Foundation-year EFL students reported positive attitudes toward using mobile phones for learning, with 60% responding positively on willingness items¶

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q2 i? On the six willingness-to-use items of the attitude questionnaire, 60% of respondents answered positively, 25% negatively and 15% neutrally. → Khrisat and Mahmoud 2013

Evidence¶

Khrisat and Mahmoud 2013¶

Abdulhafeth A. Khrisat & Salameh Saleem Mahmoud. (2013). Integrating Mobile Phones into the EFL Foundation Year Classroom in King Abdulaziz University/KSA: Effects on Achievement in General English and Students' Attitudes. English Language Teaching, 6(8). http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/elt.v6n8p162

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Questionnaire study of the forty foundation-year participants using a twenty-item five-point Likert instrument with reported reliability of 0.84. The article's summary of the willingness subgroup shows "60% responded positively". Percentages are descriptive; no inferential test is reported.

"A summary of the percentages of the six items shows that 25% of the sample responded negatively to the six items of the first subgroup that is using the mobile in the EFL classroom, whereas 15% were neutral and 60% responded positively"

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