Influence of Mobile Learning on Students` Essay Writing in the English Language | #journalsummary
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INFLUENCE OF MOBILE LEARNING ON
STUDENTS` ESSAY WRITING IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Mohammed
Habib ABBA, Muhammad Ali MUSTAPHA, & Mohammed Goni BUKAR
Source: International Journal of English
Language Teaching, Vol.7, No.4, June 2019, pp.30-35
Objective(s)
The objectives of the
study were to examine:
1. Influence of mobile
learning on students` descriptive essay writing
2. Influence of mobile
learning on students` narrative essay writing
3. Influence of mobile
learning on students` expository essay writing
Focus
of the study
The study examines the influence of mobile learning on students` essay writing in the English language.
Hypotheses
The following
hypotheses were tested:
Ho1: Use of mobile
learning does not influence students` descriptive essay writing
Ho2: Mobile learning
does not influence students` narrative essay writing
Ho3: there is no
significant influence of mobile learning on students` expository essay writing
Setting
(place, time)
The research is
conducted in Kanembright College, Maiduguri.
Subjects
(participants)
Out of 205 registered
ESL registered students, 40 learners in advanced class were sampled
Data
collection techniques (instruments)
The students were
divided into two set of groups; experiment and control groups. The research
conducts pretest and posttest. Treatment which is audio and video lessons
shared to student via their mobile phones was conducted throughout the program
sessions.
Data
analysis techniques (Specify the statistical tests to analyze the data.)
The data collected from
the participants were analyzed using inferential statistics using one-way
ANOVA.
Findings/results
(Write the statistical terms to report the findings.)
Table 1 presents the results
of ANOVA on students` achievement in a descriptive essay. The results indicate
that there was no difference in the achievement of the students in the pretest
at 0.957. In the posttest, there was a significant difference in the achievement
of the students at 0.01 level of significance.
Table 2 presents the
one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). The posttest result showed that the experimental group achieved higher grades than the control group at a 0.01 level
of significance.
Table 3 presents ANOVA
on students` achievement in expository essay writing. The posttest result
revealed that the experimental group achieved higher grades after being taught
using m-learning. Thus the null hypothesis was rejected at >0.05 level of
significance.
The findings of the
study revealed that mobile learning has a significant effect on students`
achievement in essay writings. All of the three categories of essay writing;
descriptive, narrative, and expository essays found to have been influenced by
m-learning.
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