Tabrizi, Amir Reza Nemat and
Mohammad Bagheri Fard. 2016. The Effect
of Using Cell Phone Dictionary on Improving Male and Female Iranian EFL
Learners’ Spelling. International Journal of English Linguistics. November.
Vol. 6, No. 6
This paper
attempts to investigate the effect of using cell phone dictionaries on improving
male and female Iranian high school EFL learners’ spelling. Because Nowadays
education is more and more taking advantage of Information Technology. Students
chose cell phone cause it’s offer an ideal platform for learning and the usage
of dictionary in cell phones and its probable impact on student spelling has
been overlooked in the literature. Students also can put their cell phone in
their pocket and bring it everywhere. Researcher in
Japan examined the use of cell phone in education. In this study students were surveyed
regarding their use of mobile phones. English vocabulary lessons were sent to
the learners' mobile phones using short text messages and a website was
developed to explain the English idioms which students surfed using the 3G
phones. The findings revealed that mobile phones are ubiquitous among students
and learners were ready to read small texts on mobile screens. It was noted
that mobile phones can effectively serve to educate a foreign language learner
and short text messages is very useful in teaching vocabulary. As the
researcher investigated the effect of using cell phone dictionaries on
improving male and female Iranian high school EFL learners’ spelling results
suggest that using cellphone had a significant effect on students’ spelling.
The finding posited mobile phone technology may lead to positive effects in
learning environments because of its widespread use and functions such as
mobility, reach ability, localization and personalization.
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