USING TELEGRAM MESSENGER IN TEACHING ENGLISH IN HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
Keywords:
mobile applications, Telegram, mobile learning, English learning via telegram, voice messages, video messagesAbstract
Unfortunately, or not, technology has become an irreplaceable part of any human’s life nowadays; hardly any younger person imagines his life without mobile technologies. Certainly, technologies have been created for making people life easy, yet there are some drawbacks of those modern inventions which is impossible to struggle against. One of the negative point of technologies is being addicted to them and just wasting most time with them. The only way to combat this problem is to use those drawbacks to work for benefits; to use technology for right purposes, such as for education, for example language learning. Such learning supported with mobile devices is called mobile learning, which seems beneficial especially thanks to the unique features of mobile applications (e.g., interactivity, ubiquity, and portability) and teachers’ encouragement and feedback. The purpose of this review study is to determine whether mobile applications used in the learning of English as a foreign language are beneficial and/or effective. The results reveal that mobile learning is becoming a prominent feature of education as it is a great opportunity for foreign language learning. Its key benefits are as follows: the enhancement of the learner’s cognitive capacity, the learner’s motivation to study in both formal and informal settings, the learner’s autonomy and confidence, as well as the promotion of personalized learning, helping low-achieving students to reach their study goals. Although mobile learning seems to be effective overall, it is desirable to design, plan and implement it with caution, according to students’ needs, and to deliver multiple language skills in authentic learning environments.
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