Prospect for Cell Phones as Instructional Tools in the EFL Classroom: A Case Study of Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh

Autor/in	Begum, Roksana
Titel	Prospect for Cell Phones as Instructional Tools in the EFL Classroom: A Case Study of Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh
Quelle	In: English Language Teaching, 4 (2011) 1, S.105-115 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1916-4742
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; English (Second Language); Second Language Instruction; Teaching Methods; Telecommunications; Handheld Devices; Technology Uses in Education; Case Studies; Undergraduate Students; Questionnaires; Interviews; College Faculty; Tests; Student Attitudes; Teacher Attitudes; Bangladesh + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Telekommunikationstechnik; Technology enhanced learning; Technology aided learning; Technologieunterstütztes Lernen; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Fragebogen; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Fakultät; Examination; Prüfung; Examen; Schülerverhalten; Lehrerverhalten; Bangladesch
Abstract	The aim of this study was to investigate the potentiality of cell phone use in the EFL classroom of Bangladesh as an instructional tool. The researcher conducted a case study on Jahangirnagar University of Bangladesh. For the study, some SMS based class tests were conducted in the English Department of the university where one hundred undergraduate EFL students participated as subjects. Before the tests, Some EFL teachers sent mobile SMS to students as a means of instruction for teaching appropriate use of preposition for one week. After one week, the teachers took some class tests where the test questions were delivered via SMS and the students also answered the test questions by mobile SMS. The author collected data through students' questionnaires, and teachers' interview records and classroom observation reports. The research results demonstrated that cell phone has great potential as an instructional tool despite some challenges that can be resolved by the sincere attempts of the authority, teachers and by changing the ethical point of view that consider cell phones as merely a disturbing factor in the classroom. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01