MOBILE LEARNING

MOBILE LEARNING

1. Positive perception of the role of MALL in enchancing learners' English though proviiding them with the oppourtunity to access various useful materials, to carry out different activities in English , and to communicate and interact with their friends and lecturers using English. implication acceptance of MALL by the Malaysian postgraduate students is the need for rethinking and redesigning the learning materiaks to incorporate mobile langfuange learning opportunities for student to exploit

2. Mobile phones ara recognised as useful mini computer that fit in a student's pocket, and that are portable technological devices which are almost always stitched on, the third generation (3G) mobile services has the potential of becoming a widely used effective learning tool, and of making M-learning the next wave of any learning environment. it can improve languange learning especially provide learners with increased opportunities for leaning English outside the formal physical contexts of learnig

   • Theoretical flamework and review of research
     • Theoretical flamework and review of research
     • Thechology Accceptance Model (TAM) which are beliefs, attitudes, intentions, and behaviours of inviduals
     • Person performance can be determind by behavioural intention to person the behaviour
     • TAM in techology-based research is widely accepted as an effective and useful model
     • A person's perceived ease of use refers to the person's perception that adopting a new techology
     • using M-learning to improving English learming
     • M-learning technology is percieved as a novel area of research, and it is worth examining using the TAM model
   • Findings
     • Indicate that while the Malaysian ESL postgraduates perceived the effectiveness of MALL in enchancing their English in term of PEoU, PU and BI, they did not display a high level of actual use of mobile devices for Englisb learning
     • useful for learning English, particularly in term of accessing the information they want in English communicating with friends and lecturers in English, and using it anytime and anywhere they wanted
     • can be achieved anytime and anywhere through saved songs, audio, videos, games and other programmers that do not require the internet, accessing information through mobile phones requires
     • Used mobile phones more often that the iPads in order to learn Englisg and were aware of the effectivebess of other mobile devices such as the iPads, MP3 players and the laprops in learning Englsih
   • Methodology
     • Twenty-five English Language Studies (ELS) graduate students volunteered to investigate learners' level of and attitudes towards CALL and podcasting in various aspects of learning
     • A pilot test confirmed the reliability and validity of each measurement
     • It merely required replacing Callwith Mall for evert section and item
     • The overall mean score of each construct as previously mentioned were measured under three diffrent ranking values which were hadapted from previous research investigating various aspects of learners' perceptions