University Students’ Perception of Mobile Phone Assisted Foreign Language Learning

Abstract

One of the approaches that is arising more and more in the field of education, and more

specifically in the foreign language field, is mobile phone assisted learning. The aim of this

paper is to investigate, through a questionnaire survey divided into 4 parts, the actual use

of mobile phones by 40 Ourense campus (University of Vigo, Spain) students, their attitudes

and the problems they face. The most significant findings show that in order to integrate the

mobile device successfully into the teaching-learning process, this should be accompanied by

specific training of users, encouraging the use of the tool and favouring attitudes, because if

the end users are not convinced of its success, this will result in a high probability of failure