Abstract
The current study sought to establish perceptions of lecturers and Peer Assistant Learning (PAL) Tutors on students' phubbing at a rural university in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. The study adopted the quantitative approach in which a survey was employed. A sample of 50 academics that consisted of 39 lecturers from a population of 71 and 11 PAL Tutors from a population of 14 voluntarily completed the survey. A structured 5-point Likert scale questionnaire was used for the data collection. The researchers captured the data manually into Statistical Package for Social Sciences and they were analysed using descriptive statistics. The study found that majority of lecturers and PAL Tutors had a negative perception on students' phubbing in classroom. It was strongly confirmed that students were addicted to cell phones. Around 0%-20% of the students were phubbing by doing different activities in classroom which was more enough for the whole learning and teaching to be spoiled. Overall, phubbing created a serious interruption to lecturers, PAL Tutors as well as the whole class and this implicated the study to highlight that students were crossing the boundary line. This study also provided recommendations to the educators and management to minimize phubbing inside classroom.
Highlights
The daily developments of technologies ubiquitously have become very common
Beger and Sinha [5] highlighted that 72% of South African adolescents between the age of 15 and 24 use cell phones
The findings revealed that around 41% of the students were phubbing in the classroom while the lecture was taking place and it was negatively affecting the whole learning process
Summary
The impact of cell phones in the life of common people especially in youngsters has been proliferated remarkably. According to Global System for Mobile Communications (GSMA) Intelligence [1], the number of cell phone connections including the licensed cellular all over the world has crossed over 8 billion. There was an increase of 3.1 million of cell phone connections in South Africa between January 2019 and January 2020 [4]. Beger and Sinha [5] highlighted that 72% of South African adolescents between the age of 15 and 24 use cell phones. According to the report of CNN, between 2007 and 2014 the ownership of cell phones among adolescents in South Africa climbed up from 21% to 50.8% [6]
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