Abstract
<p>This paper attempts to investigate the effect of using cell phone dictionaries on improving male and female Iranian high school EFL learners’ spelling. To this end, ninety participants were randomly selected from Dinodanesh and Etrat high schools in Lordegan city, and they were given a spelling pretest based on their course book. Then sixty subjects whose scores were within the range of one standard deviation above and below the mean were selected as homogeneous and divided into experimental and control groups. Using cell phone dictionaries was conducted in eight class session, during which experimental group received training with cell phone dictionaries while the control group only received training without any cell phone dictionaries. The data were collected via a pretest and a posttest. The analysis of the test scores using t-test revealed that the experimental group did statistically better in the test. The results revealed that using cell phone dictionary had positive effect on improving EFL learners’ spelling. At the end, a two-way ANOVA was run to compare the two groups plus the effect of gender on such performance. The results indicated that treatment have an effect on the improving of both male and female EFL learners’ spelling.</p>
Highlights
1.1 Introducing the ProblemIn recent years, researchers have witnessed the concomitant rise of cell phone assisted language learning in educational and academic settings
As the researcher investigated the effect of using cell phone dictionaries on improving male and female Iranian high school EFL learners’ spelling, to achieve this goal the researcher performed these stages in this study, and the research was done according to these stages: 1)
In this study the book and teacher guide helped the students, when they could not guess the correct words, and the control group practiced the word spelling in their note books and the experimental group practiced the words in cell phone dictionary
Summary
Researchers have witnessed the concomitant rise of cell phone assisted language learning in educational and academic settings. Nowadays education is more and more taking advantage of Information Technology. One of the most attractive technological devices is the mobile phone which represents a revolution in education. The traditional classroom, blackboard, and textbooks can no longer satisfy the needs of generations of students used to handle technological tools since their childhood. As cell phones with high capabilities extend into all areas of human life, it is expected that this wireless computing device soon becomes accessible for all urban and rural areas of each country. Widespread access to such an inexpensive and sophisticated device has rather changed the landscape of e-learning in many ways. Cell phone learning can be considered as the generation of e-learning. Cell phone devices are not substitute for existing learning devices, but they serve as extension for learning in new environment having new capabilities, though, not all learning content and activities are appropriate for cell phone devices
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