EFL students using smartphones initiate classroom activities significantly faster than peers doing identical paper-based activities¶

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q3 i? The experimental group initiated smartphone tasks immediately upon request while the control group took a minimum of 10 seconds to initiate the same tasks, a statistically significant difference. → Pir Suhail Ahmed Sarhandi 2017

Evidence¶

Pir Suhail Ahmed Sarhandi 2017¶

Pir Suhail Ahmed Sarhandi, Ayman Bajnaid & Tariq Elyas. (2017). Impact of Smartphone Based Activities on EFL Students' Engagement. English Language Teaching, 10(6). https://doi.org/10.5539/elt.v10n6p103

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Quasi-experimental comparison of initiation times recorded in teachers' activity journals across 19 treatment sessions with 50 Saudi male EFL students. The experimental group's mean initiation time was "M=0.00, SD= 0.00" versus 14.21 seconds for controls, t(18) = -22.28, p < 0.001.

"An independent sample T-Test affirmed that the initiation times of the experimental group (n= 19, M=0.00, SD= 0.00) were significantly different from the initiation times of the control group (n= 19, M=14.21, SD=2.78); t (18) = -22.28, p < 0.001."

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