The Impact of Mobile learning on Iraqi EFL learners’ Oral Performance and their Motivation: A Case Study of Dyala
Keywords:
Mobile-learning, Oral proficiency, Motivation, Iraqi EFL learners.Abstract
The current research has explored " the influence of Mobile learning on Iraqi EFL learners’ Oral Performance and their Motivation: A Case Study of Dyala. to this goal, 40 EFL learners were chosen based on OPT exam from Dyala city, Iraq. The participants were allocated to two homogenous groups according to the findings of OPT test. The persons whose scores were between one standard deviation above andbelow the mean score were chosen as participants of the research. However, one class was allowed to follow up their learning process using the M-learning based instruction in their learning process, downloading the related materials and follow up online learning, while the learners in the control group followed up their learning process through similar teacher- student learning. The data indicated that theparticipants in the experimental group outperformed those in the control group and consequently, the mean score for the control group is 31.05 and for the experimental one is 33.9. Besides, based on the participants' mean scores in the motivation in pre-test and posttest, the mean score for the control group was achieved 3.73 and for the experimental group equal to 6.06. The fundamental consequence of the present study will warn the educational policy makers, curriculum designers, and material creators for adoption of the E-learning-based instructions. Besides, the data also show thatmobile learning increased the learners' lexical knowledge and trained the learners how to apply this information correctly invaried circumstances.