Students learn English idioms through WhatsApp: Extensive use of smartphones

Özgür  Şahan; Mustafa Coban; Salim  Razı

doi:10.17556/jef.72045

Students learn English idioms through WhatsApp: Extensive use of smartphones

Özgür Şahan
, Mustafa Coban
, Salim Razı

Canakkale Onsekiz Mart Universitesi
Bursa Teknik Üniversitesi

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

14 Downloads (Pure)

Abstract

This study aims at investigating the effect of WhatsApp on teaching English idioms to EFL students. The data were collected from 33 B1 level students. The researchers provided the students with three idioms per week for five weeks via WhatsApp. The participants found sample sentences, shared them in their WhatsApp groups, and had discussions in English regarding the use and meaning of the idioms. Students were given an achievement test and a sub-sample group of students were interviewed to see the effectiveness of this application. The results revealed how students benefited from WhatsApp as a learning tool and their reactions to mobile learning outside the classroom context. The findings highlight the place of mobile learning in foreign language education.

Original language	English
Article number	26
Pages (from-to)	1230-1251
Number of pages	22
Journal	Erzincan Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi (EUJEF)
Volume	18
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.17556/jef.72045
Publication status	Published - 23 Dec 2016
Externally published	Yes

Bibliographical note

Erzincan University Journal of Education Faculty is a completely open access journal and the content of the journal is open to users and institutions free of charge. Users who visit the journal can read, download, copy and print the articles published in this journal without any permission from the journal publisher or article authors, as long as they refer to the article authors and the journal, as in the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-SA license agreement

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 4 Quality Education

Keywords

EFL, mobile learning, teaching idioms, WhatsApp

Access to Document

10.17556/jef.72045Licence: CC BY-NC-SA

10.17556-jef.72045-286884Final published version, 928 KBLicence: CC BY-NC-SA

Cite this

@article{332364d3cdd540dbaec9c559f7f2f6d1,

title = "Students learn English idioms through WhatsApp: Extensive use of smartphones",

abstract = "This study aims at investigating the effect of WhatsApp on teaching English idioms to EFL students. The data were collected from 33 B1 level students. The researchers provided the students with three idioms per week for five weeks via WhatsApp. The participants found sample sentences, shared them in their WhatsApp groups, and had discussions in English regarding the use and meaning of the idioms. Students were given an achievement test and a sub-sample group of students were interviewed to see the effectiveness of this application. The results revealed how students benefited from WhatsApp as a learning tool and their reactions to mobile learning outside the classroom context. The findings highlight the place of mobile learning in foreign language education.",

keywords = "EFL, mobile learning, teaching idioms, WhatsApp",

author = "{\"O}zg{\"u}r {\c S}ahan and Mustafa Coban and Salim Razı",

note = "Erzincan University Journal of Education Faculty is a completely open access journal and the content of the journal is open to users and institutions free of charge. Users who visit the journal can read, download, copy and print the articles published in this journal without any permission from the journal publisher or article authors, as long as they refer to the article authors and the journal, as in the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-SA license agreement",

year = "2016",

month = dec,

day = "23",

doi = "10.17556/jef.72045",

language = "English",

volume = "18",

pages = "1230--1251",

journal = "Erzincan {\"U}niversitesi Eğitim Fak{\"u}ltesi Dergisi (EUJEF)",

issn = "2148-7758",

publisher = "Erzincan Binali Yildirim University",

number = "2",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - Students learn English idioms through WhatsApp: Extensive use of smartphones

AU - Şahan, Özgür

AU - Coban, Mustafa

AU - Razı, Salim

N1 - Erzincan University Journal of Education Faculty is a completely open access journal and the content of the journal is open to users and institutions free of charge. Users who visit the journal can read, download, copy and print the articles published in this journal without any permission from the journal publisher or article authors, as long as they refer to the article authors and the journal, as in the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-SA license agreement

PY - 2016/12/23

Y1 - 2016/12/23

N2 - This study aims at investigating the effect of WhatsApp on teaching English idioms to EFL students. The data were collected from 33 B1 level students. The researchers provided the students with three idioms per week for five weeks via WhatsApp. The participants found sample sentences, shared them in their WhatsApp groups, and had discussions in English regarding the use and meaning of the idioms. Students were given an achievement test and a sub-sample group of students were interviewed to see the effectiveness of this application. The results revealed how students benefited from WhatsApp as a learning tool and their reactions to mobile learning outside the classroom context. The findings highlight the place of mobile learning in foreign language education.

AB - This study aims at investigating the effect of WhatsApp on teaching English idioms to EFL students. The data were collected from 33 B1 level students. The researchers provided the students with three idioms per week for five weeks via WhatsApp. The participants found sample sentences, shared them in their WhatsApp groups, and had discussions in English regarding the use and meaning of the idioms. Students were given an achievement test and a sub-sample group of students were interviewed to see the effectiveness of this application. The results revealed how students benefited from WhatsApp as a learning tool and their reactions to mobile learning outside the classroom context. The findings highlight the place of mobile learning in foreign language education.

KW - EFL, mobile learning, teaching idioms, WhatsApp

UR - https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/erziefd/issue/28295/300574

U2 - 10.17556/jef.72045

DO - 10.17556/jef.72045

M3 - Article

SN - 2148-7758

VL - 18

SP - 1230

EP - 1251

JO - Erzincan Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi (EUJEF)

JF - Erzincan Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi (EUJEF)

IS - 2

M1 - 26

ER -

Students learn English idioms through WhatsApp: Extensive use of smartphones

Abstract

Bibliographical note

UN SDGs

Keywords

Access to Document

Other files and links

Fingerprint

Cite this