Mobile-Assisted Language Learning: Impacts of Smartphones on College Students' Life and English Learning Experiences

行動裝置輔助語言學習：智慧型手機對大學生生活的衝擊與影響

邱智仁(Chi-Yen Chiu) ； 郭貽婷(Yi-Ting Guo) ； 施季儂(Ji-Nong Shih) ； 陳秀珠(Xiu-Chu Chen) ； 鄭珮妤(Pei-Yu Cheng) ； 鍾佶亨(Ji-Heng Chung)

《國立虎尾科技大學學報》 32卷3期 (2015/06) Pp. 63-75

https://doi.org/10.6425/JNHUST.201506_32(3).0005

摘要

本研究的主旨在探索智慧型手機對於大學生日常生活的衝擊與英文學習的影響。兩百位來自於一所國立科技大學學生受邀填寫一份問卷，此問卷主要包括三個部分：（一）學生們日常生活使用手機的各種情況；（二）同學們是否善於運用手機來學習英文；（三）使用手機帶來的好處與壞處。研究結果顯示：大部分的學生在日常生活中使用智慧型手機的情況並非直接與英文學習有關，而是用來打電話、玩遊戲、上網、拍照等等。有不少同學承認在使用智慧型手機後，會出現視覺疲勞（81%;M=4.13）與脖子疼痛（62%;M=3.8）等症狀。不過，也有近八成（79%）的學生指出智慧型手機的確提供了多種實用的應用程式（M=4.03）。另外，有許多同學（81%）會在日常生活中經常使用智慧型手機來查不會的英文單字（M=4.28）。本研究的結果不但可以提供學者更深入的檢視大學生日常生活手機使用的實際情況，也可以給予想要運用智慧型手機在語言學習課程的教育工作者作為參考。

關鍵字

行動裝置輔助語言學習 ； 智慧型手機 ； 大學生 ； 英語學習

並列摘要

This paper aims to explore the influences of smartphones on college students’ life and English learning. Two hundred college students were recruited from a national university of science and technology to fill out a questionnaire, designed to investigate their perspectives of using smartphones for English learning as well as the advantages and disadvantages of using smartphones in their daily life. It was found the daily activities these college students mostly engaged in on smartphones were things (eg. making a call, playing games, surfing on the net, and taking photos) other than learning English. A good number of students had eyestrain (81%, M=4.13) and neck pain (62%, M=3.8) because of using a smartphone. Nevertheless, 79% of the participants agreed that smartphones did provide them with useful application software (M=4.03), and 81% of the students had used smartphones to look up English vocabulary in their daily life (M=4.28). Implications drawn from this study will help English teachers as well as other educators to understand the influence of smartphones on college students' daily life and language learning.

並列關鍵字

Mobile-Assisted Language Learning (MALL) ； smartphones ； college students ； English learning

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