STUDENTS’ READINESS AND PERCEPTIONS TOWARDS USING MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES FOR LEARNING THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LITERATURE COMPONENT

Abstract

The appropriate use of materials and tools in teaching and learning is undeniably helpful in making the process more meaningful. Current global developments open up more opportunities for educationists to design and implement ICT-based lessons. Realizing the fact that students nowadays are from the Net-generation and do not suffer from technophobia, a survey was conducted with the aim of examining students’ readiness and perceptions towards the use of mobile technologies in learning. In this paper, results from a preliminary study provide useful information about students’ readiness and perception towards using mobile technologies for learning the English language literature components in school. A total of 235 students were randomly selected to respond to an adapted questionnaire. Using SPSS 16, the data were processed and analyzed descriptively. The descriptive results showed that the participants displayed readiness and positive perceptions toward using mobile technologies for learning. The findings provide some insights to teachers so that they can employ suitable approaches in order to make learning the English language literature component more meaningful through the integration of tools used by Net-generation students.