Abstract
Mobile devices have become widely accepted and exploited didactic means on all levels of education and in all subjects to appropriate extent, including foreign languages. This study focuses on their use within technical (i.e. bachelor) and engineering (i.e. master) higher education in Informatics and Management study programmes at the Faculty of Informatics and Management (FIM), University of Hradec Kralove (UHK), Czech Republic, particularly focusing on comparison of general subjects to English for specific purposes (ESP). Therefore, following questions were set to be researched: (1) What types of mobile devices do students possess?, (2) What purposes do students use mobile devices? and (3) What is students´ feedback after mobile devices implementation in ESP and other subjects is? The case study was exploited to describe the state in mobile-assisted language learning (MALL) at FIM and students´ feedback was collected by the questionnaire on this approach to teaching/learning. The results show Czech students are sufficiently equipped by mobile devices so that these can be implemented in the process of teaching/learning of all subjects, including ESP.
Highlights
A shift has been detected within the exploitation of didactic means reflecting the latest technical and technological development, i.e. from traditional, non-portable devices to mobile ones
This study focuses on the use of mobile devices within technical and engineering higher education in Informatics and Management study programmes at the Faculty of Informatics and Management (FIM), University of Hradec Kralove (UHK), Czech Republic
Our study proved identical results as e.g. Viberg, Gronlund [28] who monitored attitudes towards the use of mobile devices in second and foreign language learning in higher education taking cross-cultural view into account
Summary
A shift has been detected within the exploitation of didactic means reflecting the latest technical and technological development, i.e. from traditional, non-portable (immobile) devices to mobile ones. Until now the traditional e-learning using non-portable devices has been widely implemented into the education in the Czech Republic. This state reflected the fact mobile devices were not widely available for reasonable prices on the Czech market. Foreign languages can be even understand as a leader in the field of mobile-assisted language learning (MALL). This process started from unintentional listening to songs, mostly in English, to highly intentional learning activities, e.g. listening to texts, speaking – communicating, either separately, or within various mobile applications or a learning management system (LMS) running on mobile devices [1]. Following questions were set to be researched: 1. What types of mobile devices do students possess?
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