Title :
A Preliminary Study on Taiwanese EFL Adolescents´ Perceptions of Mobile-Assisted Post-Reading Tasks
Author :
Ya-Wen Ho;Chih-Cheng Lin
Author_Institution :
Dept. of English, Nat. Taiwan Normal Univ., Taipei, Taiwan
fDate :
7/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The present study investigated EFL adolescents´ perceptions of mobile-assisted post-reading tasks. Five group-based post-reading tasks were implemented succeeding the participants´ reading of science-related assigned books in a ten-week mobile-assisted reading program. A questionnaire was administered after the participants carried out a post-reading task to survey their perceptions of the post-reading tasks and their preferred types of post-reading tasks. Learning journals were also collected to gain more insights. Finally, semi-structured interviews were conducted with nine participants to triangulate the data. It was found that the participants consistently rated the five-post-reading tasks highly and preferred discussion the most. It was also revealed that the post-reading tasks helped increase the participants´ dedication to the reading program and facilitated learner collaboration.
Keywords :
"Mobile communication","Collaboration","Interviews","Education","Computers","Cellular phones","Mobile handsets"
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 2015 IEEE 15th International Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/ICALT.2015.21