Students readiness and motivation to use mobile phone for learning english at higher learning institution

Mizad, Meizareena and Yusoff, Zailin Shah and Sayadi, Zainal Abidin and Abdul Latif, Azmi and Sukiman, Safra Liyana (2018) Students readiness and motivation to use mobile phone for learning english at higher learning institution. International Journal of Asian Social Science, 8 (11). pp. 1077-1087. ISSN 2224-4441

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Abstract

The rapid growth on ICT have reshaped our live today, and nowadays' university students in Higher Learning Institutions have an immense use of mobile phones, iPads and other portable devices. Mobile learning or m-Learning focuses on the mobility of the learner while interacting with portable technologies. The use of mobile learning among university students is seen as an alternative to increase their interest and motivation on learning the academic programmes at Higher Learning Institution. The m-learners use mobile device for educational purpose at their own time convenience. An online questionnaire survey will be used to collect data for this study. The findings will reveal on the students‟ readiness which are basic readiness, skills readiness, psychological readiness and budget readiness at a public university in Malaysia in relation to mobile learning. The study will also explore the students‟ motivation towards the use of mobile technologies for learning English in the university. A discussion on the implications of the findings will also be presented.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Mobile learning; Higher learning institution; Readiness; Motivation
Subjects:	L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300-2430 Higher education > LB2326.4-2330 Institutions of higher education
Divisions:	Center for Language Studies > Department of English Language and Linguistics
Depositing User:	UiTM Student Praktikal
Date Deposited:	24 Jan 2022 08:52
Last Modified:	24 Jan 2022 08:52
URI:	http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/id/eprint/5914

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