Predicting University Students' Mobile Learning Attitudes in Language Classrooms

Abstract

This study aimed to examine the predictive role of digital literacy skills on mobile English learning attitudes. It was conducted with 135 university students studying in the school of foreign languages of a state university in Turkey, and the data were gathered using digital literacy scale and English mobile learning attitude scale. This study showed that university students' digital literacy skills and mobile English learning attitudes were high and their digital literacy skills have a moderate and positive relationship with their mobile English learning attitudes. Besides, it was concluded that university students' digital literacy skills significantly predicted their mobile English learning attitudes and they together explained 50% of the total variance on their mobile English learning attitudes. Also, university students' scores on the attitude subscale of the digital literacy scale presented the largest effect on their mobile English learning attitudes.