Students' Silent Messages: Can Teacher Verbal and Nonverbal Immediacy Moderate Student Use of Text Messaging in Class?

Wei, Fang-Yi Flora; Wang, Y. Ken

doi:10.1080/03634523.2010.496092

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“…As an emerging fielded of research (Gao, Yan, Zhao, Pan, & Mo, 2014), studies on mobile phone policies started to find out the perception of faculty and students on mobile phone policy (Campbell, 2006) and the effectiveness of mobile phone policy (Gao et al, 2014;Hopke & Marsh, 2011;Wei & Wang, 2010). Campbell (2006) conducted a survey with ninety-six students and eighty faculty members from different disciplines to understand their perception of mobile phones use in classroom.…”

Section: Develop Effective Policymentioning

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Does multitasking with mobile phones affect learning? A review

Chen

Yan

2016

Computers in Human Behavior

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Section: Develop Effective Policymentioning

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Does multitasking with mobile phones affect learning? A review

Chen

Yan

2016

Computers in Human Behavior

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“…Surprisingly, a considerable number of students mentioned that they insist sometimes to surf the net in class for some information, but what they do actually is texting their friends. Text messaging has been researched by Wei and Wang (2010). …”

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“…The findings indicated that the students showed positive attitudes towards the use of Twitter in teaching A study on the effectiveness of text messages as deployed by college students in the presence of the instructor in class was carried out by Wei and Wang (2010). A sample of 228 students was chosen for the purpose of the study.…”

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EFL College Students’ Attitudes towards Mobile Learning

Dashti¹,

Aldashti²

2015

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Recently, cell phones have received much attention in the context of EFL/ESL learning. Mobile learning, in general, and distant learning, in particular, in educational contexts has been approached by educationalist all over the world (Hwang & Chang, 2011). Presently, countries pay ample attention to mobile learning in education. Despite the fact that devices such as cell phones might divert students' attention, yet, no one can deny their importance as high-tech educational tools. This study investigates EFL college students' attitudes towards cell phones learning. For the sake of satisfying the study's objectives, a questionnaire has been designed and randomly distributed to 300 female undergraduate students enrolled during the First Academic Term (2014/2015). The questionnaire is consisted of 3 sections and 39 items. Section 1, students' attitudes towards the usefulness of mobile learning (26 items), section 2, investigation of students' opinions towards reasons where and why they and their instructors use cell phones (12 items), and section 3, an open-ended question, asking students if they have any comments on the importance of cell phones (1 item). The questionnaire consisted 5-Point Likert type scale. Data were quantitatively analysed using SPSS, and ANOVA tests. Percentages, means, and standard deviations, were used for the sake of the analysis. The open-ended question was analysed qualitatively.

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“…In classroom settings, Wei, Wang and Klausner (2012) found texting during class partially affected a students' ability to self-regulate their attention to classroom learning. In an earlier study, Wei and Wang (2010) noted college students' ability to text and perform other tasks simultaneously during class might become a habit over time. Such habits may be defined as automatic behaviors triggered by minimum consciousness.…”

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Mobile Phones As Distracting Tools In The Classroom: College Students Perspective

Uğur¹,

Koç²

2015

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There are more than six billion users of cell phones worldwide. The need for people to connect with others frequently is apparent in our society. People use mobile phones everywhere and every time, to call and text friends, surf the web, visit social sites and attach themselves to their communication devices at all times. As the use of mobile phones has proliferated in academic settings in recent years, new challenges are faced by institutions of higher education and their faculties. Research indicates that increasing use of mobile phones by the students in the classroom causes a big distraction, although all of the college students have their own mobile phones and all of them regularly bring their devices to courses. The prevalence and inconvenient usage of mobile phones in colleges has prompted college administrators to create policies to manage mobile phone use during the school day. Also there is a lot of support for mobile phones to be banned from colleges, but such rules are not accepted or enforced in universities. Actually, college students must have the ability to consider the advantages and disadvantages of their behaviors. This study enlightens the situation about use and abuse of cell phones during courses. This paper presents the result of a study conducted on 300 college students from faculty of business administration at Sakarya University to gain a better understanding of the frequency and manner of cell phone use in college classrooms. Focusing on the use of text messaging during courses, students reported on their own and others' use of cell phones. The current research reveals that minority of the students use their smartphones during class time to enhance learning, such as using their smartphones as computers to look up relevant information pertaining to the lesson, as cameras to take pictures of information on the blackboard or screen, as calculators, and so forth. However, majority of the students use their smartphones during class time for personal use not related to learning. One of the most striking result of this study shows that majority of the students distract their classmates and they will continue to behave this way, unless the administrators take precautions. ÖzetDünya çapında 6 milyonu aşkın cep telefonu kullanıcısı bulunmaktadır. İnsanların sıkça birbirleriyle iletişim kurma ihtiyacı duyduğu gözlenmektedir. İnsanlar her zaman ve her yerde, arama yapmak, mesajlaşmak, internette dolaşmak, sosyal paylaşım sitelerini takip etmek amacıyla cep telefonu kullanmakta ve iletişim cihazları ile bütünleşik halde yaşamaktadır. Son yıllarda cep telefonlarının eğitim ortamlarında hızla çoğalmasıyla beraber yükseköğrenim kurumlarını ve fakülteleri zorlu bir durumla karşı karşıya bırakmıştır. Bu araştırmada, üniversite öğrencilerin sınıflarda cep telefonu kullanmasının dikkati büyük oranda dağıttığının, buna rağmen öğrencilerin tamamının cep telefonuna sahip olduğunun ve hepsinin cihazlarını ders esnasında da yanlarında taşıdığının altı çizilmektedir. Cep telefonlarının yaygın ve uyguns...

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Students' Silent Messages: Can Teacher Verbal and Nonverbal Immediacy Moderate Student Use of Text Messaging in Class?

Cited by 60 publications

References 39 publications

Does multitasking with mobile phones affect learning? A review

Does multitasking with mobile phones affect learning? A review

EFL College Students’ Attitudes towards Mobile Learning

Mobile Phones As Distracting Tools In The Classroom: College Students Perspective

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