stres...

Alaba Olaoluwakotansibe Agbatogun

Papers

Interactive digital technologies’ use in Southwest Nigerian universities

Self-concept, computer anxiety, gender and attitude towards interactive computer technologies: A predictive study among Nigerian teachers

Exploring the Efficacy of Student Response System in a Sub-Saharan African Country: A Sociocultural Perspective.

Investigating Nigerian Primary School Teachers' Preparedness to Adopt Personal Response System in ESL Classroom

Teachers’ Management of Stress Using Information and Electronic Technologies