Learning through WhatsApp: students’ beliefs, L2 pragmatic development and interpersonal relationships

García-Gómez, Antonio

doi:10.1080/09588221.2020.1799822

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“…Finally, regarding the participants' purposes of using digital tools, this study shares similar results to what previous studies have reported e.g., social media for learning English (Colton, 2020;De Groot, 2017), e-dictionary for vocabulary learning (Wang, 2012), social media for intercultural understanding (Özdemir, 2017;Wang & Chen, 2020), messenger (WhatsApp) for collaborative learning (García-Gómez, 2020;Rinekso & Muslim, 2020) and teleconference apps (Zoom) for language learning (Kohnke & Moorhouse, 2020). However, this study offers significant novelty in the field of digital literacy because it focused on the tertiary education context, which is characteristically different from the high school context.…”

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Digital literacy practices in tertiary education: A case of EFL postgraduate students

Rinekso

Rodliyah

Pertiwi

2021

SiELE

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Over the past few decades, technologies grew rapidly, transforming traditional instructions to be more digitalized and stimulating many researchers to study digital literacy practices in a school-educational context. However, studies exploring digital literacy practices in the context of tertiary education are still scarce. Within the qualitative approach, this study investigated digital literacy practices by EFL (English as a Foreign Language) postgraduate students. Moreover, it intensively discusses the kinds of digital tools used by the participants and the purposes of using them. Additionally, the way the participants conceptualized digital literacy was also elaborated. Thirty-four EFL Master students of a public university in Bandung, Indonesia, participated in this study. An online open-ended questionnaire and semi-structured interviews were applied in data collection. Meanwhile, eight dimensions of digital literacy in the Hague and Payton’s frameworks were used as the basis of the thematical analysis of the interview data. Results showed that the participants conceptualized digital literacy as soft skills for managing digital information covering the acts of searching, comprehending, evaluating, creating, and sharing. The prominent result of this study relates to how the participants used digital tools for academic/research and general purposes. Subsequently, this study recommends that tertiary education institutions provide more training on maximizing digital tools for academic writing and broader access to prepaid journal articles. Further exploration of lecturers’ digital literacy practices is highly recommended.

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Digital literacy practices in tertiary education: A case of EFL postgraduate students

Rinekso

Rodliyah

Pertiwi

2021

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“…One of the elements of cognitive presence, therefore, might not be seen in practice. Garcia-Gomes ( 2020 ) also draws attention to the ease of use of WhatsApp, which could lead to misunderstandings. The author suggests that instructors should closely monitor interactions among students to prevent such issues.…”

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“We are much closer here”: exploring the use of WhatsApp as a learning environment in a secondary school mathematics class

Durgungoz

2021

Learning Environ Res

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In this study, we examined a mathematics teacher’s communicative acts on an instant messaging tool, WhatsApp, and its role in creating a sustained learning environment between secondary-school students and a teacher in Turkey. The interactions of a mathematics teacher and his students ( n = 38) over two years were explored. The WhatsApp group increased interaction in out-of-school hours. Analysis of the teacher’s communicative acts was the leading force that encouraged the group to continue to interact. The teacher portrayed an informal and sincere presentation of himself on social media. A constructive communication style between teacher and students was fostered by connecting through WhatsApp in out-of-school hours, when the teacher’s informal communicative acts have facilitated their learning.

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“…En el ámbito de estudio de la comunicación online existen evidencias del benefi cio de la utilización de mensajería instantánea sobre el aprendizaje (Almogheerah, 2020), la interacción y la comunicación en el contexto educativo ( Alubthane y AL-Youssef, 2021), la motivación de logro y la inteligencia social (Alshaibani y Qusti, 2020), o el rendimiento académico (Conde et al, 2020); pero también de su escaso valor educativo (Abualrob y Nazzal, 2020;García-Gómez, 2020). Los resultados obtenidos en nuestro trabajo permiten concluir que tanto el uso de WhatsApp como el del correo electrónico no mejoran, en general, el nivel competencial de comunicación digital, aunque sí lo hacen en algunas áreas competenciales.…”

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Influencia del uso de WhatsApp y correo electrónico en la competencia digital en el área de comunicación

Martín

Cabezas-González

García-Valcárcel-Muñoz-Repiso

2021

Estudios sobre Educación

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El avance tecnológico de los dispositivos móviles ha cambiado significativamente la manera en que los estudiantes se comunican e interactúan. Se presenta una investigación cuya finalidad es analizar el nivel de competencia digital, en el área de comunicación, que tienen escolares españoles de 12-16 años, y determinar si el uso de WhatsApp y correo electrónico influyen en él. Se empleó una metodología cuantitativa, se trabajó con una muestra de 807 estudiantes y se utilizó una prueba de resolución de problemas para la recogida de datos. Los resultados evidencian que el uso de estas herramientas comunicativas no mejora el nivel competencial.

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Learning through WhatsApp: students’ beliefs, L2 pragmatic development and interpersonal relationships

Cited by 25 publications

References 51 publications

Digital literacy practices in tertiary education: A case of EFL postgraduate students

Digital literacy practices in tertiary education: A case of EFL postgraduate students

“We are much closer here”: exploring the use of WhatsApp as a learning environment in a secondary school mathematics class

Influencia del uso de WhatsApp y correo electrónico en la competencia digital en el área de comunicación

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