This study is an investigation of paperless language learning in the context of the United Arab Emirates. The purpose of this study was to examine Emirati level 1 English language learners' attitudes towards the iPad use as a means of language learning. It was done through a cross-sectional survey questionnaire, wholly composed of fixed-choice questions, and through weekly reflective journals that were written by the teachers teaching the groups. The survey collected data through a questionnaire from 80 students who had been exposed to paperless language learning for a duration of 80 teaching periods. The data collected showed positive student attitudes towards iPad implementation as a language learning tool in terms of learner satisfaction, motivation, perceived tool usefulness and learning effectiveness. Reflective journal analysis showed that the digital world presents the students with a direct link between the effort taken and the reward received, whereas the feedback or the reward given by the teachers in the traditional classroom was either too nebulous or too slow to motivate students to keep the pace of progressive learning.
Many approaches seek to describe the dynamic process of the implementation of innovation adoption. However, little is known about the factors linked to choices to adopt innovations and how the likelihood of adoption of innovations can be increased. The purpose of this review is to evaluate the recent practices of innovation adoption approaches in the field of education in the integration of mobile technology in the classroom. It presents an overview of the theories and approaches used to examine the process and effects of introducing new teaching methods into the educational system. The better the adoption approaches are understood, the more likely adoption challenges are addressed thus leading to primary operations.
The description and understanding of the learning has changed significantly over time and is still in its transformational modern stage, which necessitates exploration and investigation of the pros and cons of innovative changes in the field of education. Some teachers resist those changes and do not feel comfortable teaching through or with mobile technology as they do not want to look incompetent when they are unable to troubleshoot. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the methodology of qualitative studies conducted on the integration of mobile technology in language classroom and teachers' attitudes towards using technology in teaching. The paper aims at examining 15 studies published in educational journals between 2006 and 2016. The articles discuss two aspects of educational technology: mobile technology integration in education and teachers' attitudes and professional development for implementing technology in language classroom.
First year bachelor students have a much higher level of responsibility than they experienced in foundations or high school. Students who do not manage their responsibilities well may experience failure in classes that can lower their self-concept and cause them to drop out of college altogether. For many of these students, the academic difficulty of the bachelor courses was compounded by a lack of student skills. To address this issue, the Academic Success Program (ASP) Coordinators at one of the tertiary level institutions in the United Arab Emirates presented an initiative to the management team to help codify the procedures for dealing with at-risk students. In this initiative, the ASP personnel met individually with the identified students twice with a two week interval, discussed the Essential Skills for College Students and worked with them to create individual learning plans to improve their skills. To keep the learning plan in focus, the students kept daily reflective journals for two weeks identifying the actions they took to improve their skills and met again the ASP personnel to discuss successes and further challenges that needed to be addressed. The analysis showed that when students reflect, the value of reflections stem from the ways through which learning is achieved, whether students are able to develop study skills through growth mind set and whether they are able to control the learning speed and style of interaction. So, from the ASP perspective in learning, control of learning can be achieved based on learner characteristics such as self-efficacy and self-regulation, which, as students' reflections showed, can successfully result in motivation and active learning.
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