A Study of Mobile-assisted Photo-taking for English Phrase Learning

Abstract

Owing to the rapid advance of mobile technologies, numerous studies about the use of mobile phone in education have been reported. Although most mobile phones have photo-taking function, not many research have applied this function in language learning. The study aims to explore the influence of integrating MALL photo taking activity on the learner's English phrase learning performance. A total of 116 students enrolled in a college in central Taiwan participated in this study. Participants were divided randomly into two groups: control group and experimental group. The control group is assigned the traditional sentence making activity for phrase learning. The experimental group is assigned the activities of taking photos through participants' mobile phone for phrase learning. The study primarily connected to their daily encounter with newly acquired phrases by using mobile phone to take photos and associate to the sentences they made. The college students were assigned a one-to-one basis on taking photos in their daily encounter substance in order that construct sentences with newly acquired phrases. The results indicated that the experimental group had significant gigher scores than the control group on the post test and delayed post test.