Mobile English Learning: An Empirical Study on an APP, English Fun Dubbing

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  • Sihong Zhang Anhui University of Chinese Medicine; James Cook University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v11i12.6314

Keywords:

mobile English learning, APP, empirical study, anonymous online questionnaire

Abstract


The availability of smart phones connected to mobile network and the occurrence of APPs developed for the educational purposes provide us with the possibility and feasibility of mobile teaching and learning. English Fun Dubbing, an APP designed for its users to practice oral English, was employed in this one-academic-year empirical study to evaluate the benefits of mobile APPs in the field of pedagogy. When the study ended, an anonymous online questionnaire was distributed to the 123 participants to survey the effects of English Fun Dubbing on their English language learning. The results showed that the majority of the respondents were satisfied with it in many aspects including its conveniences, flexibility, user-friendliness, rich materials, authentic language context, etc. and also its functions to inspire learning interests, foster learner autonomy, help realize personalized learning, and so on. We concluded that a reasonable and wise choice of APPs would not only be useful for students’ English learning, but also help lead them to use mobile phones in a positive way.

Author Biography

Sihong Zhang, Anhui University of Chinese Medicine; James Cook University

Sihong Zhang is an associate professor of the School of International Education and Exchange of Anhui University of Chinese in which he acts as a vice dean. He is also an adjunct research fellow of The Language and Culture Research Centre of James Cook Univeristy. He has got his PhD from James Cook University, Australia. His research interests include language teaching, language documentation, corpus linguistics and linguistic typology.

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Published

2016-12-08

How to Cite

Zhang, S. (2016). Mobile English Learning: An Empirical Study on an APP, English Fun Dubbing. International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET), 11(12), pp. 4–8. https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v11i12.6314

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