Using Mobile Phones in Learning English Language

Date
2019
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Department of English Education
Abstract
This research work entitled Using Mobile Phones in English Language Learning has been carried out to find out the extent to which the students of secondary school (class 10) use mobile phones in English language learning and to ascertain students' attitude towards the use of mobile phone as language learning tool. It is a cross sectional survey research which is akin to both qualitative and quantitative research. The population of this study consists of secondary school students of two different schools. It employs both primary and secondary sources of data to reach into conclusion. The study examines the students' attitude toward the use of mobile phone in English language learning. The findings obtained from the data collection tools show that the student had positive attitude toward the use of mobile phone. The result of the study confirmed that mobile phone has positive impact on the students' language learning achievement. Thus, this study concluded that there must not be total ban on the use of mobile phones for students since mobiles provide students with an interesting, innovative, and engaging English language learning. The thesis consists of five chapters. Chapter I includes general background, statement of problem, objective of the study , hypothesis of the study, significance of the study , and operational definition of key terms. Chapter II deals with review of related theoretical and empirical literature. Chapter III consists the methods and procedures of the study where the design of the study, population and sample, sampling procedure, data collection tool, data collection procedure and data analysis and interpretation procedures have been mentioned. Chapter IV talks about analysis of data and interpretation of the result and summary of findings. Chapter V presents conclusion and recommendation. Finally last part of the thesis is followed by references and appendixes.
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Mobile phones, Language learning device
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