tailieunhanh - Tachers' support for students' use of digital resources through mobile devices in English learning

This paper reports a study that investigated Vietnamese EFL tertiary teachers’ support for their students’ use of digital resources through mobile devices to learn English. | Tạp chí Khoa học Ngôn ngữ và Văn hóa ISSN 2525-2674 Tập 1, Số 2, 2017 TEACHERS' SUPPORT FOR STUDENTS' USE OF DIGITAL RESOURCES THROUGH MOBILE DEVICES IN ENGLISH LEARNING Tran Quang Ngoc Thuy* University of Foreign Languages, Hue University Received: 20/03/2017; Revised: 17/04/2017; Accepted: 21/08/2017 Abstract: This paper reports a study that investigated Vietnamese EFL tertiary teachers’ support for their students’ use of digital resources through mobile devices to learn English. The study involved 26 teachers in the department of English of a university in central Vietnam and used a mixed methods approach collecting data from an online survey, semistructured interviews, classroom observations and digital evidence documentation. The findings show that the teachers in general have provided various types of support to their students in using digital resources to learn English which can be categorized into affection, capacity and behavior support. The findings also reveal the teachers’ counter support due to their concerns about students’ overuse and overdependence on digital resources that are easily made available on mobile devices. Key words: digital resources, mobile devices, teachers’ support 1. Introduction Digital resources have concurrently been increasingly popular among foreign language teachers and learners, together with the development of mobile technologies. Recent advances in Internet and information technologies and the popularity of laptops, smart phones, tablets, and other mobile devices have changed the way of teaching and learning a foreign language to a great extent. Mobile learning for language learning has attracted wide attention as can be seen by the growing number of publications on this area in recent years (see Alajmi, 2011; Lai, 2013). Although the range of research into the use of digital resources and mobile devices for language learning has been diverse, very few studies examined teachers’ support for students to use digital .

• Ngôn ngữ học
• Tachers support for students
• Digital resources through mobile devices
• Mobile devices in English learning
• Vietnamese EFL tertiary teachers
• the department of English
• Students’ perception concerning grammar teaching
• English Literature Department
• Pedagogy of grammar
• Participants perceived grammar
• Study of English
• English language graduation thesis
• English language
• Learning listening comprehension faced
• Foreign languages department
• Learning communication in any another languages
• English for specific purposes
• English for mathematical purposes
• English language teaching
• English department
• EMP training program
• Enhancing effects of exploiting academic vocabulary
• Speaking skill of third year students of English
• Foreign language department
• Báo cáo nghiên cứu khoa học
• Nghiên cứu khoa học
• Applying technology combining
• Flipped learning
• Teaching with academic credit based
• A1 English department
• Academic credit based training system
• Developing supplementary writing tasks
• Semester 3 students of English Education Department
• STAIN Gajah Putih
• Writing process
• Check competence
• Grammatical errors analysis
• The descriptive writing
• The semester 3 students of English Education Department
• Learning need
• Syllabus development
• basic English grammar
• english grammar
• english test
• english exam
• multiple choice exam
• practice grammar
• Luận văn Thạc sĩ
• Tóm tắt luận văn thạc sĩ
• the English language
• Master thesis in the English language
• A discourse analysis
• Spokesmen’s announcements
• Creativity in the English language classroom
• English language classroom
• Teach creative writing in the English
• Bibliography of source texts
• Resource books
• Ebook English for international
• English for international: Tourism
• Customer relations departments
• Tour operator's customer relations department
• Tourist information center
• Promoting conference venues
• ELECTRONICS
• TELECOMMUNICATIONS
• LANGUAGES DEPARTMENT ENGLISH
• CONDUCTIVITY
• temperature sensing devices
• Translation orientation
• Translation methods
• Translation procedures
• Students majoring in the English language
• Improve translation skill
• Academic integrity
• Digital information sources
• English proficiency
• Improper learning strategies
• Convention on International
• Endangered Species
• Department of Forestry
• Nature Conservation
• Fauna and Flora
• International Indonesia
• In this workbook
• experiments are elaborated using small scale glassware and equipments from a Small Lab Kit
• developed at the Department of Chemistry
• Faculty of Science
• Chulalongkorn University in Thailand
• This Small Lab Kit was created as a result of the research project entitled “Chemistry Laboratory Based on Chemical Safety and Pollution Minimization” sponsored by Thai Research Fund (RDG 3 07 2543)
• One of the outcomes of this project is the organic laboratory book entitled “Organic Chemistry Laboratory Based on Chemical Safety and Pollution Minimization” written in Thai by professors from 7 universities in this project
• They compiled
• adjusted and tested the experiments taken from several traditional organic chemistry laboratory books using the prototype of Small Lab Kit
• Currently
• some selected experiments from this Thai organic chemistry laboratory text have further been modified
• rewritten and edited in English as appeared in this workbook
• Some experiments ar
• executive and spokesperson
• gunman murdered
• fast food restaurant
• grieving families
• police department
• media issues
• Textbook New Headway Pre intermediate
• Grammar approach
• English grammar teaching
• Presentation Practic production
• Language teaching
• Mock conference
• Interpretation skills
• Teaching interpretation skills
• Process oriented
• Inter linguistic communication
• ESP vocabulary
• Simulation task
• English for Automotive Engineering
• Automotive Engineering Technology Department
• Learning ESP vocabulary
• Extensive reading
• Reading station
• Transitional activity
• General understanding
• English Department of Hue University
• Formative assessment
• ESP department
• Level of education
• Year of experience
• Non English major students
• Language performance
• Language attitude
• Positive attitudes
• High attitude
• Low attitude
• Memrise mobile application
• Vocabulary learning of EFL students
• EFL students
• Reading comprehension performance
• Department of English