No more excuses, learn English for free: Factors affecting L2 learners intention to use online technology for informal English learning

Balouchi, Shima; Samad, Arshad Abdul

doi:10.1007/s10639-020-10307-z

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“…More importantly, learners can instill social network applications (Apps) directly, e.g., WeChat, Tencent QQ and WhatsApp, etc., to engage in informal online learning activities (Li, 2022a , b ). As a result, informal online learning has to date attracted considerable attention in language learning (e.g., Balouchi & Samad, 2021 ; Jurkovič, 2019 ), healthcare (Treasure-Jones et al, 2019 ), and teacher education (Grosemans et al, 2015 ), among others.…”

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Understanding Chinese teachers’ informal online learning continuance in a mobile learning community: an intrinsic–extrinsic motivation perspective

Meng¹,

2023

J Comput High Educ

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While extensive studies on informal online learning have been well documented to afford teachers’ collaborative learning and knowledge sharing, little is still known about their motivational factors regarding the continuance intention of informal online learning. To this end, an extended expectation confirmation model (ECM) was proposed including intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. The proposed research model and several hypotheses were empirically evaluated using questionnaire surveys with the valid data collected from 231 Chinese in-service teachers in the shared mobile learning community. The results consolidate the appropriateness of the extended ECM to explain teachers’ informal online learning continuance. Specifically, satisfaction is the major determinant of continuance intention, followed by perceived usefulness and intrinsic motivation. In addition, extrinsic motivation positively predicts perceived usefulness and confirmation. The results of this study provide some theoretical and practical implications into in-service teachers’ continuance intention of informal online learning.

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Understanding Chinese teachers’ informal online learning continuance in a mobile learning community: an intrinsic–extrinsic motivation perspective

Meng¹,

2023

J Comput High Educ

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“…This methodology has become widespread because of its many advantages. For example, studies show that encouragement of students’ engagement, high accessibility to the course material ( Sukendro et al, 2020 ; Balouchi and Samad, 2021 ), extensive access to colleagues and instructors, and encouragement of interaction and collaboration among the students contribute to better learning outcomes ( Ornellas and Muñoz Carril, 2014 ). OCL was found to add interest and to raise motivation to conduct research and study, and as such to encourage the transition from passive to active learning, and to encourage interaction and connection between the students through the sharing of the products of their study and new ideas, leading to greater social engagement and contributing to the development of higher-order intellectual skills ( Malik et al, 2017 ; Park et al, 2019 ; Yadegaridehkordi et al, 2019 ).…”

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Online collaborative Padlet-mediated learning in health management studies

Naamati-Schneider

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2023

Front. Psychol.

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IntroductionThe Padlet interactive platform constitutes a virtual online board on which users can post various types of multimedia content, such as documents, questions, comments, images, video clips, and audio clips. This platform has gained popularity in higher education yet remains ancillary in the fields of medical education and medical management.MethodsThis case study sought to initially design an intervention program that employs online collaborative learning enabled by Padlet and to assess how Health Management students perceived the activity and its ramifications for their learning. 85 students’ reflective journals were content analyzed.Resultsfive main categories stood out: (1) user experience of the platform; (2) visuality and visibility of the platform; (3) collaborative learning and OCL; (4) active online learning and student engagement; and (5) cognitive flexibility.DiscussionThis study emphasizes the importance of incorporating digital tools in education, particularly the use of the Padlet platform to facilitate collaborative learning and improve the quality of teaching and learning. It demonstrates that Padlet-mediated online collaborative learning can be an effective digital learning tool because of its ease of use and ability to accommodate both pedagogical and technological challenges.

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“…Equally important are the newly learned components and perceived advantages that are apparent with fully online teaching and learning. Positive elements can be an extension of research studies conducted before the pandemic which advocated the benefits of L2 remote online writing (Godwin-Jones, 2018;Griffith, 2014;Han & Shin, 2017) or they can be the result of studies conducted post Covid-19 where new parameters of benefits may have been manifested and experienced by L2 teachers as a result of online teaching and assessment during the pandemic (Balouchi & Samad, 2021). Shin et al (2021) affirm that L2 students find it more convenient to use various language-support resources available online.…”

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Exploring Online Writing Assessment Amid Covid-19: Challenges and Opportunities from Teachers’ Perspectives

Al-Bargi¹

2022

AWEJ

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Remote online second language (L2) writing instruction, in general, and remote online L2 writing assessment, in particular, require a holistic structural approach that results in improving students’ L2 writing, as well as offering an authentic and fair assessment of students’ L2 writing performance. The study described in this paper employed a convergent parallel mixed methods approach where the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as the purpose of the research, necessitated the adoption of this research design since it can provide the basis for answering the question: What impact did full mode online teaching have on L2 education. In the survey part of the research, 241 English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers working in Saudi Arabia participated in a custom-designed 30-item questionnaire utilizing a five-point Likert scale. In the qualitative part of the study, nine EFL teachers (four males and five females) participated in a semi-structured interview which lasted from thirty-five to fifty minutes. A detailed analysis of both the quantitative and qualitative primary data indicated that EFL teachers are aware of the importance of rubrics and standardized assessment procedures in awarding fair grades to students. Teachers also highlighted several important advantages of teaching online L2 writing remotely. However, the vast majority of teachers questioned the accuracy of online writing assessment, indicating the need for a more developed model for the post Covid-19 era. Recommendations included the adoption of unanimously suggested practices (by participating teachers) in teaching remote online L2 writing as well as mandating the presence of the students onsite during the sitting of the writing exams, thus providing the assurance of authenticity of students’ performance in the writing exams as well as the possibility to monitor all the students while they sit the exams.

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No more excuses, learn English for free: Factors affecting L2 learners intention to use online technology for informal English learning

Cited by 23 publications

References 95 publications

Understanding Chinese teachers’ informal online learning continuance in a mobile learning community: an intrinsic–extrinsic motivation perspective

Understanding Chinese teachers’ informal online learning continuance in a mobile learning community: an intrinsic–extrinsic motivation perspective

Online collaborative Padlet-mediated learning in health management studies

Exploring Online Writing Assessment Amid Covid-19: Challenges and Opportunities from Teachers’ Perspectives

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